The Presentation Company was founded by Janine Kurnoff and Lee Lazarus, two sisters with a passion for helping people learn to become world-class presenters

Our Story

Janine Kurnoff has always had a passion for helping people tell their stories through a medium they use all the time – presentations. In fact, when Janine was pursuing her MBA, she quickly noticed that her classmates struggled to communicate their ideas using PowerPoint. Her classmates and professors noticed her presentations as well, as they were clear, visually engaging and always told a story. Everyone wanted in – and soon she was asked to develop a class to share her approach. It happened again when Janine joined Yahoo! Inc. in global sales training. Her impromptu “Lunch and Learn” sessions were an instant success among the sales and marketing teams, and word was spreading fast. She founded The Presentation Company (TPC) in 2001.

headshots2-07457-1024x683Janine’s sister, Lee Lazarus, joined her at The Presentation Company in 2002 after being convinced that together they could change the way business presentations are created. Lee had spent years developing the branding, marketing communication, and PR strategy for two of the fastest-growing Internet and telecommunications market-research firms in Silicon Valley. As head of media relations, she understood the importance of translating mounds of data and information into clear and concise messages.

The World Takes Notice

With Janine in charge of global training and Lee overseeing sales and marketing, The Presentation Company, along with its top-notch staff, train and consult with some of the world’s top corporations, including Nestle, T-Mobile, Marriott, Facebook, Accenture, McDonald's and Boston Scientific.

Its mission is to help people – regardless of their roles – create captivating and results-oriented presentations. TPC’s workshops provide innovative visual storytelling and data visualization solutions that address the top presentation challenges: clearly communicating the value of your message and inspiring business conversations that drive people to action.

A Unique Culture

As self-avowed “mompreneurs,” Lee Lazarus and Janine Kurnoff have invested nearly 20 years in developing a company culture that cherishes personal life as seriously as it values business life. In this vein, they have recruited the best talent who, like them, choose to live, not just preach, their core values. Through these values, they have become the trusted advisors whom their clients rely on today. 

 

Our Approach

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We transform teams at the world’s top brands from data collectors into strategic communicators, and we understand that people learn best by doing – not by being lectured to. TPC’s workshops are hands on and highly experiential, with interactive exercises, coaching, and instant feedback. Participants learn and reinforce new skills in the moment, either by transforming existing presentations or creating new visual stories during the workshop.

The result? Talented businesspeople are able to move their careers forward and gain recognition as confident, persuasive, and memorable presenters – ones executives and key stakeholders want to make time for. 

Our Promise

  • Simple Visual Storytelling: Going beyond theory with practical, easy-to-apply methods
  • Presentation Toolkits: Jumpstarting visual thinking with "grab-and-go" pre-made layouts and resources that provide inspiration
  • Flexible Delivery Models: Offering training that’s face to face, virtual, or digital on-demand 
  • Customized Workshops: Infusing your voice and brand into your business narrative
  • Technological Expertise: Understanding today’s presentation technologies to speed up development

 

TPC Team

Our Culture and Values

Passion

We infuse excitement and commitment into what we do and how we do it.

Integrity

We act with honesty and trustworthiness in everything we do.

Excellence

We deliver what we promise and add value beyond what is expected.

Innovation

We believe that meaningful change results from looking at challenges and opportunities differently, and we exercise our curiosity to take risks.

Unity

We are one company, one team, and we believe succeeding together is as important as succeeding independently.

Empowerment

We believe in encouraging our customers and team to work and live their best lives.

Our Partners

  • NovoEd

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    We partner with NovoEd to build and deliver memorable, meaningful on-demand learning experiences at scale that combine relevant content and engaging learning activities.

    NovoEd’s collaborative learning platform empowers organizations to design and deliver experiential learning that accelerates business performance on a global scale. Since the company’s founding at Stanford’s social algorithm laboratory in 2012, global corporations, executive education providers, and training firms have relied on NovoEd to develop high-value capabilities through purposeful practice and application, coaching and mentorship, and group collaboration. NovoEd’s proven approach to learning connects diverse groups of learners, mentors, and leaders in a high-impact online environment, unlocking your organization’s collective knowledge and driving measurable outcomes. 

    We understand that people learn best by doing, and our partnership with NovoEd provides clients with highly experiential online learning experiences where learners can access content 24/7 and connect with others, while providing opportunities for practical application and coaching.

  • Software Productivity Strategists, Inc.

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    Software Productivity Strategists, Inc. (SPS), works with us to provide a complete design, delivery and production service for your virtual event.

    SPS brings over 10 years of virtual production and facilitation to the partnership. Their team of experts supports virtual instructors using HP Virtual Rooms, Microsoft Lync, Cisco WebEx and Adobe Connect Pro. SPS also provides recording and editing services and is a Microsoft Live Meeting and HP Virtual Rooms reseller.

    Our partnership with SPS provides everything needed for a seamless virtual event!

  • Mandel Communications

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    We have worked extensively with Mandel Communications over the past 15 years, focusing on meeting the needs of clients when it comes to developing presentations and training. Mandel has extensive experience in helping clients understand how to build great content and messaging that is listener-centric, clear and compelling. They also coach communicators on how to be confident, credible and interactive.

    Recognizing the great influence visuals have in any successful presentation (after all, over half of what we remember is visual), we work together to help clients learn how to bring their Mandel Blueprint™ content to life visually in PowerPoint as well as in virtual meeting environments such as WebEx, Live Meeting, Adobe Connect, HP Virtual Rooms, etc.

    Our partnership ensures clients receive a well-rounded presentation or training experience that covers all aspects of a great presentation—from planning to design to delivery.

Client Testimonials

The Presentation Company

Every day, people struggle to turn their data, facts, and ideas into a persuasive narrative. We help you do it quickly and with confidence. For two decades our workshops, consulting, and coaching have helped the world’s top brands to tell visual stories that powerfully connect with their audience.

Women Owned

TPC is proud to be a certified women-owned business. When you do business with TPC, you support an entire industry of diversity-based companies, which contribute over $1T to the economy.

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