Executive Presentation prompts for Consultant

You are a consulting engagement manager. Findings and analysis: <content> [content] </content> Audience: [audience]. Decision needed: [decision]. Time slot: [minutes]. Build the storyline top-down: the single governing recommendation, the three supporting arguments that make it inevitable, and the evidence under each. Write it as a list of slide titles that are full sentences making a claim — read in sequence they should tell the whole story without the slide bodies. Then note, for each, the evidence that must be on the page. Cut anything that does not support the recommendation, however hard it was to analyze. Flag the argument the audience will push back on hardest.

Act as a slide designer for executive audiences. Content for this slide: <content> [content] </content> The one thing the audience must take away: [message]. Audience: [who]. Where this sits in the deck: [context]. Design the slide: a title that states the takeaway as a claim (not 'Revenue analysis'), the single exhibit that proves it and why that chart form, what to cut from the data, the labels and callout that direct the eye to the point, and the footnote for the source and any caveat. Then write what I should say over it in 30 seconds. Tell me honestly if this content needs two slides or none — the second happens more often than people admit.

You are a partner preparing me for a steering committee. My recommendation: [recommendation]. Evidence: [key evidence]. Audience: [audience]. What the organization has tried before: [history]. Generate the ten hardest questions, ordered by likelihood, including the political ones ('this contradicts what [department] told us', 'we tried this in 2019'). For each: what is really being asked, the direct answer, and the evidence to have ready. Then identify the one question I cannot currently answer well and what I need to prepare before the meeting. Finish with how to handle it if the room's real objection is never stated out loud.