Level Up Your Presentation Skills
Level Up Your Presentation Skills!
4-Part Live Virtual Workshop Series, October-November 2025
- October 14: Getting Started and Storytelling Skills (2 hours)
- October 21: Building Powerful Slides (2 hours)
- October 28: Presentation Skills (2 hours)
- November 12: Pulling it all together (3 hours)
- Early Bird: $325 register by September 12, 2025 and save!
- Standard: $395 after September 12, 2025
Presentations can open doors or quietly close them. The difference often comes down to more than just your content. The most powerful presentations connect with the audience, tell a story that matters, and use visuals that make the message stick.
If you’ve ever wished you could feel more confident — whether speaking in front of a team, a board, a client, or a conference crowd — this workshop series is for you. Over four live, interactive sessions, you’ll learn how to plan, design, and deliver presentations that get noticed and get results.
By the end of this workshop series, you will:
- Create presentations that are clear, memorable, and visually powerful
- Tell stories that connect with your audience — whether you have 3 minutes or 30
- Design slide decks that reinforce your message instead of distracting from it
- Deliver your ideas with confidence, presence, and authenticity
- Apply practical techniques for engaging, persuading, and inspiring any audience
This isn’t a passive webinar. It’s a guided, supportive space where you’ll practice, experiment, and grow alongside others who want to level up their communication skills. You’ll leave with practical tools you can use in your very next meeting or conference talk.
Here's what you'll learn
Join us for a workshop that goes beyond the slides, and helps you develop yourself and your career.
This is a workshop series. When you sign up, you get all 4 sessions. Sessions will be taught live over Zoom and will include hands-on exercises and break out room discussions. All of this for less than $100 per live session — far less than a single day at most professional conferences — and an investment that pays off every time you present.
Session 1: Getting Started, Storytelling Skills (2 hours)
October 14, 2025
9:00am to 11:00am (Pacific/Arizona*) - 10:00am to 12:00pm (Mountain) - 11:00am to 1:00pm (Central) - 12:00pm to 2:00pm (Eastern)
We’ll start with the foundations: understanding your audience, finding your purpose, and weaving storytelling into every presentation. Learn how to frame your message so it resonates and motivates action.
Session 2: Building Powerful Slides (2 hours)
October 21, 2025
9:00am to 11:00am (Pacific/Arizona*) - 10:00am to 12:00pm (Mountain) - 11:00am to 1:00pm (Central) - 12:00pm to 2:00pm (Eastern)
Turn your story into a slide deck that works for you, not against you. We’ll cover design principles, color choices, typography, and how to use visuals instead of bullet-heavy, text-ridden slides.
Session 3: Presentation Skills (2 hours)
October 28, 2025
9:00am to 11:00am (Pacific/Arizona*) - 10:00am to 12:00pm (Mountain) - 11:00am to 1:00pm (Central) - 12:00pm to 2:00pm (Eastern)
Bring your presentation to life. We’ll explore voice, body language, pacing, audience interaction, and how to handle questions with confidence.
Session 4: Pulling it all together - Lightning Talks (3 hours)
November 12, 2025
9:00am to 12:00pm (Pacific) - 10:00am to 1:00pm (Mountain/Arizona*) - 11:00am to 2:00pm (Central) - 12:00pm to 3:00pm (Eastern)
This is where it all comes together. You’ll deliver a short presentation to your peers, get constructive feedback, and leave knowing you can present anywhere, anytime, with confidence.
Ready to Level Up Your Presentations Skills?
*Note: Daylight Saving in the U.S. ends on November 2, 2025. Arizona does not observe Daylight Saving - Arizona time is the same as Pacific Daylight Time for the first 3 sessions, the last session, on November 4, will be one hour later due the switch back to Standard Time.
Instructors
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Eva Reid, MPA, GISP has over 25 years of experience in geospatial technologies, data, and data governance. She has worked in local, state, and federal government as well as the private sector. Eva is passionate about supporting women in technology through personal and professional development opportunities. Beyond professional and personal projects, Eva is an avid gardener and kayaker.
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Jami Dennis, GISP, is passionate about data visualization and helping others improve how they communicate through visuals. She teaches workshops on visualization, storytelling, and presentation skills.
With thirty years of experience in GIS, socio-economic research, and data analysis, Jami brings a broad and deep skill set to her work. Her background includes expertise in GIS for transportation, database development, graphic design, and web development. She spent twenty-five years working in state and regional government in Arizona before before moving to private practice. Jami is the owner of Geodetic Analysis LLC, where she now provides GIS, data analysis, and data visualization services. She is also the author of GIS for Dummies (2nd Edition).
