by Gregory Heller | Jan 8, 2026 | Episodes
The Glance Test is a simple but powerful rule for slide design: if your audience can’t understand the point of a slide within a few seconds, the slide isn’t doing its job. In this episode, I explain why slides that demand too much reading or decoding cause audiences...
by Gregory Heller | Jan 8, 2026 | Episodes
Many presentations fall apart not because the ideas are weak, but because the slides are doing too much at once. When a single slide contains multiple messages, charts, or competing points, the audience stops listening and starts decoding. In this episode, I explain...
by Gregory Heller | Dec 10, 2025 | Episodes
In this episode of Conversations on Careers & Professional Life, we go inside the Autumn Quarter Integrated Case Competition at the Foster School of Business—a one-week sprint where MBA teams analyze an acquisition case, submit a written recommendation, and...
by Gregory Heller | Nov 5, 2019 | Episodes
Rob Cottingham has 30 years of experience as a speech writer and speech coach. I’ve known Rob for nearly half that time through our attendance at the same conferences including Web Of Change and NTEN, a conference for the nonprofit sector and have always been...
