About Ellen Finkelstein

Ellen Finkelstein is a recognized expert, speaker, trainer, and best-selling author on PowerPoint, presentation skills, and speaking. Her articles have appeared in numerous magazines, newsletters, and blogs.

She is a PowerPoint MVP (Most Valuable Professional), a Microsoft award for experts in its product who contribute to the user community, one of only 18 in the United States.

Her website offers a huge assortment of tips, techniques, tutorials, and articles on these topics.

She also teaches speakers, writers, and experts to get their Knowledge out to the world with an knowledge-based online business at ChangetheWorldMarketing.com.

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Training, coaching, and consulting

Ellen conducts training, in the form of workshops and webinars, that help people present more effectively. She also offers coaching and consulting. The result is more sales, more success, and happier audiences. Read more about training, coaching, and consulting and watch two of her presentations.

Speaking and training topics

Ellen has been recognized as a thought-leader in the field of presenting for over 10 years. Some of the topics she has spoken on are:

Using PowerPoint for Best Educational Outcomes (see video of excerpts below)
How to Prevent Death by PowerPoint
Quick Makeovers with the Tell 'n' Show(SM) Method of Slide Design
Presenting to Persuade and Motivate
Presenting to Teach and Inform
PowerPoint for Low-Cost Training
Advanced Animation and Graphic Techniques
Cater to Your Audience with Audience-Centered Presentations

Books

As a best-selling author, Ellen's books have sold over 300,000 copies and been translated into over 14 languages. Some of her books are:

Slide Design for Non-Designers
12 Steps to Become a Charismatic Speaker
The Lost Art of Persuasion
101 Tips Every PowerPoint User Should Know
7 Steps to Great Images
AutoCAD 2015 and AutoCAD LT 2015 Bible
PowerPoint For Teachers: Dynamic Presentations and Interactive Classroom Projects (with Pavel Samsonov)

Some of her online training programs are:

Ellen's articles on PowerPoint have appeared on Microsoft's website as well as in Presentations magazine, Presentation Xpert, PC Pitstop, Indezine, and Slideshare.net, among others. Her articles on AutoCAD have appeared on Autodesk's website, in Inside AutoCAD, and others.

What people say about Ellen Finkelstein's training and consulting

"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

"Ellen's tips on how to give an effective sales presentation incorporating PowerPoint was very lucid and valuable for our women professionals monthly meeting. Ellen has clearly thought through the mechanics of selling and buying and offered practical advice which I know our members will be incorporating in their presentations." - Helen Foster-Grimmett, Founder and VP, Enlightened Communications Int'l.

"Ellen Finkelstein presented to our faculty the latest, well-researched principles of teachingwith Microsoft PowerPoint and other presentation software. Comments from numerous faculty indicated that her presentation was one of the two or three most useful presentations given. Several faculty said it changed entirely their approach to using presentation software in the classroom." -Chris Jones, PhD, Chair, Department of Education, M.U.M.

"How to Do Everything With Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007 is yet another winner by Ellen Finkelstein. ….wonderful real world examples on how to use ordinary features in interesting ways to give your presentations some pizzazz.” - Wendy Russell, About.com: Presentation Software

"I want to tell you that that was the best training session I've ever experienced. Thank you! " - Sherri Mellinkoff

"Ellen, I wanted to email you with some feedback I got just today from a presentation I prepared last week for someone here in my office. I started working with PowerPoint about three months ago and I have your website to thank for getting me started in the right direction. I invested in the latest Webinar series and I actually used a couple of new things I learned in the first one (June 1). This is where accolades put the rubber to the road – my skills are helping to generate money for my firm by making professional and interesting presentations and I’m a big part of that – thanks to you! 'I have to particularly acknowledge Maril for awesome PowerPoint design under a tight deadline -- it was very professional and gave a good impression.' This was like music to my ears. Thank you, Ellen, for your website, books and all that you provide to help make us better." -Maril R.

"Your articles and training information are great." - Paul S.

"Your PowerPoint newsletter is extremely informative and helpful!" - D. Terencio

"I enjoyed your article and used many of your suggestions for my second speech at my Toastmaster's club. Prior to reading your article, I had designed a text-heavy slide show that included a colorful background. Based on your advice I changed my entire PowerPoint presentation so that there were only 7 simple slides with powerful graphics. The slides worked! The audience wasn't distracted by the slides and I felt in control of the presentation instead of the PowerPoint slides controlling my speech." -Melissa Kew

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