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ESSENTIALS COURSE EARLY ACCESS
Your ideas are strong.
Your presentations should be too.
Start building decks that get things approved — and open doors you didn't know were there 🚀.
Mid and senior professionals in industrial and B2B companies spend years developing technical expertise — then present it in ways that lose the room. This course fixes that. A complete methodology for building presentations that get decisions made and careers noticed. Developed inside a Fortune 500 company. Not a consulting firm.
€200m
Scope of approved strategy decks behind this course
12+
Years at Schneider Electric Industrial Automation
100s
Executive presentations built, reviewed, and refined
🔒 EARLY ACCESS PRICE — CLOSES AT 50 SIGN-UPS
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By "Reserving my spot", you join the waitlist and lock in your early access price permanently. You will receive a link and email to access the Executive Deck Review Checklist PDF hosted on Google Drive. You will be emailed with information about the course. No payment now.
Sound familiar?
"Let's revisit this next quarter." The idea was good. The deck didn't produce a decision. The initiative died in the queue.You open PowerPoint before you know what you're trying to say. By slide 8 the room has lost the thread.Every presentation course you've found was built for consultants. They present to clients. You present to your own VP. Different beast entirely.Colleagues with weaker ideas move faster, because they present with clarity. You've seen it. They get the high-profile projects and exposure. This is a skill. Nobody taught you to build it.I know these moments. I've lived them.
What changes after this course
You write your core message in one sentence before opening PowerPoint
Your storyline guides the executive to a decision — not more questions
Your slide titles tell the complete story when read in sequence
You catch structural problems yourself before the room does
You become the person your organisation turns to when the stakes are high
Why I built this
In my first year at Schneider Electric, I watched a brilliant engineer present a €3M product initiative to the VP. Strong idea. Solid data. The VP said: "Interesting. Let's schedule a follow-up."It never got approved.The problem wasn't the idea. He'd built a presentation about the product — not about the decision the VP needed to make. Nobody in the room knew what they were being asked to approve.I spent 12 years after that building decks that had to work. C-level reviews, €200M initiatives, M&A presentations, product launches across 45 countries. I learned that the difference between a deck that gets a decision and one that gets a follow-up has nothing to do with the slides. It starts before you open PowerPoint.I also noticed something else. The people who moved fastest weren't always the sharpest technically. They were the ones who could translate complex thinking into a clear ask, at the right moment, in front of the right people. That skill opened doors I didn't expect.I never found a course that taught this from inside a company like Schneider. So I built it.
Three things most courses never teach
Your problem isn't the slides. It's the message.
Most people open PowerPoint and start filling slides. The result is a presentation structured around what they know — not what the audience needs to decide. Write your core message in one sentence before touching a slide. That one step changes everything.Your executive has 8 minutes. Build for that.
C-level audiences scan titles, find the conclusion, and decide whether to engage. If your slide titles don't tell the story on their own, you've lost half the room. The action title — a full sentence stating the conclusion — is the single most visible difference between an amateur deck and a professional one.Build the ghost deck before you build the deck.
Slide titles only, no content. Read in sequence, they should tell your complete argument. If they don't hold together as a narrative, no amount of design or data will save the real deck. Top strategy teams use this. Almost nobody teaches it.
ApprovedStrategy Essentials Course
7 MODULES ON-LINE TRAINING · ~4 HOURS · SELF-PACED · LIFETIME ACCESS
Define the message — one sentence before you open PowerPoint
Structure the content — MECE logic, what belongs in the deck vs the appendix
Build the storyline — a constructed message, not a data dump. Action title discipline
Choose slide templates — 6 slide types and when to use each
Assemble the deck — Section logic, exec summary, appendix, the read-through test
Visual polish — alignment, colour, data viz without design school
Review and finalise — self-review checklist, stakeholder feedback, version control
✅ 30-day money-back guarantee | 🔄 Free updates included
🔒 Early spots remaining: 47 of 50 — closes permanently at launch
By "Reserving my spot", you join the waitlist and lock in your early access price permanently. You will receive a link and email to access the Executive Deck Review Checklist PDF hosted on Google Drive. You will be emailed with information about the course. No payment now.
EARLY ACCESS BONUSES — NOT AVAILABLE AFTER LAUNCH
📋 The Executive Deck Review Checklist
Delivered immediately on sign-up. Use it before every high-stakes presentation to catch structural problems before the room does.
🤖 AI Prompt Toolkit
Works inside Copilot, Claude, or whatever your IT team has approved. Delivered on course completion. No procurement, no IT request.
💬 Live Q&A with Arvin
Session for founding members only, after course launch.
Built from real decks, not theory
I'm Arvin Pitt. I spent 12 years at Schneider Electric's Industrial Automation division, a €2bn business unit, finishing as Director of Strategic Marketing.In that role I built C-level strategy decks on initiatives up to €200M. I made presentations for Group VPs, presented to ExCom members. I worked on M&A and partner due diligence where the deck we walked into the boardroom with was the difference between a deal and a pass.Before that I managed the full product lifecycle for seven digital transformation software products, presenting at Hannover Messe and SPS Nürnberg to audiences that included our largest customers and our competitors. And before that I was Global Training Manager, running programmes in English and French for thousands of distributors, sales teams, and technical professionals across four continents.I'm also an engineer. BE (Hons, 1st Class), University of Waikato. PMP. INSEAD leadership programme. HEC/École Polytechnique AI programme.I didn't learn to present at a business school. I learned it by doing it, repeatedly, in rooms where the stakes were real.
This course is built for you if...
You work in industrial or B2B technology
Manufacturing, energy, automation, digital technologies — and you present upward to your own leadership, not outward to clients.
You were trained technically and moved into a commercial or strategic role.
Engineer, scientist, systems specialist... you have deep expertise but were never taught to translate it for a boardroom
You need decisions, not follow-ups
Budget approvals, initiative sign-offs, driving transformation, strategy adoption.
You want a methodology, not tips
Not slide design. Not PowerPoint shortcuts. Not public speaking coaching. The thinking that comes before PowerPoint.
Reserve your early access
🔒 Places remaining: 47 of 50
Early access pricing closes permanently at 50 sign-ups.
By "Reserving my spot", you join the waitlist and lock in your early access price permanently. You will receive a link and email to access the Executive Deck Review Checklist PDF hosted on Google Drive. You will be emailed with information about the course. No payment now.
Frequently asked questions
I already know the Pyramid Principle — is this just that?
No. The Pyramid Principle is one technique in Module 3. This course covers the full journey — message, structure, storyline, slide types, assembly, polish, review — using examples from industrial and B2B strategy, not consulting case studies.How is this different from courses built for consultants?
Very different. You present upward to your own VP. The political context, the relationship history, and the success criteria are completely different. Every comparable course was built by consulting alumni for consulting audiences. This one was built from inside a €2bn industrial business unit.Can I use the AI prompts with my company's approved tools?
Yes. Plain text prompts — paste them into Copilot, Claude, ChatGPT, or whatever your IT team has signed off. No new tools, no procurement, no IT request.Will this actually help my career, or just help me build better slides?
Both — and the career impact lasts longer. The people who move fastest in large industrial organisations aren't always the sharpest technically. They're the ones who can translate complex thinking into a clear decision at the right moment. Getting your next initiative approved is the immediate outcome. Being known as the person leadership calls on when it matters — that's the career outcome.My company should pay for this — how do I get it approved?
They probably should.I can give you a short email template to send to your manager or L&D team. In practice: if it looks like a quick yes, go for it. If there's friction, at $97 it's worth self-funding. The return starts with your next presentation.I don't have a big presentation coming up right now. What if I don't find it useful?
Good. That's the best time to build this skill — before you need it urgently. The people who present with confidence didn't develop it the week before the board meeting.What if I don't find it useful?
30-day money-back guarantee. Email me directly and I'll refund you within 48 hours. No forms, no process.
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