Instructor
Tom Fragale
This session is a practical, hands-on guide to using Claude - Anthropic's powerful AI assistant - to plan, write, structure, and refine Microsoft PowerPoint presentations more quickly and effectively than ever before.
Whether you build presentations occasionally or rely on them as a core part of your professional role, this session will permanently change how you approach every deck you create.
We begin with a clear introduction to Claude and how it works alongside PowerPoint. Participants will understand what Claude can do for presentation creation, how to access it as part of their workflow, and why its advanced writing and reasoning capabilities make it uniquely effective for the specific demands of slide-based communication.
The first major skill covered is presentation planning and outlining. Participants will learn how to describe their topic, audience, and objectives to Claude and receive a complete, logically structured presentation outline in return - including suggested sections, slide titles, and content flow. This alone eliminates the most paralyzing part of presentation creation: figuring out where to start and how to organize your ideas.
From there, the session moves into content generation. Participants will learn how to use Claude to write slide titles, bullet points, and body content that is clear, concise, and calibrated for their specific audience. Whether you are presenting to a board of directors, a room of technical specialists, or a group of potential clients, Claude helps you find exactly the right words and the right level of detail for every slide.
Speaker notes and talking points are another powerful application covered in this session. Many professionals struggle to speak confidently off their slides - Claude can generate detailed, natural-sounding speaker notes that help you deliver your presentation with authority and ease, even on topics where you are still building your expertise.
The session also covers rewriting and improving existing presentations - using Claude to sharpen messaging that feels vague, cut content that is overloaded, improve the logical flow of a deck, and elevate the overall quality of slides that were built quickly under deadline pressure.
A particularly valuable skill covered in this session is transforming existing documents into presentations. Participants will learn how to feed a report, a proposal, or a set of meeting notes to Claude and have it generate presentation-ready content - a workflow that saves enormous amounts of time for professionals who regularly need to turn written work into slide decks.
Narrative and storytelling techniques are also addressed, with Claude helping participants craft the kind of compelling through-line that makes a presentation memorable and persuasive rather than just informational.
Throughout the session, practical prompting techniques are taught in the context of real PowerPoint tasks, giving participants the skills to communicate clearly with Claude and get slide-ready content on the first try.
Participants will leave this session with a completely new approach to building PowerPoint presentations - one that is faster, less stressful, and consistently produces better results.
How many hours have you spent staring at a blank PowerPoint slide, unsure how to start, what to say, or how to make your message land the way you intend? For most professionals, building a presentation is one of the most dreaded tasks on their to-do list. It takes far too long, the results are often underwhelming, and the pressure of knowing that your audience will judge both your content and your credibility makes it even harder.
A weak presentation can cost you a deal, a promotion, or the confidence of your leadership team. A great one can open doors, win clients, and establish you as someone who communicates with clarity and authority. The difference between the two often comes down to the quality of the content, the strength of the narrative, and the precision of the language - and that is exactly where Claude excels.
Right now, professionals who use Claude to build their PowerPoint presentations are finishing in a fraction of the time it used to take. They are walking into meetings with better-structured decks, sharper messaging, and more confident talking points. They are transforming dense reports into clean, compelling slides in minutes. They are tailoring their presentations for different audiences without starting from scratch every time. If you are still building presentations the old way, you are spending far more time and energy than you need to - and likely getting less impressive results.
The good news is that using Claude for PowerPoint requires no technical skills, no design background, and no complicated setup. This session gives you everything you need to start using Claude to build better presentations immediately. You will walk away with practical techniques, real examples, and the confidence to use Claude as your personal presentation coach and content generator for every deck you build going forward.
Stop dreading your next presentation. Attend this session and discover how Claude makes PowerPoint faster, easier, and far more effective - every single time.
