What DJs Can Teach Us About Presenting Ideas and Standing Out

Carl Cox's DJ philosophy - think two tracks ahead, create unique blends - shows how standing out requires unexpected combinations.

Teaching with GPT: Building a Digital Persona That Thinks, Guides, and Surprises

Building a custom GPT for Columbia students means designing personality, setting boundaries, and creating 50+ rules for strategic learning.

The Power of a Great Question: Unlocking Worlds, One Inquiry at a Time

Great questions need design, timing, delivery, and follow-through - like a billiard break that opens up every ball perfectly.

The Blank Slide Shuffle

Scott Harrison went pitch black mid-keynote - using a blank slide to mark rock bottom, ramp tension, refocus attention.

Understanding the Presentation Spectrum

Presentations live on a spectrum - performative keynotes at one end, decision-driven budget reviews at the other. Most work sits middle.

Why David Marchese's skills remain underrated

NYT's David Marchese gets celebrities to reveal hidden lives - unusual questions, pushback, overcoming the desperate desire to be liked.

Christopher Nolan's 26 principles for creative work

Christopher Nolan's 26 principles for creative work - constraints breed resourcefulness, flip ideas, mute the world then build your own.

Introducing the Presentation Elevation Tool

A free tool packed with unconventional prompts to help you get unstuck

What's Your Presenter Type?

Our free self-assessment tool will help you level up your presentation skills

Why 6 is the magic workshop number

What people really want from new technology

They don't want features, or even benefits. It's about something more human

Storytelling & Narrative: What's the difference?

It's subtle, but incredibly important

Alec Baldwin's secret to great conversations

3 flavors of workshop