The best-selling, full-color guide to presentation design and delivery — now thoroughly updated to reflect the latest tools and insights

• Reach and motivate audiences through simplicity and storytelling: use slides to make your message unforgettable, not drown it out
• Transform how you think about using PowerPoint, Keynote, or any other presentation software
• Reinvigorate existing material in fresh and interactive ways that make it resonate as never before
• By Garr Reynolds, host of presentationzen.com, the Internet’s leading site for better presentation design and delivery

Everyone’s been forced to sit through terrible presentations: boring, confusing, dense, full of unnecessary clutter and effects. There’s a radically better way to reach and motivate your audience — and it starts with simplicity and storytelling. In Presentation Zen, 3rd Edition, best-selling selling author and popular speaker Garr Reynolds shows you how it’s done, using modern versions of PowerPoint, Keynote, or other presentation tools. You’ll learn how to build slides that focus your audience’s attention precisely where you want it, and illuminate and inspire people rather than burying them in facts and data. Garr’s new full-color examples, lessons, and perspectives combine proven design principles with the tenets of Zen simplicity, and help you along the path to creating and delivering cleaner, better presentations.

Reach your audience through simplicity and storytelling

Garr Reynolds, the bestselling author of Presentation Zen, is back with a third edition that covers advances in PowerPoint, Keynote, and other presentation technology. Garr tackles storytelling through slides and shares his approach to effective presentation design.

• Draw inspiration from fresh examples
• Combine design principles with Zen simplicity
• Create simpler, more effective presentations that will motivate your audiences

Garr offers techniques for cutting through the noise and distractions of modern life and truly engaging with your audiences in a meaningful way.

"Presentation Zen changed my life and the lives of my clients. The philosophy and approach so elegantly explained in Garr's book will inspire your audience. Don't even think of giving another presentation without it!"

—Carmine Gallo, author of The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs and Talk Like TED

"Garr has broken new ground in the way we think about the power of presentations, and more important, has taught an entire generation of communicators how to do a better job. Don't miss this one."

—Seth Godin, legendary presenter and author of This is Marketing

"If you care about the quality and clarity of your presentations—and you should—pick up this book, read every page, and heed its wisdom. Presentation Zen is a contemporary classic."

—Daniel H. Pink, author of A Whole New Mind and Drive