Executive
Presentation Skills®
Build clearer presentations and deliver them with greater confidence, credibility, and impact.
Communispond’s flagship presentation skills program helps business professionals organize audience-focused messages, strengthen their presentation presence, use visuals effectively, and handle important questions with confidence.
Build the Message. Deliver It with Impact.
Executive Presentation Skills develops both sides of effective presenting. Participants learn how to organize a clear, audience-focused message and how to deliver it with confidence, credibility, and presence.
Build a Clearer Presentation
Participants use a practical planning process to organize ideas, shape persuasive messages, and create visuals that support the presentation rather than distract from it.
- Analyze the audience and presentation environment
- Define a clear objective and desired audience response
- Organize ideas using a persuasive presentation structure
- Use storyboarding to develop the presentation
- Incorporate business stories with purpose
- Create and use visuals more effectively
- Develop stronger beginnings and endings
Deliver with Greater Impact
Repeated practice, video review, and targeted coaching help participants strengthen the physical and vocal skills that create confidence, credibility, and audience connection.
- Strengthen presentation presence and credibility
- Manage nervousness with Eye-Brain Control®
- Use stance, gestures, and movement purposefully
- Speak with greater confidence and expressiveness
- Handle questions using a structured Q&A process
- Adapt presentations for alternative environments
- Apply coaching during multiple recorded presentations
Presentation Skills That Create Lasting Change
Executive Presentation Skills combines practical methods, repeated application, recorded practice, and individualized coaching. Participants leave with skills they can continue using in presentations, meetings, briefings, and other important business situations.
Greater Confidence
Present ideas with more control, comfort, and conviction in both planned and high-pressure situations.
Clearer Messages
Organize ideas so audiences can understand the message, remember the key points, and take the intended action.
Stronger Credibility
Communicate with the preparation, presence, and composure expected in important business conversations.
Greater Audience Impact
Use delivery, visuals, stories, and interaction to strengthen audience attention and engagement.
Practical, Lasting Skills
Apply repeatable tools and techniques that support continued improvement well beyond the course.
An Interactive Course Built Around Practice
Participants learn a practical method, apply it immediately, receive targeted feedback, and practice again. This repeated cycle helps turn presentation concepts into skills participants can use after the course.
Learn a Practical Method
Participants are introduced to structured tools for planning, organizing, and delivering effective presentations.
Apply the Skill
Participants use each method in exercises based on realistic presentation and business communication situations.
Record and Review
Recorded practice helps participants see their current habits, recognize progress, and identify specific opportunities to improve.
Receive Targeted Coaching
The facilitator provides practical, individualized feedback and in-the-moment coaching throughout the program.
Practice Again
Participants apply the feedback in later exercises to strengthen performance and reinforce lasting behavior change.
Four Recorded Takes. Multiple Opportunities to Improve.
Participants can compare their baseline performance with their final presentation, see how their skills develop, and leave with a clearer understanding of what to continue practicing.
Designed for Business Professionals at Every Level
Executive Presentation Skills is appropriate for professionals who need to organize ideas clearly, communicate with credibility, and deliver effective presentations to small or large groups.
Individual Contributors
Professionals who need to explain ideas, share expertise, or influence decisions across the organization.
Managers and Team Leaders
Leaders responsible for communicating priorities, recommendations, progress, and organizational initiatives.
Technical Experts
Subject-matter experts who need to make complex information clear, relevant, and understandable.
Sales and Client-Facing Professionals
Professionals who present recommendations, proposals, solutions, and business cases to customers or stakeholders.
High-Potential Employees
Emerging leaders preparing for greater visibility, responsibility, and communication demands.
Senior Leaders and Executives
Leaders who need to communicate with clarity and presence in high-visibility or high-stakes situations.
Choose the Format That Works for Your Team
Both formats combine presentation development, delivery skills, recorded practice, and facilitator coaching. Select a format and expand any module to explore the agenda.
Build the Foundation
Participants identify their goals, explore the elements of a strong presentation, and establish a starting point.
- Course introduction and personal goals
- Elements of a great presentation
- Baseline presentation recording
- Private individual review
- Powerful presentation presence
- Eye-Brain Control®
- Balanced stance and purposeful gestures
- Confident vocal delivery
- Recorded skills practice and coaching
- Positioning and audience connection
- Clearing text, images, graphs, and charts
- Think-Turn-Talk
- Transitions between visuals
- Practice using visuals with coaching
- Audience and presentation background
- Strong beginnings, middles, and endings
- Storyboarding
- Business Storytelling Method™
- Visual selection and design
Apply and Strengthen
Participants learn and practice a structured process for managing questions confidently and clearly.
- Invite and select questions
- Listen and repeat or rephrase
- Respond clearly
- Wrap up the exchange
- Coached Q&A practice rounds
- Business briefings
- Recorded briefing practice
- Seated presentations
- Presenting from a tablet
- Virtual presentation techniques
- Virtual Q&A
- Final full presentation recording
- Individual coaching and review
- Personal goal review
- Continued practice planning
- Communispond Digital reinforcement
Strong Presentation Presence
3.5 Hours- Personal presentation goals
- Elements of a great presentation
- Baseline introduction recording
- Peer feedback through private chat
- The three Vs of presentation presence
- Potential power drains
- Eye-Brain Control®
- Balanced stance
- Recorded practice and coaching
- Speak with confidence
- Volume and vocal inflection
- Gesture with purpose
- Integrated presentation-presence skills
- Third recorded take
Visuals and Message Development
3.5 Hours- Four keys to using visuals effectively
- Clear text and images
- Clear graphs and charts
- Clear complex visuals
- Transitions between visuals
- Think-Turn-Talk
- Positioning around visuals
- Recorded visual-practice exercise
- In-the-moment facilitator coaching
- Persuasive Presentation Planning Process™
- Presentation background and beginning
- Storyboarding and building blocks
- Business Storytelling Method™
- Visual design and the 4×4 rule
- Presentation ending and call to action
Application and Final Practice
3.5 Hours- Invite and select questions
- Listen and repeat or rephrase
- Respond and wrap up
- Practice with challenging questions
- Full presentation delivery
- Application of the complete skill set
- In-the-moment facilitator coaching
- Private peer feedback
- Fifth recorded take
- Briefing definition and format
- Gain attention and state the core message
- Provide evidence and recommend action
- Sixth recorded take
- Personal goals and reinforcement tools
Choose the Right Training Format
Executive Presentation Skills can support organization-wide development, intact teams, small groups, and individual professionals. Our team can help you select the format that best fits your goals and audience.
Private Corporate Training
Bring Executive Presentation Skills to your organization for a dedicated group of employees, leaders, or high-potential professionals.
- Available in person or live online through EPS Anywhere
- Delivered privately for your organization
- Up to 12 participants for EPS
- Up to 10 participants for EPS Anywhere
- Can be aligned with your business context and goals
Public Classes
Individuals and smaller groups can attend scheduled Executive Presentation Skills or EPS Anywhere classes with professionals from other organizations.
- Scheduled in-person sessions in select U.S. cities
- Live online EPS Anywhere sessions
- Instructor-led and highly interactive
- Ideal for individuals or a small number of employees
- Registration is completed through the upcoming classes page
Additional ways to develop presentation skills
One-on-One Presentation Coaching
A strong option when group training is not the right fit or only one or two professionals need focused development.
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Explore trainer certification →What Participants Say About Executive Presentation Skills
Participants consistently highlight the practical tools, individualized coaching, and immediate application built into the program.
Excellent course with very practical tips and tools which I can apply to my work on a daily basis.
Great content and instruction; was very helpful and eye-opening on how to come across more professional and confident.
This was a great class I didn't realize I needed. Looking forward to practicing skills learned in my next presentation.
Handle Questions with Greater Confidence
A strong presentation does not end with the final slide. How a presenter listens, responds, and manages audience questions can significantly affect credibility and the overall impact of the message.
Executive Presentation Skills FAQs
Find answers to common questions about the course format, audience, recorded practice, delivery options, and corporate training.
Executive Presentation Skills is Communispond’s flagship, facilitator-led presentation training program. It helps business professionals organize audience-focused presentations and deliver them with greater confidence, clarity, credibility, and impact.
Executive Presentation Skills combines both presentation creation and physical delivery skills in one integrated program. Participants learn how to plan, organize, and design a presentation while also strengthening presentation presence, voice, gestures, visuals, and Q&A skills.
Communispond also offers separate one-day programs focused more specifically on presentation creation or physical delivery.
Yes. EPS Anywhere is the live online version of the program. It is delivered in three 3.5-hour, facilitator-led sessions across approximately 1.5 days. Three half-day sessions may also be available for private corporate groups.
Although the course is delivered virtually, EPS Anywhere develops the skills participants need to deliver effective face-to-face business presentations.
The standard Executive Presentation Skills program is delivered over two days, with 6.5 hours of instruction each day excluding breaks. A class may include up to 12 participants with one facilitator.
EPS Anywhere includes three 3.5-hour sessions and allows up to 10 participants.
Yes. Recorded practice is an important part of the learning experience. The two-day EPS program includes four recorded takes, while EPS Anywhere includes six. Participants use the recordings to review their performance, identify improvement opportunities, and observe their progress.
Yes. Communispond can deliver EPS or EPS Anywhere privately for corporate teams. The delivery format and examples can be aligned with the organization’s audience, communication needs, and business context.
Individuals and smaller groups can also attend scheduled public sessions through the upcoming classes page.
Build More Confident, Credible Presenters
Talk with our team about bringing Executive Presentation Skills or EPS Anywhere to your organization. We will help you determine the right format based on your participants, schedule, and development goals.
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