DATA STORYTELLING
TRAINING
Help your leaders turn complex data into clear strategic insights.
In-company training for enterprise teams.
Workshop + AI Presentation Assistant
The biggest issue with workshops? People forget. That's why every participant gets an AI assistant that stays with them long after the training. It handles 80% of the tedious work – content structure, formatting, layouts – so your team can focus on what actually matters: crafting the message, adding context, and nailing the delivery.
What will your team learn
during this training?
How to turn raw data into visuals that drive decisions
How to build a narrative around numbers – not just show them
How to simplify complex data without losing the point
We train and create presentations
for the largest companies around the world
DON'T SHOW RAW DATA.
TELL A STORY WITH DATA.
"I've been making charts for ten years. After one day of this training, I realized I'd never actually been communicating – I'd just been showing data. That's a very different thing."
– Senior Analyst, financial sector
Before/after analysis included – show your board real behavior change
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Scalable format – roll out to multiple teams across Europe
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No new tools – works with Office (PowerPoint & Excel) or Google Suite
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6-month mentoring included – not a one-off workshop
At SlideFormation, we are data storytelling practitioners
We use data storytelling every day when designing presentations for our clients. Most of them are large global companies, private equity funds, startups, and B2B enterprises. Every day – literally every day – we work with data. We know the proven techniques that help presenters persuade and make it easy for audiences to absorb data-driven presentations. We share the secrets of data storytelling during this training. Our trainer is therefore not a theorist, but a 100% practitioner.
What kind of data storytelling will participants be able to create?
Instead, most “data storytelling” looks like this:
Trainer: Peter Garley
Founder of SlideFormation
International expert in presentations, business communication, PowerPoint, Google Slides, storytelling, data storytelling, and public speaking
Speaker at major international conferences (twice at Present to Succeed), two-time TEDx speaker
Author of a book "Effective Presentations step-by-step"
Since 2016, he has trained over 1,000 participants in workshops and trainings
Since 2017, university lecturer at Civitas University
Together with his team, he creates presentations and conducts training for Nestlé, Mars, NBCUniversal, HSBC, Crédit Agricole, ING, Samsung, E.ON, Vattenfall, Bosch, and many other brands
Strategic advisor to L&D leaders. Piotr doesn't just teach communication; he helps organizations reform their communication culture to drive faster decision-making
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Pricing and details
2,500 EUR
This price applies to a one-day online training for a group of up to 15 people.
In-person training starts from €5,000.
All trainings are available online and on-site across Europe and the US.
Watch the coach in a data storytelling video
Our training – with top recommendations
"Piotr's course is a great way for anyone to upgrade their presentation design skills. He has put together an enjoyable, AND most importantly, effective learning experience. His combination of learning and doing is a winning formula that you'll appreciate when you apply these lessons in the form of better slide decks."
"Piotr has created a great course for anyone who wants to create professional presentations. From theory to practical PowerPoint advice, data visualisation to ideas for inspiration, Piotr can show you what you need to know. Try it. Your audiences will be glad you did!"
“The SlideFormation team are fantastic presentation designers. They’re not only PowerPoint wizards, but also have an excellent sense of style and aesthetics. We've been working together for several years, and I can always count on them – they’re fast, detail-oriented, and always on time.”
“Mr. Piotr’s course is a fantastic dose of knowledge, delivered in a very accessible way. Great examples and a clear step-by-step approach to improving how you build presentations.”
“I’m deeply impressed by how practical the course is. It offers a lot of in-depth knowledge of the tool itself. The number of techniques for presenting data is so high that after just a few minutes of practice, your presentations are transformed.”
“I highly recommend getting in touch with Piotr and joining his course. His knowledge is vast, and the way he shares it is perfectly tailored to the audience.”
“Piotr has an amazing way of explaining things. He makes every topic feel clear and easy to apply. A truly inspiring course — after it, I was able to do things that just hours earlier felt like complete magic.”
“To me, Piotr is an expert and a true enthusiast when it comes to creating presentations. He's a great speaker — you listen with genuine interest and admiration for his experience, knowledge, and passion for his craft. Highly recommended!”
„The ability to simplify
means to eliminate the unnecessary so that
the necessary may speak."
Hans Hoffmann
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Agenda of data storytelling and data visualization training
1/7
The golden rules of good data visualization
Examples of good and bad data visualizations
The most common mistakes in creating data visualizations
2/7
Effective communication using Excel and PowerPoint
Transferring data from Excel to PowerPoint
Formatting data visualizations
Removing information noise
3/7
Tables, charts, and alternative ways of visualizing data
Best practices for formatting tables
Best practices for formatting charts
Presenting data in an infographic format
4/7
Data storytelling
Creating stories based on numerical data
Providing context when presenting numbers
The most effective and simplest ways to introduce storytelling into data presentations
A series of examples and best practices
5/7
Inspiration
Creative ways to present statistical data
Live slide modifications with charts and tables
Step-by-step guide to aesthetic visualizations
6/7
AI tools
Collaboration with an AI assistant – participants receive an assistant that supports them in building the narrative
Delegating tasks to AI tools at every stage of the presentation creation process: images, text, structure
7/7
Workshops
Hands-on exercises guided by a trainer and collaborative creation of effective data visualizations
Post-training mentoring via email consultations when preparing presentations
Each participant receives trainer support for six months after the workshop
Get in touch
for a free quote
and full training detail
Peter Garley
Founder of SlideFormation
What makes this training stand out?
First and foremost, the training is led by a professional who works with presentations every day. Presentations are our daily bread. We work on them from 9 to 5, Monday through Friday — sometimes longer, sometimes on weekends. We understand the pitfalls of ineffective presentations and how, with really simple means, you can turn complicated, chaotic slides into clear, simple, and effective ones.
We focus on teaching participants to create modern presentations — and to do it quickly. Modern means not complicated, not overloaded with unnecessary decorations, and not stuck in the 90s style, which you still sometimes see in presentations. Modern means simple, neat, and visually light presentations. How to achieve this? That’s what we cover in detail in this PowerPoint training.
We treat each presentation training as a process. We don’t believe in the effectiveness of one-off trainings, so every participant is included in a mentoring program for six months. This means after the training, participants can send their presentations to the trainer, who will advise what else can be improved. This way, we guarantee that anyone truly committed to becoming a presentation master has everything they need to achieve that goal.
Our training is globally recognized. And praised.
Our trainings are chosen by companies from all around the globe.
Our unique international experience allows us to take your company’s presentations to a world-class level.
What is data storytelling?
Data storytelling is the art of persuasion in the business world with numerical data as the backdrop. Most presenters make a multitude of mistakes in this area: they display data chaotically, take screenshots from Excel, paste them onto PowerPoint slides, and at best apply some basic graphic formatting to give the data a slightly cleaner look. Usually, that is far from enough to persuade anyone of anything or to explain something clearly.
This is where data storytelling comes in. It is a narrative framework that provides specific guidelines for how a data-driven presentation should look. Data storytelling is a set of communication techniques that allow you to turn a chaos of numbers into a coherent, clear, and engaging story.
Can you overdo data storytelling?
From experience, we know you can. Many presenters fall into the trap of diving too deep into the "storytelling" side and ignoring the "data" side. Instead of a business presentation grounded in numbers, what comes out is something closer to a motivational speech or a TED talk. There is plenty of interesting narrative, but little substance and little data.
The opposite extreme is equally common: presenters cram their slides with an overwhelming amount of data and forget to connect it with a coherent, concise, and simple narrative. The result? A complicated message that the audience simply cannot follow.
The art of data storytelling lies in finding the right balance between data and storytelling. Our data storytelling training teaches you exactly how to maintain that balance.