Over and over again, they make it clear that slide design exists to support the presentation narrative. Aaron Rabideau and Gabrielle Tabios are the masterminds behind the presentation visuals at Salesforce’s largest events, including the Dreamforce keynote. Sara Cattanach crafts messaging and content for the keynote presentations at Salesforce World Tour experiences, and coaches speakers to deliver great presentations. In this post, you’ll learn how three Salesforce experts craft effective, impactful, and beautiful presentations. But if you show slide after slides of charts and numbers, your audience won’t hear the story you’re telling. Salesforce Admins and power users are in a unique position to help leadership understand business success metrics from reports and dashboards. This is especially key for the data-heavy presentations you create. The basis of designing and delivering an awesome presentation is to craft a story and use visuals to support and strengthen that story. It’s not about how pretty your slides are (well, it is, but that comes later). You may think to yourself, “I’m not the best at using PowerPoint - there’s got to be a better way!” You give yourself kudos for getting this far and go get some coffee. You begin by opening PowerPoint, making a title slide, putting some bullet points on the intro slide, and inserting a cute picture - and then you hit a wall. Here’s a situation we can all recall: You have to give a presentation, and it’s time to start creating the slide deck.