Recent thoughts and media appearances
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FAQ for Building a Presentation
I’ve been collecting questions I get about my thoughts on how to build a presentation. Here are, in no particular order, some of the top ones and my answers.
Does this work for every kind of presentation?
Hell no! It works well, for me, for keynotes. It works well for building talks that are presentation, performances. It will not work well for lectures and workshops. It will not work well if what you actually need is documentation. See Tufte on that one.
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Showing my work
A few weeks back I posted my 9 step process for building a presentation. I wanted to share some example of that process in action. What follows are glimpses of my “No person is an island” talk which I delivered at Defrag in November.
Step 1 - Finding the Nucleus
I had two quotes that served as the nucleus for this deck.
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The Identity Philosophers Song
With all due apologies to Monty Python and specifically Eric Idle here’s the identity industry’s version of the Philosophers Song. Many thanks to everyone who helped this effort and huge thanks to Eve Maler for all her work on this. What follows is meant with much love and respect to everyone in the industry (mentioned or not). And with that… maestro please: Jeremy Grant was a real pissant Who was very rarely stable iglazer, iglazer was a boozy beggar who could think you under the table Blakley whom could out-consume Madsen, Bradley, and Dingle Pat Patterson was a beery swine Who was just as schloshed as Cahill There’s nothing Wilton couldn’t teach ya’ Bout the raising of the wrist. Cameron himself was permanently pissed… George Fletcher, still, of his own free will, On half a pint of shandy was particularly ill. Nishant K could stick it away; Half a crate of whiskey every day. Patrick Harding, Patrick Harding was a bugger for white lightning Nash was fond of his dram, Really Dick Hardt was a drunken fart “I drink, therefore I am” Yes, Cameron himself is particularly missed; A lovely little thinker but a bugger when he’s pissed! And if none of that made sense to you, here’s the original which also might not make much sense either.
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My 9 Step Process for Building a Presentation
“How do you build a presentation?” I’ve had the question asked of me a few times recently. And I’ve had enough flights recently to spend some time thinking about the answer. As I mentioned, before I could actually answer the question I had to write this other post about clarity and empathy. Go read that and then come back. With that as context, here is my stripped down process – my 9 essential steps to building a presentation.
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Round Wheel talk from the IRM Summit
Here’s my “Do we have a round wheel yet?” talk from the recent IRM Summit in Dublin.
(This is actually the video from my version of this talk earlier in the year from a similar event in London. The Dublin video got taken offline… - IG 11/05/2026)
