In our courses we cover:

• How to be comfortable in front of an audience by learning how to appear and feel confident, cutting out filler words (like “umm”, “like”, or “you know”.) We’ll cover tips to over come speaking anxiety, and how you can confidently present at your next meeting or conference.
• Tailor a message so it’s more effective by making it more persuasive, memorable, or communicate to the right audience at the right time. Think about who is in the room and make sure that your message is hitting them.
• Apply graphic design principles to your slides. We’ll cover the 5 basic principles of graphic design, have you practice them, and get feedback on what you’ve done well and how you can continue to improve. These graphic design principles will help you learn how to be a designer for any medium (whitepapers, reports, social media posts, posters, etc.)
• Use PowerPoint (or Google slides, Canva, or Keynote) like a pro. One of my clients calls this PowerPoint Ninja training since it teaches people tips and tricks that they had no idea existed in the slide software.
• Learn storytelling techniques to help your presentation connect with your audience, move them, persuade them, and remember what you said. We’ll cover how you can use this to focus on the flow of the presentation or use a one-off story to make a point.

Throughout our training, you’ll learn how to present your content better, cut down on the technical noise, and connect with your audience. This will allow you to confidently walk into your next meeting, pitch, conference presentation, or 1:1 with your boss.

What we do
Make It Memorable helps you become a more effective communicator, whether that’s through visual design (graphic design and data visualization best practices), verbal delivery (speech coaching, public speaking, and presentation skills), or storytelling. We support you at any stage of the presentation process, from crafting the content to practicing delivery. Whether you need help designing polished slides, creating a TED Talk-style narrative, or practicing your Q&A responses, we can tailor the experience to your specific needs.

We don’t believe in one size fits all
We offer a “choose your own adventure” approach, so you only pay for the services you need. If you want to engage in the content asynchronously, you can do that. If you want a white-gloved approach where we walk you through the entire process and help you make your deck from start to finish, we can do that too.

We help make technical presentations easier to understand
Our expertise is especially impactful for technical professionals—scientists, analysts, researchers, and developers—because we know how to translate niche, technical knowledge into clear and compelling stories. Whether you’re presenting to other experts, clients, or a lay audience, we’ll help ensure your ideas stick with your audience long after your talk.

We’ve got you covered
As presentation consultants, we work with professionals across industries from educators to executives. We work with you through one-on-one sessions, pre-recorded workshops, and synchronous sessions to help you with graphic design, presentations, storytelling skills, and PowerPoint training online or in person. Whether you’re looking for a PowerPoint coach, presentation design classes, or corporate presentation training, we’ve got you covered.

Speech coaching vs. Presentation Consulting
While a speech coach focuses on delivery techniques, such as reducing filler words (“um,” “you know”), improving gestures, and addressing verbal quirks, a presentation consultant takes a more holistic approach. We do incorporate speech coaching when needed, but we find that speech habits are rarely the biggest issue in presentations. Instead, we integrate content strategy, public speaking coaching, audience engagement, and slide design. Whether you’re an educator, a scientist, a creative, or a manager seeking a communication course for managers, we provide structured support backed by communication science and the best public speaking tips we’ve learned over years of practice.

Designing for Impact
Instead of focusing on how to just make you sound better, we focus on how audiences remember and are persuaded. How you sound definitely impacts this as well, but there’s often a need to focus on how you structure your content, the design of your slides, or how your message connects through stories and examples.

Backed by Science
My goal is to help you create a more memorable and effective presentation by focusing on how people learn and process information. Through this lens, I help restructure your content, so it resonates, using principles of psychology and communication science to ensure your ideas are not just heard but retained. This goes well beyond just cutting out “ums” and adding hand gestures. It’s about crafting a message that inspires your audience to engage.

nyone who wants to present better, design more effectively, use storytelling, or simply boost their skills!

We typically work with a variety of professionals, including:

• Technical teams (scientists, researchers, postdocs, professors, developers, software engineers, data analysts, engineers, etc.)
• Creative professionals (marketers, writers, graphic designers, etc.)
• Educators (teachers, professors, e-learning developers, instructional designers, trainers, etc.)
• Teams and organizations (departments, group presentations, pitches, or proposals)

What School Never Taught You
If you’ve struggled with presenting or feel like you could improve, our workshops will change how you approach presentations forever. Attendees have often said things like, “where were you 3 years ago?” and “I went through undergrad, grad school, and worked as a professional for a decade, and I learned more about presentations in your 1 hour training than I have in the rest combined.” You’ll walk away knowing how to structure your presentations, integrate more stories and visuals, and deliver with confidence.

Teacher PD
If you’re an educator seeking professional development for educators, we have you covered. Especially if you’re a high school or higher ed instructor, you probably did not get the psychology of how we learn in your university courses. Our teacher classes online will give you the tools you need to make your lectures more memorable, which leads to better retention and recall. Our training courses for teachers cover similar content as our other presentation courses, but are online courses specifically designed for educators.

Danielle Hennis, who created these workshops has taught as an educator for over a decade and presents this content at conferences regularly. Recently, one of the attendees said, “This is what all conference sessions should be like. I’m going back and adjusting my lessons for next week based on what I learned.”

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Want to learn how to present better?

We have workshops that individuals can attend, coaching sessions, and one-on-one support. Take a look at makeitmemorable.studio/workshops/ for what we have running currently. Don’t see what you need? Reach out

Want a customized workshop?

We work with your team to create content that is customized to what you need. We can take some of our base workshops, apply examples that are specific to your team’s presentations, show what’s working well and what can be improved upon, and then have your team practice. We focus on what you need and how we can have that message stick with your team after the training is done. We’ve done one-on-ones after the workshop to make sure that the content is applicable to the team, we’ve created activities to apply to your team meeting, and we’ve helped you come up with clusters of team members to get feedback on their presentations to ensure it meets best practices. We always give out handouts that cover what we discussed to ensure your team can refer back to them when needed, and we can create just in time learning videos that your team can access when they get stuck.

We offer specialized workshops to meet professional needs, including the following:

• Are you working in Canva, Google Slides, Adobe Express, or PowerPoint and feel like your designs never come out as well as the templates? We can teach you graphic design 101: the core principles of graphic design. We offer a course that covers the essential rules of effective visuals, helping you create materials that are not only beautiful but functional. You’ll discover how to direct your audience’s attention, improve clarity, and feel confident about your designs.
• If you work in PowerPoint, we run sessions that teach advanced shortcuts, workflow tips, and tools that I guarantee you didn’t know existed to save time and reduce frustration.
• If you want to improve your public speaking skills, our workshop will help you conquer nerves, feel more confident, and give you tips and tricks on the day of the presentation.
• For those interested in using storytelling techniques, we have sessions to help you incorporate stories into presentations, no matter how technical or niche the content. We’ve worked with groups on their scientific and business storytelling, and if we can do it for these topics, you can do it for anything!

Your Team, Your Terms
Our corporate presentation training can be customized to your needs. Whether you want a single workshop or you’re developing a company-wide initiative, we can design a solution for your specific needs. We can also assist with team training or executive training presentation options for senior leaders. We offer a range of presentation skills workshops focused on content, storytelling, visuals, or delivery.

Post-training, we can assist through regular check-ins or provide team exercises for ongoing practice.

Flexible Formats, Lasting Change
We work with teams remotely or in person. Our programs range from comprehensive, year-long packages complete with deliverables and homework, to single-session hands-on workshops. For organizations looking for a cultural shift, we provide ongoing support with regular check-ins and accountability metrics to ensure our skills stick and are sustained long term.

Strategy First
For oral proposals, we begin with a brainstorming session to identify your key messages, audience, competition, story, and strategies. From there, we work with what you need.

Support That Meets You Where You Are
If you just want help with the delivery, we’ll work with you on speech coaching ensuring the way you present the content is attention-getting and engaging. If you want help with the content, we’ll work with you to ensure your presentation is memorable, persuasive, and highlights your win themes or unique selling points. If you want help with your visuals, we’ll use our graphic design skills to make sure your deck looks polished and professional, and most importantly brings your audience’s attention to the key points on the slide. Need help with all of the above? We can do that as well!

After taking our workshops, you’ll have the skills needed to be a better presenter. Whether you’re wondering how to be a good public speaker, need help overcoming your fear of public speaking, or just want to work on your speaking skills, we give you practical steps to apply immediately.

You will:

• Get tips to conquer your nerves during your next presentation
• Have a clear understanding of design adn presentation “rules”
• Gain hands-on practice
• Receive personalized feedback (depending on the package picked)
• Be able to make your content more memorable
• Learn how to highlight the key elements in your design, so those stand out to the audiene

Once you’ve learned the content and practiced the exerceises, the next step is applying these skills into your next presentation or design. Start small and add in one new piece each project.

Previous attendees have reported their newfound presentation skills:

• Helped them get promoted
• Aced their job talk, leading to new roles
• Led to better retention in their students when they applied the theory to their lectures
• led to new funding opportunities in business

Most of our workshops are online, making them accessible from anywhere! We do regularly host in-person sessions in North Carolina and are available to travel for custom client training. If you’re part of an organization or association looking for in-person public speaking workshops, please reach out on our contact page.