Training and Consulting from Ellen Finkelstein
Get training and consulting that improves your presentation skills, transforms your presentations, and gives you the tools you need to successfully deliver powerful presentations.
Training
Training takes the form of workshops at your location or online webinars. Training ensures that presenters have the skills they need to create and deliver their own presentations. We can customize the topic for your needs or you can choose from one of the following offerings:
- Communication & Presentation Skills
- How to Prevent Death by PowerPoint
- Slide Design for Non-Designers
- Present Interactivity: Your Audience Expects It!
- Animation and Video: Advanced Techniques
- Presenting to Teach and Inform: PowerPoint for Educators
- Presenting to Persuade: Effective Sales Presentations
- PowerPoint for High-Impact, Low-Cost Training
- Audience-Centered Presentations
- Presenting Scientific and Numerical Data
Contact us to find out more about training for you or your organization.
Consulting and Coaching
Consulting services focus on a specific presentation or situation. If you have a presentation that you give often, such as a sales presentation, or a high-stakes presentation coming up, contract with us to make sure your presentation is high-quality and effective.
- Consulting reviews the content, design, and delivery of a presentation, providing feedback, rewriting, makeovers, and delivery pointers
- Coaching involves intensive sessions (olten all day or over several days) that includes consulting but also provides guided practice (including videotaping) until you achieve a high level of performance
Contact us and ask how we can help you.
"Improving at presenting (with or without PowerPoint) has helped me to be taken a lot more seriously by the senior staff at work." -Melanie Perry
What People Say About Ellen Finkelstein
"Ellen's consultation was a huge help! Her answers to my questions about Powerpoint--questions for which I could not find answers in the help files--were very clear. And I appreciated the opportunity to go over an actual presentation with her. She had several very good and easily implemented suggestions. She also got me started on developing pet ideas for a couple of new, animated slides, that will really enhance the presentation. All in roughly half an hour! Thanks Ellen!" - Neil Dickie
"Ellen, I wanted to let you know that your consultation was very helpful. You showed me simple ways to make a presentation more professional and powerful without making me feel foolish. Your experience and knowledge enable you to pull ideas together quickly and put a new slant on getting to and sharing the important kernel of the story. I appreciate your time and help and would recommend you to everyone as your consultation was a great help." -Marcia Berkey
"The consulting session was remarkably successful in demonstrating, in real time, the means to enhance the effectiveness of a presentation. The discussion identified specific slide elements that can easily be altered to create a focus on the essential concepts in a lecture. Highly recommended!" -Robert Ziegenfus, PhD
"Ellen Finkelstein used Power Point slides to enhance a presentation on the most effective use of PowerPoint slides in making academic presentations: as such, she 'walked the talk,' beautifully illustrating her practical suggestions. These included tips on how the speaker can retain maximum audience attention while using slides and how the slides can increase retention of the material presented. She's a lively, confident speaker who freely shared her substantial experience." -Samuel Boothby, PhD
"I appreciated your presentation so much last week! You took a subject you were passionate about and gave us mini-lessons to empower us. I'm not working on a presentation at the moment, but I'll definitely bookmark your website and keep your contact info. It's good to know of an intuitive, organized thinker who offers professional consultations." - Deb Jansen
"“I have been a student of Ellen for about five years now, if not more.
Each product I have bought from Ellen, whether a webinar or eBook, gave a continuous improvement in my presentation skills.
During a recent consultation, Ellen took the best presentation I had ever made and showed me how to do a complete makeover on it. The result: AWESOME!” -Victor Hunt
"When Ms Finkelstein made her presentation at our Faculty Development Seminar she was head and shoulders above the other presenters. Even though the others had useful things to say and had PhDs, their presentation and depth of communication could not match hers. She was well prepared and lively and right on target with very useful advice." -Anne Dow Chairperson, Department of Mathematics, Maharishi University of Management
"Recently, when we were putting together a presentation on our homes for sale, we ... called Ellen Finkelstein and asked for her help. She zeroed in on exactly what knowledge we needed to easily create a professional-looking presentation. She knew the best way to add a voice-over, helped us download the program, and offered great tips that made the whole process easy for us. Miraculously, she did all this in a short, one-hour consultation. Consulting with Ellen made all the difference for us." -Nancy Walker and Martin Brett, Owners Vastu Design & Construction, Inc.
Phone: 641-472-1832
Ellen Finkelstein, Inc.
2010 Coral Lane
Fairfield, IA 52556
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