Presentations Glossary

Ilene Bergelson

Wednesday, September 4, 2019, posted by Geetesh at 12:51 pm

Ilene Bergelson
Ilene Bergelson is an NYC-based, presentation coach who loves adventure and has supported speakers from six out of the seven continents to embrace their adventurous side. Boutique firms, as well as Fortune-500 companies have sought Ilene’s expertise to optimize presentation content, increase confidence and prepare keynote speakers, panel groups and moderators alike to deliver excellence, improve outcomes through facilitated discussion, and enhance interpersonal communication within teams. Upon noticing that many brilliant people undermine their expertise by the way they communicate, Ilene developed EmpowerSpeak™ with the intention of elevating the level of effective and conscious communication in the workplace.

Here’s a list of links on Indezine.com where she has been featured:

Presentation Summit 2025: Conversation with Ilene Bergelson
September 26, 2025

Presentation Summit 2024: Conversation with Ilene Bergelson
September 23, 2024

Presentation Summit 2021: Conversation with Ilene Bergelson
August 30, 2021

Presentation Summit 2019: Conversation with Ilene Bergelson
August 23, 2019

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Theme Builder Anomalies: Themes Incompatible with PowerPoint

Wednesday, September 4, 2019, posted by Geetesh at 12:42 pm

We have seen strange things happening with Theme Builder and how it plays with PowerPoint 2010 (and PowerPoint 2011 for Mac).

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Simon Day

Wednesday, August 21, 2019, posted by Geetesh at 8:19 pm

Simon Day
Simon Day is a member of Toastmasters International, a not-for-profit organization that has provided communication and leadership skills since 1924 through a worldwide network of clubs. There are more than 400 clubs and 10,000 members in the UK and Ireland.

Members follow a structured educational program to gain skills and confidence in public and impromptu speaking, chairing meetings and time management. To find your nearest club, visit Toastmasters International.

Here’s a list of links on Indezine.com where he has been featured:

Develop Your Public Speaking: A Few Thoughts on Fear
April 29, 2020

The Art of Online Communication in Business
April 22, 2020

To Empower Others: Use the Four Cornerstones of Effective Feedback
August 21, 2019

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Theme Builder: Opening Existing Themes in Theme Builder

Tuesday, August 20, 2019, posted by Geetesh at 4:24 pm

If you already installed Theme Builder and created a new theme by playing around, you might get disappointed to learn that PowerPoint complains about the theme files you created being corrupt.

That’s because a theme you create from scratch only includes the parameters you add, and these parameters might not be complete. For instance, it is possible you added some info on how you want the backgrounds to look, but left out the part about effects, fonts, or fills. Naturally, PowerPoint expects to find information about all the parameters and thus complains that the theme file is corrupt.

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Kevin Lerner

Tuesday, August 20, 2019, posted by Geetesh at 2:42 pm

Kevin Lerner
Kevin Lerner is an experienced presentation designer and PowerPoint expert, trainer/speaker, and communications strategist. Since founding The Presentation Team in the 1990’s, Kevin has developed thousands of presentations for clients including Motorola, Comcast Cable, Office Depot, Citrix, Oracle, Johnson & Johnson, NASA, the U.S. Army, The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), as well as numerous smaller companies, professional speakers, and individuals.