Free Lunch & Learn

Bring us one slide. Leave with a clearer story.

A one-hour working session for teams that turn complex information into reports and presentations. We use your own material to show how fewer words, purposeful visuals, and story-driven charts help your audience understand, and act.

Before and after: a crowded slide becomes one clear takeaway and chart

Length

One hour

Format

Zoom or Teams

Group size

12 or more

Cost

Free

Your team’s thinking is strong. Is the story getting through?

Reports built on complex material get heavy fast. The insight is in there, but the audience has to dig for it, and your expertise feels diluted.

  • Too much information on every page
  • A narrative that’s hard to follow
  • Charts that show data but don’t make a point

What your team will learn

Three moves, practiced on your own material

We don’t teach from generic examples. We take a slide or page your team is actually working on and walk through the steps to make it clearer, live.

1

Say it with fewer words

Structure the story before the slide. Find the one point that matters, lead with it, and cut what competes with it.

2

Show it with visual structure

Use layout, hierarchy, and emphasis to guide the viewer from start to finish, so the page supports understanding instead of slowing it down.

3

Chart it to the story

Build data visualizations that tie directly to the narrative, so every chart proves the point the headline makes.

It starts with a conversation

Every Lunch & Learn is tailored. A short pre-event call is required so we understand your work and choose the right material before your team sits down.

Step 1

Pre-event call

We learn about your team, your audiences, and where your reports get stuck.

Step 2

Choose the material

You share a current slide or page. We prepare the session around it.

Step 3

The working session

One hour, on Zoom or in person depending on your location, for a group of 12 or more.

Step 4

Put it to work

Your team leaves with clear steps they can apply to the next deliverable.

Is this a fit?

Built for teams that work with complex material

If your team creates presentations and reports that guide critical decisions, and those deliverables need to be shared up the chain and acted on, this session is for you.

  • Consulting and B2B services teams
  • Insights, research, and analytics groups
  • Nonprofits and mission-driven organizations reporting to boards and funders
  • Groups of 12 or more who want a shared approach

100%

participants
elevated their
presentation skills

100%

built higher-quality
deliverables with less
stress and rework

25+

years of
communication and
design expertise

Team members in an online meeting

This program gave my team practical tools to create stronger report stories, both in how they’re written and how they come to life in presentation design. The customized training used real examples from our work, which made the concepts immediately relevant.

—Dana Colbert, Vice President, Radius

Who you’ll work with

Joy Panos Stauber

Joy Panos Stauber

Specializes in brand communications and presentation design. Her goal: that the quality of your materials reflects the quality of your thinking.

Miriam Carey

Miriam Carey

Believes in the power of story. She helps technical teams turn complexity into strategic communication.

Denise Dufala

Denise Dufala

Emmy Award–winning journalist, author, and speaker. She consults on executive presence and on-camera delivery.

Ready to give your team an hour that sticks?

Lunch & Learns are free. Book a pre-event call and we’ll talk through your team, your material, and what you want your audience to do next.