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10 Expert Tips to Create and Deliver a Killer Keynote Presentation

So you’ve got a keynote presentation coming up, and you’re hitting the books to make sure you’re armed with the best plan possible. Besides taking notes from all the greats on TED, you’re reading up about a message structure that works, and looking for the perfect template.

While it seems like you’ve got your bases covered, like all things in life, there’s always a way to streamline the planning process.

According to Aaron Weyenberg , the UX Lead for TED and a self-professed “master of slide decks,” and the wizards behind Apple’s presentation slides , there are a number of tricks of the trade that you can rely on to create a rocking keynote presentation .

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1. Do your slides last

While most keynote speakers will typically build their presentation around the structure of a template, Weyenberg says that “building your slides should be the tail end of developing your presentation.” Before working on your slides, you should put together your main message, structure, supporting points – then practice and time your presentation. The reason for this, he says, is that the presentation needs to be strong enough to stand on its own. Approaching a keynote like this requires a shift in thinking.

While a beautiful set of slides is imperative to your presentation, it should not be central to it.

Weyenberg said it best: “The slides are just something you layer over [the presentation] to enhance the listener experience.”

Observe these 2017 Google I/O keynotes, especially CEO Sundar Pichai’s – the role of the slides are to support what the speaker is saying – not the other way around.

2. Get creative with photos

Often times, presenters will be far too literal or cheesy with their image choice. Weyenberg suggests to use images that are simple, yet punchy – and pairs nicely with your spoken words. He says to look for photos that are:

• Related to your keynote’s concept
• Are not complex in terms of composition

3. Simplify charts and graphs

While most presenters will simply drop an image of their charts and graphs into their deck, Weyenberg points out that it might be a bit “unsightly.” If you need to use data to back a point that you’re making, you should make the extra effort to make it more attractive – and this can be done by recreating it in your presentation maker .

There are a couple benefits to doing this:

• It will make your presentation seem consistent and well-thought out
• You’ll have control over colors, typography, and more.

4. One theme per slide

According to the designers of Apple presentation slides, less is certainly more. Trying to cram too many ideas on one slide can only work to your detriment. Beyond ideas, the same goes for statistics.

Let’s play a little game: For the following idea, how many slides would you use? “The developer program is incredibly vibrant. We have over six million registered developers. Demand for this show has never been greater. We sold out in just over a minute [71 seconds].”

While the average person might think that 6 million and 71 seconds would belong on the same slide and be short and sweet enough, let’s compare it with what Apple’s CEO Tim Cook did.

He only leveraged two slides: The first said “6 million,” and the second: “71 seconds. Sold out.”

5. Create a visual experience with data

Taking a leaf again from Apple’s presentation book, once you’ve gotten the hang of having just one stat per slide – you should also make it as visual as possible.

One data point per slide, combined with it being visually interesting – is sure to be memorable.

6. Practice Really Makes Perfect

Imagine the late Steve Jobs, a legendary keynote presenter, still rehearsed for months before a presentation. According to Brent Schlender , one of the co-authors behind the Steve Jobs biography “Becoming Steve Jobs,” Jobs would rehearse and prepare “exhaustively” for all of his public appearances.

Despite being a natural on the stage, Jobs never would wing it, he came to the show well prepared.

“I once spent an entire day watching him run through multiple rehearsals of a single presentation, tweaking everything from the color and angle of certain spotlights, to editing and rearranging the order of the keynote presentation slides to improve his pacing,” remembers Schlender.

While you may not be a perfectionist like Jobs, you are likely also not nearly as good of a presenter as he is – so practice really makes perfect in this case.

7. Tell A Consistent Story

Circling back to Weyenberg’s tips – he suggests that in a good slide deck, every slide should feel “like part of the same story.” Think of your deck like a story – every slide should feel cohesive to the big picture message you’re trying to communicate – as opposed to random ideas juxtaposed together.

You can do this by:

• Using the same or similar typography, colors, and imagery across all slides
• Using presentation templates can help with maintaining the same look and feel

8. Less is more

We explored the less is more concept earlier in the article by suggesting you keep to one idea per slide. The same can be applied to text.

When it comes to creating slides for your next keynote, the cardinal sin is a slide with ample text that is verbatim of your spoken presentation.

What this does is encourage people to keep their eyes on your slides instead of listening to you.

Weyenberg also points out that a text-heavy slide forces the brain to multitask between focusing on what it’s reading and hearing – which is quite difficult and will compromise your presentation.

9. Consider topic transitions

While you want to make your slides look like a cohesive unit, you want to also keep in mind that making every slide look the same may be boring. Weyenberg suggests to:

• Create one style for the slides that are the “meat” of the message
• Then create another style for the slides that are transitioning between topics

For example, if your overall slides have a dark background with light text, you can use transitional slides that have a light background with dark text. This way, they’ll still feel like they’re from the same presentation family without being completely uniform.

10. Tell a captivating story

It is fitting that our final tip comes from likely the greatest keynote presenter of all time. The late and great Steve Jobs had the ability to captivate and inspire his audience with his talks, and that’s because he was a very good storyteller. And that’s the golden leaf that you can take from Jobs’ book today.

Always aim to tell a captivating story.

One example is perhaps when he introduced the iPod: “In 2001, we introduced the first iPod. It didn’t just change the way we all listen to music. It changed the entire music industry.” Listen to Steve Jobs weave a story about the digital music revolution when unveiling the iPod.

Bonus Round: Tips From Piktochart Designers  

• Always remember that your audience is sitting far away . So ensure that your title font size is large enough to be seen from a distance, and that your body text is no smaller than 20px.
• Use only two colors for your entire presentation – a primary and secondary color. If you must use a large color palette, your maximum choice should be up to five colors.
• Make sure that there is enough white space throughout your presentation . This will give your content room to breathe. Less is definitely more in this case.
• Emphasize only one object per slide – whether it’s an image, statistic, quote. This will make sure your audience stays focused.

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Pro Speakers on How to Give a Perfect Keynote Presentation

Updated: January 13, 2021

Published: November 03, 2020

Two years ago, I was asked to give a presentation about my HubSpot article on emotional marketing . It was by far the most exhilarating and nerve-wracking experience of my professional life.

I don’t necessarily hate public speaking. However, leading up to the event, I felt the full responsibility of not only delivering a good presentation but also teaching the audience valuable , actionable information — and that was very intimidating.

I wanted to do a good job, and I wanted to be a good teacher.

Therein lies the importance of keynote presentations : to be effective, they should be educational and entertaining. Do you have a keynote presentation in your future? Read on for some advice from professional speakers.

First, what is a keynote presentation? Glad you asked.

You may also be tasked with a keynote presentation in order to secure funding, make a sale, or update stakeholders or executives. Whatever stage you find yourself on, delivering a keynote presentation is an important responsibility as a public speaker.

How to Give a Perfect Keynote Presentation, According to the Experts

I spoke with four professional speakers on how to deliver a near-perfect presentation. Here are five pieces of advice they shared.

1. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse.

When it comes to public speaking, practice quite literally makes perfect. Every expert I spoke with mentioned how frequently they rehearse their presentations.

“However much you think you need to rehearse, rehearse 10 times more than that. When you show up to a concert, you expect that the musicians know their songs, and you certainly don't want the first time they try to play it to be right there on stage. You owe your audience and the folks hiring you to speak the same respect,” said Melanie Deziel , international keynote speaker and founder of StoryFuel . (She received this advice herself from Michael and Amy Port at Heroic Public Speaking .)

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As more presentations and events become fully virtual, the likelihood of technical difficulties also grows. Rehearsing your content can help you weather any interruptions or last-minute changes.

Rehearsal not only leads to content mastery; it allows freedom in your presentations. “The more you rehearse and become comfortable with the content, the freer you'll be to take chances, experiment, and truly focus on your delivery, rather than trying to remember what comes next,” shared Deziel.

How do these experts recommend practicing your presentations? “[Use] a mirror,” said Olivia Scott , keynote speaker and founder of Omerge Alliances . “I take the time to see how I'm being received, I look at my body posture, and I look at everything to make sure that I feel good about what I'm delivering. This isn’t exactly a tool or technology, but it's a way to practice and rehearse.”

Additionally, consider asking friends, family, and trusted colleagues to listen to your practice runs and provide feedback on your presentation.

2. Ask for feedback.

Speaking of feedback, expert orators know to ask for it on a regular basis — from friends, peer groups, mentors, audience members, and clients. “Find a support crew and connect with other speakers in the industry,” mentioned Karen Hopper , keynote speaker and data strategist at M+R. Hopper personally recommends Shine Bootcamp , which provided her with lifelong friendships, helpful feedback, and a priceless education about public speaking.

Provided by Karen Hopper

“We help each other with feedback on our pitches, topics, outlines, and presentations, and we celebrate each others' wins,'' said Hopper. “ ... It’s well worth surrounding yourself with people who will cheer for you and who will give you honest feedback — the fastest way to get better is to ruthlessly seek out that feedback.”

Clients can also be an incredibly helpful source of feedback. If you’re asked to speak at an event or conference, consider asking the people who hired you. “I ask my client for their reaction immediately after every presentation. It’s important to know how they felt, and whether the presentation achieved their goals. Every time my client is happy, that’s my most successful presentation,” said Jeff Toister , keynote speaker, author, and customer service expert.

Lastly, the best feedback often comes from the source — in this case, your audience. Whether you ask questions during your presentation (which we’ll discuss next) or ask for feedback following your presentation, it’s never a bad idea to know what your audience thought about your keynote.

Feedback may look different if giving a remote keynote presentation, but it's still possible.

“It’s been a creative challenge to adapt a talk I'd hoped to give in person to work in a virtual environment. It's much harder to tell how your talks are received online, without being able to see nodding and note-taking and hear laughter and clapping. But all the feedback I have received [over email] indicated that my talk successfully changed the way many people are thinking about their content idea generation process, and that was the ultimate goal of the talk: to change how people think ,” shared Deziel, referring to her recent keynote at Content Marketing World 2020.

3. Engage your audience.

Nobody likes being talked at . Sure, delivering a keynote presentation involves you doing most of the talking, but it doesn’t have to be a one-way conversation. Many of the experts I interviewed encouraged some sort of audience engagement or interaction to enhance your presentation.

“People love to be involved in a presentation. Rather than explain a concept to my audience, I find a way to have them experience it,” said Toister. “For example, when I share how multitasking hurts productivity and causes us to make more errors, I have the audience try a brief multitasking exercise so they can experience the problem themselves.”

Did you know that audience engagement levels drop considerably (14%) if a presenter does most of the talking, versus if the audience talks just as much? Moreover, 64% of people believe that a presentation with two-way interaction is much more engaging than a one-way presentation.

Presentation engagement also takes practice — just like your presentation content itself. “ ... Entertainment comes from the performance itself: the way in which you deliver that content and the energy you bring to that delivery. This is a separate skill you need to practice. Work with a coach, watch back recordings of yourself to identify opportunities to improve your craft, and watch videos of top-notch comedians, poets and other speakers to see what you can learn from them,” encouraged Deziel.

Lastly, as important as engagement is, don’t let technology stand in the way. While smartphones and polling software can make audience interaction easier, they can also get in the way of you connecting with your audience. “I prefer to just have people stand up, raise their hand, or clap to participate in the poll. It gets the audience moving, and I don’t have to worry about WiFi connections or whether the polling software is working,” said Toister.

4. Prioritize your content as much as the delivery.

While entertaining and interacting with your audience is helpful and exciting, it shouldn’t take precedence over your presentation content itself. “Nearly all of what the audience can learn from you comes from the content: the stories you tell, the examples you share, the facts you cite and the other information you explain. Carefully crafting those materials and testing it out ensures that the audience will get the information they were promised from your session,” said Deziel.

Tools like PowerPoint, Keynote, Google Slides, and Canva can help you hone your content and develop a story within your presentation. A 2018 Prezi study (another presentation tool option) showed that 90% of people believe a strong narrative makes for a more engaging, interesting presentation. Data can help form arguments and explain facts, but stories stay with your audience long after your time on stage.

Storytelling is yet another way to engage with your audience, especially by evoking emotions like humor. “It’s entertaining to ask questions, saying, ‘Can anyone relate to this? Has anyone ever had this type of experience before?’ and then getting them involved with some laughter around those experiences. Laughter always helps,” said Scott, who presented at INBOUND 2020 .

Hopper, who was also a Breakout Speaker at INBOUND 2020, agreed: “Don't be afraid to be funny or drop in jokes — there are studies that show that laughing actually helps your brain retain information better, so not only will your audience have a good time laughing with you, but they'll also get more out of your presentation. It’s a win-win!”

5. Focus on the audience.

Finally, everyone can agree that public speaking is either revered or feared. If you relate to the latter and find yourself nervous when giving presentations, turn your focus on the audience.

“Speakers easily get nervous when they focus on themselves and worry too much about their own performance. Focusing on your audience first takes the nerves away and redirects your attention to making sure your audience gets something of value from your keynote,” shared Toister.

That’s the goal of a keynote presentation — to provide value to your audience. Regardless of what story you’re telling, what tools you’re using, or how you’re engaging the crowd, as long as you deliver a presentation that inspires your audience to think differently — even for 30 minutes — you’ve given a perfect keynote presentation.

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Guide to Planning, Writing, and Delivering a Killer Keynote Speech

by Janice Tomich

• Presentation Planning & Public Speaking Skills

Being invited to deliver a keynote address is a great honor.

It’s exhilarating. A compliment to your expertise.

I’m a presentation coach . A client of mine recently was asked to deliver the keynote address at a large women’s tech event. She was new to public speaking. This was her first high-stakes conference opportunity.

She’s a seasoned leader in an industry with few female colleagues. Although she loves her job, at times her career has been rough. The conference organizers asked her to share her perspective with young women new to the field to help them navigate the inevitable difficulties of being a woman in tech—and also give them advice on how to enjoy the ride.

Her excitement and nervousness were palpable. That’s how it feels when you’re asked to give the keynote.

Being asked means that others value your ideas, thoughts, and vision. You know it’s a big opportunity. A keynote speech provides an opportunity to inspire others like no other.

But if you’ve been asked to share what you’ve experienced throughout your career (or even lifetime) it can be a daunting ask.

With the honor of delivering a keynote comes the responsibility to deliver an address that will inspire your audience to take action.

Table of Contents

What Is a Keynote Speech?

A keynote speech stands above other public speaking opportunities because event organizers make it the highlight of the agenda. Large events often leverage the keynote speaker to attract attendees.

The theme of a keynote is usually set by the event’s theme.

For multi-day events like conferences the keynote is often (but not always) scheduled on the last day. Scheduling the keynote for the end of the event builds excitement and anticipation. Other times the keynote is scheduled near the beginning of an event, and in this case the role of the keynote speaker is to set the tone. Knowing when you’ll be speaking (at the beginning or at the end of the event) impacts the type of keynote speech you should create.

A keynote speaker is usually given a substantial amount of time to speak, often 45 to 60 minutes over dinner. Unlike a shorter presentation, keynote addresses give you a brilliant opportunity to go deep. TO show the breadth of your expertise. To invite your audience along through the ups and downs, ins and outs of a storyline. Your speech can be complex and include unanticipated twists and turns (while of course staying on track with your core message.)

If you’re lost and unsure about how to make your presentation compelling, I can help.

How Long Should A Keynote Be?

There are only a few hard and fast rules about the length of a keynote speech:

• The length of the speech is ultimately dictated by the amount of speaking time allocated by the event organizer.
• The length of the speech should be however long it takes you to clearly and concisely deliver a speech that inspires your audience.

Essentially, just enough time and not too much. 

P ro Tip: The amount of time allocated by the organizers is not always set in stone, especially in the early days of organizing an event. Keep the line of communication open with your organizer. The time frame might be open to adjustment or negotiation.

What Makes a Keynote Speech Compelling and Memorable?

An engaging, inspiring keynote presentation encourages the audience to envision what they are capable of. The best keynote speeches don’t just inform—they compel the audience to take action.

Keep two things top of mind as you plan:

• Focus on one main message (your throughline).
• Put yourself in the hearts and minds of your audience. Think of this as a research project as much as an exercise in empathy. Take the time to learn about what your audience wants to know. Learn how they need to hear it.

Going back to my example, the key message of my client who keynoted at the tech conference was resilience .

How did this key message turn into a speech?

She told funny, heart-wrenching stories, including some stories which were excruciating for her at the time they happened. These stories showed her drive to succeed. She spoke candidly about the problems she had come up against in her career. Then she revealed how she solved these problems and the benefits that transpired. Throughout the whole speech, she tapped back into her key message— resilience.

How Much Time Should You Devote to Preparation?

More time than you think.

I have never had a client tell me, “I wish I had spent less time preparing my keynote.”

They’re always glad they invested a good amount of time. Feeling completely ready in the days leading up to the event is worth it.

Nancy Duarte, the author of Resonate , works with industry giants on their keynote speeches. Duarte recommends you spend 30 hours on content creation for a 1-hour speech. (This doesn’t include building the slide deck or practicing the speech).

Here’s my breakdown of the time it takes to be fully prepared to step on stage to deliver your keynote address:

• 30 hours to research your speech and develop the keynote content
• 30 hours to create your keynote slide deck
• 30 hours of practicing your delivery

90 hours likely seems like a lot of time, but that’s what it takes to create and develop an inspirational, career-boosting keynote.

Your first rough draft will be just that … rough. Keynote speech writing is never a one-and-done process. To really nail it you need to get feedback and let the speech, slide deck, and delivery evolve over time. The results are worth it.

How Much Lead Time Do You Need?

Keynotes are a rich opportunity to give an audience perspective into who you are and what you know.

You should allow for 3 months (and a minimum of 2 months) of lead time before you deliver your keynote.

However, life does not always go according to plan. You may not have a lot of time left to prepare. I offer a presentation coaching service called Crunch Time for when you’ve been asked on short notice (a speaker may have become ill) or you have been consumed with other projects and need support to deliver an engaging speech.

Planning a Keynote Speech: Who is your audience? What is your intention?

Your goal should be to take your body of work and experience and use that to resonate with your audience. Inspire them to action. Your words of wisdom will become part of their life experience and create a legacy which will stick with them for years.

“It’s all about the audience—not about you.” These are wise words I’ve never forgotten, delivered to us on the first day of class of my communication degree.

In my work supporting clients through presentation planning, I’m always checking in to ensure that the audience will be able to understand What’s In It For Them (WIIFT in marketing terms). Remembering to center on WIIFT is crucial. It’s the foundation for a successful keynote.

Your intention is important too—equally important, actually. Why are you giving the keynote? What do you want to have happen because of it? Knowing your own “why” and how it relates to the needs of your audience puts you on track to engage and inspire.

How To Write A Keynote Speech

1. establish your throughline.

After you have a good understanding of who your audience is and what your intention is in delivering your keynote it’s time to establish your throughline. Identify which theme or concept you want to speak about.

My client who was keynoting the tech conference planned to speak on resiliency, which is a broad topic. I encouraged her to dig deeper. Upon reflection, she realized that much of her success stemmed from her commitment to creating and building relationships.

She evolved the throughline. The theme of the keynote became developing resiliency through relationships .

2. Brainstorm with an open mind and big wall

Once you’ve decided on your throughline it’s time to find an open wall and a stack of post-it notes.

In freewriting-mode write down any and all ideas that come bubbling up that will support your theme. Take lots of breaks. I promise you’ll come back with fresh ideas each time.

3. Step back and group ideas into themes

Stand back once your wall is filled with ideas. Notice common themes. Place similar ideas into three groups.

What you see is three arguments or points of proof that support your throughline.

4. Pare down to the best ideas

Now sweep through and dispense of any of your ideas that strike you as weak or you don’t feel passionate about.

5. Order your ideas

Place the ideas that remain into a logical order, so that they flow from one idea to the next. That’s your outline. Transfer these concepts to a Google Doc or put pen to paper. You’ve got the bones of a good keynote speech already.

Don’t write out a script word-for-word. Instead, think about what you want to speak about for each of your points. Flesh them out, making notes about what you want to say.

You’ve invested a large amount of time creating the content. Every component of a keynote is important. So now let’s focus on how you open, close, and title your keynote.

How To Open A Keynote Speech

I suspect you’ve been to at least a few presentations where you felt bored by the speaker after just a few minutes.

Too many speakers begin with a status quo opening such as citing their CV or meticulously outlining what they “want to talk with you about.”

You can do better.

My client started her keynote off with a dose of humor rooted in her own personal experience. She talked about the inappropriate clothes she wore to an interview and the hilarious story of what she did to gain access to the building.

Here are a few more ideas to open your keynote speech:

• Start your speech by addressing the elephant in the room to address a negative bias your audience may be thinking. Perhaps you are quite young and your audience is older. You could begin by saying, “You are probably looking at me thinking she’s twelve years old and what could she know. And you’d be right…”
• Quote a startling statistic. Often keynotes focus on living out dreams. This statement will have your audience’s interest piqued, “The average person has over 1,460 dreams a year”.
• Begin a story that you can use to weave and thread your presentation together. You could begin by sharing a story of how a mentor helped. Throughout your presentation continue the story dropping the nuggets of wisdom of what your mentor said and how she helped.

It’s crucial that you grab your audience’s attention right from the start – that you hook them with your first words.

How To Close a Keynote Speech

Finish your keynote with clarity and power. I’ve listened to too many speeches and keynotes where the ending was weak. They didn’t live up to the energy of the body of work.

My client decided to loop back to the chain of events that happened before her interview, narrating how she hung in there, even when things weren’t going according to plan.

Here are some excellent approaches to closing your keynote powerfully:

Loop back to how you began your speech. If you began your speech by talking about the elephant in the room, tag back to provide assurance that you have.

Wrap up a story you teased in your opening and then threaded throughout the speech.

If you began your keynote with a stat or quote reference it again at the end by summarizing how you proved it was true.

A tenet I firmly stand by that it’s not good enough to just leave your audience inspired . You must leave them inspired to do somethin g. Close your speech with a clear call to action to do something tangible that will make a difference to them and/or their community.

Choosing a Title for Your Keynote

Your title is your audience’s first introduction to what they will hear. Finding the ‘right’ title makes them want to listen.

If a compelling title comes to mind before or as you are developing and creating your speech, write it down. But don’t worry if you’ve planned out your whole speech and still don’t have a title idea. The best titles often come to us right at the end. You’ll have lots of ideas to play with when you’ve finished gathering your content.

Here is a trick while working with an editor at Inc.com: first craft a title, then play with variations of that title by using words that will get attention or have an inherent hook embedded within them.

Here’s an example of how I played with titles before settling on one for this article:

My initial ideas were

Both titles are merely functional. They’re lackluster and don’t reflect the complexity of the article itself, which goes beyond merely “writing” a keynote.

I rephrased it to expand on the topic and add a bit more punch:

Better, but I knew I could do better.

I liked it. It is more eye catching and it indicates a comprehensive “guide” that promises not just a “how to” article, but in-depth advice that speaks to creating an excellent keynote that will be well received.

Invest the time in finding just the right title. It’s worth it. It piques your audience’s interest from their first interaction with you.

How To Practice Your Keynote Speech

Don’t put off practicing until the last minute. Conversely, don’t over-practice until you sound like a robot and have diluted every ounce of passion out of your presentation.

Making good use of your practice time is easy.

I’ve written an extensive guide on how to rehearse for a presentation and I’ve also written on this topic for Inc.com . Read them for tips and techniques to learn your keynote speech easily so you can walk on the stage confidently knowing you’ll nail it. 

I have never had a client tell me they wished they had practiced less. I encourage you to practice only as much as you need to and not a second more.

P ro Tip: When you have a few spots that are giving you difficulties just practice those sections. It’s a poor investment of your time to practice your keynote over and over in its entirety if only a few sections are tripping you up.

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Tips For Creating Your Slidedeck or PowerPoint Presentation

My take on PowerPoint is that it’s a powerful tool that has been dropped into the laps of people who, more often than not, don’t have the training or experience to wield it effectively.

Before PowerPoint, marketing and communication teams would strategize over the best content for the slides. Graphic designers would create them.

These are the three most important things to know about your slide presentation:

• If slides won’t add or support your presentation don’t use them. 
• Create your slides so that they are primarily image-based with a limited amount of text. 
• If you are not a graphic designer hire one. It’s worth it for the stroke of elegance and professional edge they will add. A graphic designer will bring your deck to life. 

If you do decide to use a slidedeck ensure it helps your audience connect the dots and visualize what you are sharing with them.

What To Do Before You Deliver Your Speech

I’m often backstage supporting clients at their events. It’s exhilarating to feel the energy of speakers waiting to go on stage. You can feel the excitement … hearts pounding and voices warming up.

Here are a few tips and techniques professional speakers use to ready themselves, calm their nerves , and warm up their voice before giving a keynote speech:

• If you find yourself not sleeping well or experiencing anxiety in the days leading up to your speech try 4 – 7 – 8 breathing . Three or four rounds should have you feeling calmer and able to fall back to sleep. 
• Keep yourself hydrated. The day before your event up your water intake. This will keep you feeling energetic and your voice lubricated. 
• Make sure you get a good sleep before your keynote. Lack of sleep will knock you off your game. 
• Fifteen minutes before your keynote move your voice up and down through your natural register with vocal exercises so you can use your voice like the fine instrument it is. 
• Just as you are about to speak, if you suffer from dry mouth, take these lozenges to help you articulate with ease. 
• When you arrive at the podium take a few deep breaths, feel your feet on the floor, touch a favourite amulet such as a ring or necklace…and away you go! 

What You Should Do After Your Speech

When you end your speech you’re still not quite finished yet.

Connect with people from your audience. Gather feedback. Some of the richest relationships you will create will happen if you take the time to talk with people after your speaking event. If you have the opportunity, ask for presentation feedback to help you learn what worked and what didn’t.

Don’t ask if they enjoyed your keynote because the response will probably be, “It was great!” Instead, ask what they took away that will make a difference in their life. Ask them what nugget stuck with them. The answers to these questions will provide information to improve your next keynote.

Having your keynote recorded provides a brilliant learning opportunity. Many of my clients tell me they can’t/won’t watch a recording of themselves. I ask them to separate themselves from their egos and embrace the opportunity to learn. You can gain insight into what landed and what didn’t by your audience’s reactions.

Ask for presentation feedback from a trusted advisor. Don’t ask family and friends. A trusted advisor or mentor has the perspective to provide unbiased feedback that your family and friends won’t be able to. A trusted advisor will be able to expertly able to weigh in about your content, your delivery, and the effectiveness of your speech. ¯

Keynote speeches are complex. They have lots of pieces that need to fit together to create an easy, simple flow and to hold your audience in your hands so they will be inspired and learn from you.

Do you need help with your upcoming keynote speech to make sure your audience will leave challenged to take action and be inspired? Let’s chat and learn how I might help. Here’s access to my calendar to schedule a time to talk.

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How much time do you take to design your presentation? Days? Weeks? Where do you get your inspiration from and how do you find the right design elements? Wouldn’t it be fantastic if you could create a remarkable keynote presentation in a day or two? I think anyone can do it, if they pay attention to the following presentation techniques and manage to combine them in a way that helps them put the right ideas in the right context.

Also read:  7 Things To Improve In Your Keynote Speech Presentation

Achieving presentation flow is a challenging task. Not everyone has a knack for design. So pay attention to each of these ideas, both the simpler ones and the more complex, and make your own combo to improve delivery and convince your audience.

1. Visuals are your friend

Using different types of visuals can be a great way to help your audience remember and react. Photos, illustrations, icons, symbols, sketches, figures, and diagrams are much more easy for the brain to retain than words. Think of a company logo for example – how many times has your brain recognized the logo even before you remembered the name of the brand?

Another great thing about using imagery is that it makes you more charismatic. It seems that speakers are seen as more charismatic when otherwise identical speeches contain more imagery . Here’s a great example – a former US president’s inaugural address was rewritten to create low and high imagery versions in an experiment. The audio recordings of the two speeches were played for the participants to the study who were randomly assigned. After listening to the speech, they provided ratings on various summary leadership measures. The result? The speech with high imagery was attributed to a more charismatic person.

2. Keep the presentation short and to the point

Thousands of psychological, neurobiological and social science studies have been conducted on how humans “pay attention.” The famous Microsoft “study” claimed that the human attention span went from 12 seconds on average in 2000 to just 8.25 seconds in 2015, which is shorter than that of a goldfish. What most of these studies concluded is that, most of the time, we don’t pay attention. It’s just how our brain works.

Keep your presentation short and sweet and, more importantly, simple. Even if your ideas are complex, you need to find a way to help your audience focus and follow your speech. Make sure your slides are not too busy if you want the audience to listen to you instead of reading slides.

3. The rule of three

This is a rather well-known technique that’s based on the fact that people tend to only remember three things. When you design the flow of your presentation, work out what the three messages that you want your audience to take away are. Then, structure your presentation around them, using the right design elements to separate the three.

The same rule can be applied to an individual slide –  it’s recommended that you use a maximum of three points on a slide. Make sure that they aren’t bullet points or presenter notes. Those should not be on the screen when you’re doing a keynote speech. If Google’s CEO does not  use bullet points , neither should you.

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4. Focus on telling stories instead of throwing numbers

Even if you have a technical or scientific topic to present, you still need to tell a story. That is the essence of a keynote speech, to be memorable, emotional, compelling. And that means storytelling.

Tell stories and anecdotes to help you illustrate your ideas and your research. This will definitely make your presentation more effective and memorable. In a UCLA study , students were asked to recall a series of speeches they had heard. Only 5 percent remembered any individual statistic, while 63 percent remembered the stories presented in those speeches.

“Things are not what they seem.” It’s that to get people to sit on the edge of their chair or to get them involved in your story, the audience has to constantly discover something new.

Howard Suber, UCLA

5.  Know what slide is coming next

Memorizing every single word in a presentation is not a good idea. That’s why you shouldn’t have chunks of text altogether. But knowing what slide comes next is a must. Even if you are an amazing speaker and you’ve been really busy so you’ve had the presentation made for you, go through it at least once before.

It helps to build trust and keep the audience engaged when you say “On the next slide [Click] you will see…”, rather than than act confused when the next slide appears. It will also help with the flow of the presentation.

6. Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse

Practice is key for public speaking. Many experts say that rehearsal is the biggest single thing that you can do to improve your performance. This technique will make you so comfortable with the presentation content that you won’t need notes or prompts and you’ll appear conversational but knowledgeable.

Perform your presentation out loud at least four times. You can try something different each time: one in front of your friends or colleagues, one alone and one in front of a real scary audience, for good measure. You should also try to do a video recording of a rehearsal. It will help you spot improvement points, from how you are standing, if you are jangling keys, to how well your presentation is structured.

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7. Have an emergency plan

This does not include running off the stage. But it is a well known fact that something is bound to go wrong. It’s either the projector, the lights, the audio, the laptop, the fonts, etc. It’s always good to have a back-up plan. This way you won’t be blindsided, stressed and confused in case something goes off track. A useful tip is to check out the presentation room beforehand, so that you know what could go wrong.

Murphy’s kit: Have a printed out set of slides, data stick of your presentation and a laptop with your slides on it.

8. Involve the audience

One of the most powerful presentation techniques is inviting the audience in and have them contribute in some way. This will get them emotionally invested and it will differentiate you from inexperienced, nervous speakers.

Plan a inclusion of the audience in your presentation somewhere. It can be a slide with a question, a game or just an empty slide to help you connect with people and re-gain their full attention. Here are some ideas for audience activities–from a simple show of hands, to requests for brief personal input, to role playing and games, to small group exercises- and their merits:

The show of hands is good for polling the audience and gaining real-time feedback. It lets audience members know where they stand with respect to the group.Brief personal input reveals the diversity of experience in the room.Role playing and games are excellent for practicing sales situations and interpersonal responses.Group exercises allow participants to learn from each other.

9. Don’t read off the slides word for word

Please. Your audience is surely capable of doing that for themselves. They don’t need you to be standing in front of them reading off the screen.

Build your presentation in a way that it provides context for your speech, with visual elements and clear, simple ideas. Use your slides as outlines or conversation points that you build on, just like you would in a normal discussion. Experienced speakers often use slides to add a quick parenthetical note to something they’re saying to the audience.

10. Find the right speed

Most people go too fast. Mostly because they’re nervous or they’re pressured by the time constraints of the format. It’s really easy to rush through your content and speak very quickly, especially if you’re panicked. But it’s much easier for an audience to engage with your content and remember something if your delivery falls into a natural rhythm. Pace yourself and remember to punctuate your speech with pauses to emphasise key points.

Here’s a great exercise shared by Sims Wyeth , who learned it from Marian Rich, a voice and speech teacher in New York who worked with many famous actors to help them improve their vocal presence.

“The exercise will teach you that your voice is a wind instrument, and you must have ample air in your lungs to play it well.

Mark a paragraph / in this manner / into the shortest possible phrases. / First, / whisper it / with energetic lips, / breathing / at all the breath marks. / Then. / speak it / in the same way. / Do this / with a different paragraph / everyday. / Keep your hand / on your abdomen / to make sure / it moves out / when you breathe in / and moves in / when you speak.

Before you whisper each phrase, take a full bellyful of air and then pour all the air into that one phrase. Keep your throat open, and don’t grind your vocal chords. Lift your whisper over your throat. Pause between phrases. Relax. Then, take another full breath and whisper the next phrase. Whisper as if you were trying to reach the back of the room.

Once you’ve whispered the paragraph, then go back to the start and speak it in a conversational way, but again, pour all the air into each phrase and honor the silence between phrases. I can’t stress that enough. Take your own sweet time at the forward slashes.”

If you’re more of a slow talker, with a constant calm rhythm, you might run the risk of boring the audience. Keep people awake and interested by learning to increase your speaking speech without losing articulation and thought clarity. Start by learning what makes you slow. Record a one-minute monologue on tape and use a stopwatch or second hand; listen for the following types of slow spots.

11.  Include some humor

Humor can be one of the most powerful techniques for giving a great keynote presentation. You can use it in the beginning to relieve the tension in the room and help ease the transition into the bulk of the content. Appropriate humor that’s true to you let’s your audience get a sense of your personality and makes for a memorable presentation.

If you’re not a natural punster, do not despair. Anything can be learned. Here are a few techniques you can try:

Exaggeration: “Then I talked to a woman whose voice was so high only the dog could hear it.”Puns: “Did you hear about the guy whose whole left side was cut off? He’s all right now.”Self-deprecation: “And then, even though I knew it was too hot to eat, I bit into the pizza anyway. Because, clearly, I am an idiot.”Wordplay: “She brought me a plate of french fries instead. At least I thought they were French because they had an attitude and wore berets.”References: “Do. Or do not. There is no try.” – Yoda

12. Follow Guy Kawasaki’s 10-20-30 rule

Guy Kawasaki wrote that a presentation “should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points”. Although this was meant for entrepreneurs creating pitch decks, it’s a useful pointer for keynote speeches as well, especially from a design point of view.

Opt for a legible font and type size. Don’t use eccentric fonts that will make it impossible to make out the actual words. Stick to standard, easy-to-read fonts, preferably sans-serif (fonts such as Arial or Helvetica).

13. Pause from time to time

Both in your speech and in your presentation, white space is an important component. Whitespace is a fundamental building block of good design. Its one of the first thing any visual designer is taught. However, to many speakers it is simply a waste of space that could be used to better promote their message or express an additional idea.

Speech pauses allow you to punctuate your spoken words, giving your listeners clues as to when one phrase, one sentence, or one paragraph ends, and the next begins. Brigitte Zellner notes that pauses “participate in rendering human communication more intelligible. (…) In other words, pauses “stick out like sore thumbs”, and thus may occupy “beacon” positions in speech, serving to structure the entire utterance for both speaker and listener.”

14. Try some icebreakers

Why not reference some fun facts? Or have audience members introduce themselves? The most effective keynotes are both informative and enjoyable at the same time.

“For the brain to remember, presenters must deviate from a pattern in some significant way.”

Carmen Simon, co-founder of Rexi Media

Although not everyone is comfortable with icebreakers it doesn’t hurt to try one or two and see how they work for your keynote. Here are some different icebreaker ideas.

15. Make it thematic

Another out of the box idea is to make the most of an upcoming or recent event/holiday/movie release etc. and create a thematic presentation. Go for a memorable appearance, costume and all, and a well-designed presentation to accompany your speech. Get the audience to remember your presentation by connecting it to something they like or even dislike. The emotional connection will help spark a valuable conversation and it will increase the chances of people remembering your ideas.

Connections among elements in memory can make a real difference. Art Markman uses the analogy of a bowl of peanuts in his book Smart Thinking. He says that if you take peanuts out one at a time, you get three peanuts when you reach into the bowl three times. But, if you pour caramel over the peanuts, then when you pull one out, you get a whole cluster. After you draw from the bowl three times, you may have gotten almost all of the peanuts out. Memory functions in a similar way. By encouraging connections among the key points in your talk, you help pour caramel over the peanuts in memory and increases the amount that people remember from what you present.

16. Stay connected

Make sure you have an offering for the gods of social media. A tweetable bit on a slide, a hashtag to connect online and to encourage comments and debates or a website with online resources. Connect this technique with the one on involving the audience and you’ll get online engagement as well as offline.

Your “tweetables” should resonate with the audience and to do that they need to be catchy. Use strong verbs and keep it short. Think about what you want your audience to take away from your presentation.

17. Share your slides after the event

It’s nice to build a long term relationship with your audience. After all, they will be the ones ensuring your the growing reach of your ideas. Sharing your slides is a great way to help them recall the content of your presentation. It’s also a great way to encourage engagement after the event so don’t forget to include the date, time and title of the presentation as well as your contact details.

Let them know that you’ll be making the slides available from the very beginning of the presentation so that they don’t feel the need to spend too much time taking notes instead of watching you. But don’t share your slides before the presentation otherwise you’ll spoil the show and give people an excuse to leave without watching.

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Keynote Presentation Template

Use the Keynote Presentation Template to create impactful presentations that will keep audiences intrigued and engaged.

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About the Keynote Presentation Template

The Keynote Presentation Template gives you the perfect framework to create a professional presentation that will capture your audience’s attention and keep them intrigued and inspired throughout your speech.

With tons of customizable elements, it’s the perfect choice if you’re planning on creating an effective keynote address that people will remember.  

What is a keynote presentation?

A keynote presentation is a speech that’s given around a specific theme that sets an overall tone for the event. These speeches aim to reinforce, rally, or inspire the audience around a particular topic. 

Often, keynote speeches are given by well-known figures, celebrities, or people who are very accomplished in a particular field. While mostly used at political or industry conventions, this type of presentation is excellent for other events such as expositions and academic conferences as well.  

What should be included in a keynote presentation?

A keynote presentation should include: 

One main theme: The best keynote speeches are created with one main idea or theme in mind. Everything else in your speech is going to relate to this one theme. For example, your theme may be “Business in the Age of AI.” 

Content relevant to the audience: It’s vital that you know exactly who your audience is. What are their interests, views, and behaviors? Even more importantly, how can you connect with them and fulfill their expectations through your speech? 

Stories and experiences: Use the fact-story-fact method to keep your audience intrigued throughout. Stories and experiences are an excellent way to connect with your audience and make them feel like you understand them and their struggles. 

Interactive elements: Include interactive elements in your presentation to engage your audience. Ask them questions that stimulate their thinking and help them figure out how they’re going to apply the information you’re giving. 

A call to action: Simplify the keynote message into a CTA. A good keynote speaker will leave the audience with actionable methods to incorporate the message into their businesses or personal lives. 

How long should a keynote presentation be?

The best keynote presentations are between 15 and 45 minutes long. However, it all depends on the speaker and the type of event. 

Generally, the shorter the keynote speech, the better. This is especially true when the speech is given after lunch or dinner when your audience is tired and has a shorter attention span. It’s important that the keynote speaker stays within the time parameters — even if the event is running late and requires you to shave a few minutes off your speech. 

How to use the Keynote Presentation Template

Download Miro’s Keynote Presentation Template, to get instant access. Here are the steps you can follow to get the most out of the Keynote Presentation Template.

Step 1: Introduce yourself and the main theme/idea

You need to introduce yourself and the main theme of your presentation in the first few frames or slides. It’s important that you pre-frame your audience in this section. Get them to adopt a particular outlook or attitude so that they’re receptive to the rest of your speech. 

Step 2: Break down your content

You can divide your content into different segments to make it easily digestible. One way to do this is to have one slide per fact and a subsequent story. Keep the information on your slides minimal and concise.  

Step 3: Customize your slides

Design creative slides by customizing them with supportive images, vector graphics, infographic elements, color schemes, and other visual elements to suit your message. Creating a beautiful presentation and adding a personal touch to it can go a long way in connecting with your audience. It’s your choice whether a stylish or simple design suits your topic and brand best. 

Step 4: Deliver the presentation

Once you’re done including the information on your frames, you can use presentation mode for different slide options where you can move, remove, or add slides to suit the timeframe of your speech. Once you click “present,” you’ll enter the widescreen format where your frames will be shown full-screen. You’ll be able to easily move between slides by using the arrow icons or keys. 

What makes a good keynote presentation?

Here are a few tips you can follow to give a good keynote presentation: 

Rehearse your speech in advance

Don’t write an entire script. Rather, focus on giving yourself a few key points that you can flesh out during the presentation. This will help you stay focused and avoid any memory lapses while you’re on stage. 

Keep the slides simple

Use bullet points in your slides to limit the amount of time the audience spends reading them. This will keep the audience focused on you as opposed to your slides. 

Create a clear speech structure

Does your speech have a beginning, middle, and end? Each of your speech sections will include different segments or information that should have a specific aim. You need to:

Establish authority and grab your audience’s attention in the introduction . 

Make your arguments and show examples in the body of your speech. 

Sum your entire speech up and give a clear CTA in your conclusion . 

What makes a keynote speech different from other presentations?

A keynote speech is the principal presentation that introduces and sets the tone for an event. Instead of teaching the audience skills and concepts on a deep, experiential level — like you would in most training sessions and presentations — the audience is only required to become inspired and ingest the lessons of a keynote presentation.

How many keynote speeches are in a conference?

Most events have a single keynote speaker at the beginning of the event. However, sometimes there may be two keynote speakers — one at the beginning and one at the end.

Do keynote speakers take questions?

Keynote speakers do take questions. However, instead of taking questions at the end of the speech, they’ll usually weave in a moment for questions toward the end of the presentation and only then summarize and conclude their keynote with a final thought or story.

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Presentations that stand out. Beautifully.

With its powerful tools and dazzling effects, Keynote makes it easy to create stunning and memorable presentations, and comes included with most Apple devices. Use Apple Pencil on your iPad to create diagrams or illustrations that bring your slides to life. And with real‑time collaboration, your team can work together, whether they’re on Mac, iPad, iPhone, or a PC.

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Present your story. Your way.

Keynote sets the stage for an impressive presentation. A simple, intuitive interface puts important tools front and center, so everyone on your team can easily add beautiful charts, edit photos, and incorporate cinematic effects. And Rehearse Mode lets you practice on the go, with the current or next slide, notes, and clock — all in one view.

Start with a gorgeous layout.

Choose from over 40 eye‑catching themes that instantly give your presentation a professional look. Or create your own slide designs, background images, and page‑by‑page customization.

Create next-level animations.

Add drama to your presentation with more than 100 cinematic transitions and effects. Make your words pop by adding textures, color gradients, and even photos — with just a tap. And animate objects along a path using Apple Pencil or your finger on your iPhone or iPad.

Make every slide spectacular.

Add subtle movement to your slides with dynamic backgrounds. Illustrate your point with over 700 Apple-designed shapes, or add photos, videos, music, image galleries, and charts. Easily remove backgrounds from supported images and live videos or manually refine adjustments as needed. You can even use your iPhone to take a photo or scan a document, and Continuity Camera can send it straight to Keynote on your Mac.

What’s new in Keynote.

Learn about everything you can do in Keynote

Get the updates. Then get in touch.

Stay up to date when people join, edit, or comment in collaborative presentations and easily get in touch with your team using Messages and FaceTime.

Get more done on iPad.

Quickly insert objects, find settings, and get to your favorite tools with the customizable toolbar. And Stage Manager makes it easy to multitask across multiple presentations and apps at the same time. 1

Make backgrounds disappear.

Now you can more easily remove backgrounds from supported images — and even live videos — or adjust them to your liking.

Add live video feeds to any slide.

Appear in a window, right on your slides, with a picture-in-picture display during remote presentations. Or include a live feed of your iPhone or iPad screen to show off apps.

Get started with dynamic themes.

Start with one of three beautiful new animated themes, then customize it to set the tone for each slide with 18 adjustable background presets — from understated to highly visual, monochrome to colorful, calm to energetic.

Captivate your audience with dynamic backgrounds.

Make your presentation stand out by adding stunning color and visual interest to your slides. Create motion on a title or closing slide for a bold statement, and keep viewers engaged with subtle movement throughout the presentation.

Present with your team. Seamlessly.

For slideshows with multiple presenters, you can take turns controlling a single deck — from anywhere — on Mac, iPad, and iPhone.

Play YouTube and Vimeo videos right in Keynote.

Embed a video from YouTube or Vimeo, then play it right in your presentations, without the need to download or open the video in a media player. 2

Present over video conference. Like a pro.

Play a slideshow in its own window so you can access other apps while you present. You can view your presenter notes, upcoming slides, and navigation in a separate window as well.

Outline your presentation. Easier.

With outline view for iPhone and iPad, quickly jot down your thoughts, restructure ideas, and move concepts from slide to slide. Then switch to slide view and start designing.

Present like never before. From anywhere.

With Keynote, presenting remotely can be just as seamless as presenting in person. Say goodbye to saying “Next slide, please” — now multiple people can present together, even remotely, with each person taking control of their section of the deck. Add a live video feed of yourself to any slide for a picture-in-picture experience. Or when presenting on your Mac, include a live feed of your iPhone or iPad screen to walk through your apps. You can even play a slideshow in its own window, so you can simultaneously access your notes and other apps.

Any presentation. Any device. Anytime.

You don’t work in one place on just one device. The same goes for Keynote. Work seamlessly across all your Apple devices. The slides you create using a Mac or iPad will look the same on an iPhone or web browser — and vice versa.

You can also work on presentations stored on iCloud or Box using a PC.

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Create and present together. Even when apart.

Work together in the same presentation, from across town or across the world. You can see your team’s edits as they make them — and they can watch as you make yours, too. You can even get notifications when people join, edit, or comment. When presenting as a team, you can also take turns controlling a single deck from anywhere.

Use Apple Pencil when inspiration strikes.

Add color, illustrations, and handwritten comments for more beautiful presentations with Apple Pencil on your iPad.

Plays well with Office.

Teaming up with someone who uses Microsoft PowerPoint? Keynote makes it a great working relationship. You can save Keynote presentations as PowerPoint files. Or import and edit PowerPoint presentations right in Keynote.

Learn more about Microsoft PowerPoint compatibility

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6 Tips and Tricks for Amazing Keynote Presentations on Your Mac

If you use Keynote on your Mac, take note of these essential tips and tricks to make your Keynote presentations stand out.

Keynote is the simplest way to make a beautiful presentation on your Mac. If you pick a template you like and let the defaults do the trick, you'll most likely end up with something you're proud of. However, you've got a lot more options than just the basics.

When using Keynote, you can easily transition between different slides. On top of that, you can jump around however you feel necessary—along with much more. Here, you'll learn the best Keynote tips for making amazing presentations in macOS.

1. Master Keynote's Slide Transitions

Transitions and animations are the two biggest reasons to use Keynote for making a presentation. To add a transition effect, select the slide from the slide navigator on the left. From the top-right corner of the window, click on the Animate tab.

Then, select the Action option, and you'll see a big blue Add an Effect button.

When you click on it, you'll be able to select from more than a dozen effects. In the example below, we've used the Confetti effect.

Once you select a transition, you'll be able to define the duration, the direction, and the start time.

2. Animate Individual Objects on the Slides

Keynote lets you control exactly when and where your objects show up. You can animate these by going to Animate > Build In > Add an Effect .

Click the Preview button to see how it looks. If you want to animate multiple objects together or one after the other, select all of them when defining the Build In effect.

When multiple objects are involved, click the Build Order button from the bottom of the sidebar. Here, you can define the order in which the objects appear on the screen.

3. Master Magic Move

Magic Move lets you directly move an object from one slide to another, with complete control over the animation.

First, place the objects on the slides the way you want. From the Slide Navigator , duplicate the slide by using the Command + D shortcut.

Now, change the position of the objects on both slides. The first slide will have objects in the default state. In the second slide, position the elements where you want them to end up.

Select the first of the two slides (not both), and from the sidebar, click on the Animate tab. From the Add an Effect section, choose Magic Move .

Preview it, and you'll instantly see a smooth animation going from one slide to another. Keynote takes care of the transition and animation automatically. But if you want, you can change the duration, match it with text instead of objects, and define when to start the transition.

4. Edit Your Slide Layouts

If you're working on a big presentation, you'll probably want your styling to be consistent. To achieve this, you can use the feature that lets you edit your slide layouts—which will allow you to define layouts and designs you use frequently.

Finding this feature in Keynote is simple. On your Mac keyboard, hold the Control button and click on a slide with your trackpad. Then, choose Edit Slide Layouts from the context menu.

After selecting Edit Slide Layouts , you can adjust numerous areas of your Keynote slides. For example, you can include a title and photo—along with several other things.

When you're finished, hit the blue Done button at the bottom, and you'll have something that better fits your needs.

If you aren't a big fan of the presentation layouts in Keynote, you can always consider picking from various Keynote alternatives .

5. Customize Your Toolbar

The more you use Keynote on your Mac, the more you'll figure out what does and doesn't work for you. You'll also probably notice that you use some tools more frequently than others. Having easy access to these is a good idea if you'd like to work more efficiently when creating your presentations.

Customizing your toolbar in Keynote is quite straightforward. When using the app on your Mac, you'll first need to go to the View menu from the macOS menu bar and choose Customize Toolbar located at the bottom of the dropdown.

A pop-up window will appear; here, you'll see a huge range of icons and other things you can move around. Moving these is the same as if you wanted to change icons on your iPhone or iPad; you can drag and drop the features you most frequently use.

When you're done customizing your toolbar, you can click the Done button in the bottom right-hand corner.

Keynote isn't the only way you can customize on your Mac . You can change several areas on your computer—color schemes, icons, and sounds, to name a few.

6. Use Action Buttons for Shapes in Keynote

As you create your presentations in Keynote, you might want to use shapes for several reasons. You can use them to create graphics , and they're also handy for breaking up your text—among numerous other things. One of the app's best hidden features lets you turn any shape into more of an interactive button.

You can use the action options for shapes in Keynotes to jump to a different slide. But that's not all; they're also handy for opening web pages and even ending the presentation.

First, you'll need to add a shape to your Keynote presentation. You can do this by selecting Shape from Keynote's toolbar at the top.

Choose the shape you want to add to your presentation and select it. After that, use the Command + K keyboard shortcut.

Expand the dropdown menu, and you can choose whether you want your shape to link to a slide, a website, or something else.

After choosing the purpose of your shape in Keynote, complete the remaining steps that your Mac prompts you to do. You can then use your shape to supercharge how your presentation functions.

Get More Advanced With Keynote Presentations on Your Mac

If you use a Mac to create your presentations, you might want to use Keynote for several reasons. Its interface is user-friendly, and you have plenty of customization options. On top of that, the app makes it easy for you to move around to different slides and various other things—giving you more control over what you're trying to do.

Now that you've read these tips, you should have a better understanding of how you can improve your presentations and wow your audience. You've learned all about adding effects, skipping to different slides, and more.

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For more than 30 years, the TED conference series has presented enlightening talks that people enjoy watching. In this article, Anderson, TED’s curator, shares five keys to great presentations:

• Frame your story (figure out where to start and where to end).
• Plan your delivery (decide whether to memorize your speech word for word or develop bullet points and then rehearse it—over and over).
• Work on stage presence (but remember that your story matters more than how you stand or whether you’re visibly nervous).
• Plan the multimedia (whatever you do, don’t read from PowerPoint slides).
• Put it together (play to your strengths and be authentic).

According to Anderson, presentations rise or fall on the quality of the idea, the narrative, and the passion of the speaker. It’s about substance—not style. In fact, it’s fairly easy to “coach out” the problems in a talk, but there’s no way to “coach in” the basic story—the presenter has to have the raw material. So if your thinking is not there yet, he advises, decline that invitation to speak. Instead, keep working until you have an idea that’s worth sharing.

Lessons from TED

A little more than a year ago, on a trip to Nairobi, Kenya, some colleagues and I met a 12-year-old Masai boy named Richard Turere, who told us a fascinating story. His family raises livestock on the edge of a vast national park, and one of the biggest challenges is protecting the animals from lions—especially at night. Richard had noticed that placing lamps in a field didn’t deter lion attacks, but when he walked the field with a torch, the lions stayed away. From a young age, he’d been interested in electronics, teaching himself by, for example, taking apart his parents’ radio. He used that experience to devise a system of lights that would turn on and off in sequence—using solar panels, a car battery, and a motorcycle indicator box—and thereby create a sense of movement that he hoped would scare off the lions. He installed the lights, and the lions stopped attacking. Soon villages elsewhere in Kenya began installing Richard’s “lion lights.”

• CA Chris Anderson is the curator of TED.

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Here’s an Excellent Keynote Speech GUIDE: With 2 Great Examples

You’ve probably been asked to give a keynote speech and you are afraid of it. Well, if you’ve never done this before, then there’s no need to panic. Thankfully, you’ve come to the right place. Let’s start with the basics, shall we? 

So, what is a keynote speech? 

Simply put, a keynote speech is usually given to set the theme of the entire event. It is a speech that is generally delivered by an expert, renowned and well-respected individual, depending on the theme of the event.

Being asked to give a keynote speech in front of a large audience can be a little intimidating. However, it’s the greatest honor to be selected as a keynote speaker. That said, you must deliver the best speech you possibly can. 

Now that we’ve covered what a keynote speech is, it’s time to key steps that you should take when preparing a keynote speech. 

Related Article: 7 Basic Elements of Public Speaking

How to prepare a keynote speech

Keynote speeches are very important. With that in mind, it’s one of the best opportunities for you and your business. Therefore, if you’ve been asked to be the keynote speaker, take advantage of such an opportunity. But, first, you will have to prepare your speech: 

1.     Find out the theme for the day

For any first-timer, you will probably be given the theme for the day by the event organizer. But if you are an experienced speaker, I’m sure everyone will applaud anything you say. All the same, both scenarios still require you to plan and organize your thoughts for your speech. 

2.     Outline your presentation

Sadly, most speakers always skip this part. And, it’s usually visible in their delivery and line of thought. The best way to handle this situation is by creating a sort of blueprint for your presentation which will include: 

• Highlight some of the key structural elements, for instance, introduction, conclusion, or even stories. 
• Highlight your key element in the presentation. What do I mean? Start by answering the question-what messages are you using to support your logical key point? 
• Link all the elements together in a systematic sequence
• Also, try mapping out the transition from one key point to the next and ensure that it’s flawless. 

3.     Now fill each section

Following your outline, use keywords to convey a clear message to your audience. This will also help in keeping the audience’s attention. On top of that, it will ensure you have a great flow of thoughts in your presentation. 

Write down the topic you’d like to present. Then go ahead and add principal keywords. Afterwards, write what you derive from each keyword. Thankfully, the structure of your keynote speech will give you a set of new keywords to follow. 

Make sure that you are brief and clear when filling each section. More importantly, don’t crowd up your content. You will also need to ensure you have most of the keywords in your mind. This will save you the time you use to check on your keynote speech instead of maintaining eye contact with the crowd. 

4.     Make the work visually attractive

Without a doubt, you should always ensure that your work has some visual ideas that would be easy to interpret. Add graphs or charts where necessary, but only where necessary. Too much of anything will lead to you losing the attention of your audience. 

5.     Add personal stories

Anecdotes and stories will assist you in illustrating your ideas to the audience. On top of that, it’s the best way to show your research. With stories, you should be able to capture the attention of your audience. Additionally, your audience will be emotionally invested which will differentiate you from nervous and inexperienced speakers. 

Play a game, add a question, or simply just maintain eye contact with your audience. This will help you gain their full attention throughout your speech. 

6.     Finally, rehearse

There’s no shortcut in this section. For you to present a killer speech in front of your audience without sounding nervous is through research. By rehearsing your speech several times, you can understand what it means to your audience and also see places where you can improve your speech. 

Actually, you can even record yourself while giving your keynote speech. That way, you will be able to work on your body language and speaking rate. If you have stage freight, this is a good way to avoid the effects of it. 

Now that you already know how to get ready for your speech, let’s take on how to open a keynote speech. 

The next points of discussion are: how to open a keynote speech, how long should a keynote speech be, and some great examples of keynote speeches. Before digging into that, let me add below some of the top related and interesting articles that can add to what you’re learning from this one. If any of the titles picks your interest, please click and open in a new tab, so you can check them out later. Enjoy!

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How to open a keynote speech?

I bet you are probably worried about your opening lines in your keynote speech, right? Well, first thing’s first, don’t be in a rush to speak. Before you open your mouth, the attention is usually high at this moment. Therefore, once you arrive up there, pause for a moment. To the audience, you will appear like you are trying to be confident and collected, so use that moment. 

The audience will lean in to try and hear your first few words. And at that moment, the audience will form their first impression of you with the first words you utter. An example of the first opening words include, ‘um, good evening everyone….I’m happy to be here in front of you. I will like to thank you so-so-so-so much…..’

Trust me if you start your speech with these words, the audience will feel like you are repeating words that will sound the same as the conversations they have been trying to avoid. 

To get the full attention of your audience, here are some quick tips on your opening statements. 

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Key tips on the opening statement in your keynote speech

• Name someone central to your message
• Use a provocative question
• Use a short, pithy quote
• Start with a personal association
• Tell an Interesting and relatable Story
• Paint a picture with your words, and so on…

How long should a keynote speech be?

Usually, the maximum length of the keynote speech depends majorly on the skill of the speaker. Therefore, the minimum length of the keynote speech depends on how long the speaker will need to make an impact on the audience.

You will know when the keynote does not last long enough when the message said by the speaker doesn’t have a deep effect on the audience. Additionally, the length of the keynote speech depends on the time allocated to the event. 

Examples of Excellent Keynote Speeches 

If you follow the instructions above, you won’t even need examples to sharpen your skills. However, here are some of the examples you can check out to give you a deeper understanding of keynote speeches

• Fire Antony speech
• A speech by Briana Scurry

With these two examples, you will be able to draft your speech in no time. 

To wrap it all up…

A keynote speech is an incredible way to get over public speaking and be able to introduce yourself to the audience. It doesn’t matter the number of people in the gathering. Always remember to count every opportunity that comes your way. 

Also, a great speech is not one that strings different elements together-no siree! A great speech is one that weaves them in the minds of the audience in such a way that they are not able to tell the difference between the segments. The speech shouldn’t be repetitive or random. It should be something that you sat down and constructed to perfection. 

Give the audience something that they can remember you by. A speech that will make them concentrate on the best course of action. Someone once told me that, ‘words can change the world’ and I believe it. Now, this is your opportunity to change the world. 

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A unique Keynote template featuring a design inspired by the Neuromorphic design concept. The embossed shapes and elements give this presentation a very unusual yet interesting look and feel. It includes 32 slides.

Free Modern Keynote Template

Another free Keynote template you can use to craft various business and professional presentations. This template also includes lots of editable graphics and charts as well.

Playteech – Creative & Colorful Keynote Template

A very creative and colorful Keynote template you can use to design various business, agency, and professional presentations. It lets you choose from 50 different slides to craft a unique slideshow. The template also features editable graphics and image placeholders.

Mandela – Bold Keynote Presentation Template

This Keynote template features a set of bold slides with a unique design. It’s perfect for creative professionals, agencies, and modern brands. The template includes 30 unique slides with different designs. And you can also customize it to your preference.

Indokea – Modern Keynote Presentation Template

Indokea is a modern Keynote template featuring more than 30 stylish slides. While it’s been designed with interior design presentations in mind, you can customize it to create slideshows for other topics as well.

Namakoro – Business Presentation Keynote Template

If you’re looking for a presentation template with a clean and minimal design, look no further. This Keynote template comes with a set of minimal slides you can use to create all kinds of business presentations. It includes 23 different slide layouts.

Free Business Profile Keynote Template

This is a free Keynote template you can use to design company profile and other business presentations. It lets you choose from lots of different styles of slides with editable graphics, image placeholders, and transition animations.

Business & Management Keynote Presentation Template

You can design modern and attractive presentations for brands and businesses using this Keynote template. It comes with 30 unique slides that you can customize however you like to make the slideshow your own. There are also editable graphics and free fonts included in the template.

Trendy – Keynote Presentation Template

This Keynote template is a great choice for designing presentations for lifestyle brands. It features 25 slides with modern and visual designs along with plenty of space for showcasing images and graphics.

Vado – Brandbook Keynote Template

Vado is a professional Keynote template for crafting brand guides. It will allow you to design high-quality presentations to showcase your brand guidelines in a creative way. The template comes in dark and light themes as well as 3 color schemes.

ROVATE – Portfolio Keynote Template

Rovate is a portfolio presentation template that comes with a unique technology-themed design. It features a futuristic slide design that will make your presentations stand out from the crowd. The template includes 20 unique slides.

Ourea – Free Minimal Keynote Template

This free Keynote template is most suitable for agency and business presentations as it comes with a minimalist slide design. You can choose from more than 40 different slides to create stylish presentations using this template.

Momonom – Business Keynote Template

This Keynote template is the perfect choice for designing a professional presentation for corporate businesses and agencies. It includes 30 unique slides with clean designs. You can also easily edit and customize the shapes, colors, and fonts as well.

Conference – Simple Keynote Template

Just as the name suggests, this template is made just for crafting slideshows for conference presentations. It comes with a total of 150 slides featuring 5 different color schemes to choose from. The template includes image placeholders for easier editing.

Education – Creative Keynote Template

This colorful and creative Keynote template is ideal for creating presentations related to education. You can choose from 30 different slide layouts to design the perfect slideshow for your school or college.

Emuscile – Business Keynote Template

Business presentations need to be created in a way to project professionalism. This presentation template is designed to help you achieve that goal. It features a professional design with clean and modern slide layouts. It includes 30 unique slides and they are also available in 5 different color schemes.

Narza – Creative Keynote Template

Narza is a creative Keynote template that features 30 unique slide designs. This template features a unique content design and color use that makes it a great choice for creative agencies and freelancers. The template is fully customizable and includes master slides as well.

The Agency – Modern Keynote Template

Just as the name suggests, this template is made specifically for agencies of all kinds. It comes with a clean slide design that allows you to effectively highlight the content of your presentation. The template includes a total of 150 slides and allows you to choose from 5 color schemes.

Colorado – Business Keynote Template

Colorado is a stylish Keynote template designed for modern and casual businesses. The template comes with 30 unique slide layouts that are easily customizable to change colors, fonts, and shapes. It also includes image placeholders as well.

Look Book – Free Stylish Keynote Template

This is a free Keynote template you can use to craft a stylish look book presentation. It features 20 unique slide designs that put large images on the center stage. The template also includes master slide layouts as well.

Balance – Business Keynote Template

Balance is a modern Keynote template made specifically for small to medium businesses. It includes a set of clean and stylish slides you can use to showcase your business profile and projects. The template comes with 30 unique slides with editable colors and shapes.

Armio – Modern Business Keynote Template

A minimal and creative business Keynote template. This template features a minimal and clean design. And it comes with image placeholders, gallery and portfolio slides, 5 different color schemes, and 30 custom slide layouts.

Intsec – Internet Security Keynote Template

Modern security and internet security startups will find this template quite useful. It includes multiple slides you can customize to create a killer presentation to talk about internet security. It also comes in 3 pre-made color versions.

KLINIK – Clinical Case Medical Keynote Template

This Keynote template is most suitable for creating different types of medical presentations, especially including clinical case studies. The template comes with 30 slides featuring modern designs. And you can easily customize each slide to your preference.

Free Multipurpose Keynote Template

The perfect free Keynote template for creating all kinds of presentations. This template comes with a set of slides that can be easily customized to make different types of slides. It includes a total of 20 slide designs and master slides.

Classy – Multipurpose Keynote Template

Classy is a multipurpose Keynote template that comes with 30 unique slide designs. It’s available in 5 different color schemes, making a total of 150 slides. It also includes free fonts and editable vector graphics as well.

Lookbook – Minimal Keynote Template

This beautifully minimalist Keynote template features a simple and clean design. It’s perfect for all kinds of creative presentations. The template comes with a total of 150 slides in 5 color schemes.

Coffee – Modern Keynote Presentation

Even though this Keynote template uses coffee as its theme, you can customize it to design many different types of presentations as well. It includes 20 unique slide layouts with modern and visual designs.

VACANZA – Creative Travel Keynote Template

If you’re working on a presentation for a travel agency or a company, this template is for you. It includes 30 unique slides that can be easily customized to your preference.

Air – Free Minimal Keynote Template

This free Keynote template comes with 60 slide layouts featuring editable graphics, vector icons, image placeholders and much more. You can use it for free with personal projects.

Purella – Business Keynote Template

This is a modern Keynote template featuring a set of clean slides. You can use this template to create effective slideshows for various business presentations. The template includes 30 unique slides in 5 different color schemes.

BESTA – Corporate Keynote Template

This colorful and simple Keynote template is made for all kinds of corporate and business presentations. The template includes an easily customizable design you can edit to change colors, fonts, and replace images. It comes with 30 unique slides.

Bishack – Modern Keynote Template

Bishack is another professional Keynote template featuring a clean and minimal set of slides. The template is ideal for making creative agency and startup presentations. It lets you choose from 30 different slide layouts in 5 color schemes.

Horizone – Minimal Keynote Template

This ultra-minimalist Keynote template is perfect for designing creative brand, fashion, photography, and various other presentations. The template comes with 50 unique slides featuring image placeholders, editable graphics, master slides, and much more.

REALHOM – Real Estate Keynote Template

If you’re designing a presentation for a real-estate business, this Keynote template is a great option for making a more attractive slideshow. The template includes 30 easily editable slide layouts.

The Services – Free Keynote Template

This is a simple and free Keynote template made for agencies and creative professionals. The template includes 20 unique slides with easily editable designs. It’s ideal for showcasing your services and promoting your brand.

BizDek – Free Pitch Deck Keynote Template

BizDek is a free Keynote template you can use to create an effective pitch deck to present various business ideas and projects. This template includes 120 slide designs in both light and dark color themes.

Neural – Elegant Keynote Template

This Keynote template is a great choice for designing presentations related to fashion, photography, and interior design. It comes with 30 slide designs featuring layouts filled with stylish graphics and image placeholders.

Case – Minimal Keynote Template

Case is a minimalist Keynote template made for creative agencies and freelancers. The template includes many useful slide designs such as portfolio slides, team slides, and more for showcasing your skills and agency more effectively.

Marian – Creative Agency Keynote Template

A creative Keynote template that’s ideal for designing presentations for creative agencies and design studios. The template includes 35 unique slides featuring colorful designs. You can easily customize each slide to your preference as well.

Cruch – Creative Keynote Template

Cruch is a modern and creative Keynote presentation template featuring a clean and professional design. The template comes with 30 unique slides with resizable graphics, vector icons, image placeholders, and much more. It’s perfect for making creative agency, business, and corporate presentations.

HIGHLIGHT – Modern Keynote Template

Highlight is a colorful Keynote template that comes with creative slide designs filled with colors. You can use this template to make all kinds of fashion, photography, and branding related presentations. The template also includes unique portfolio slides, editable vector graphics, image placeholders, and more.

KETON – Stylish Keynote Template

Keton Keynote template features a clean and minimal design. It also includes a creative line-based design style throughout its slide design. The template comes with 50 unique slides with 3D vector infographics, icons, customizable color options, and other elements.

CORONA – Creative Keynote Template

Corona comes with a modern design that allows you to capture the audience’s attention with lots of image-based content slides. The template comes with 30 unique slides that are available in 5 different color schemes. It also includes image placeholders for easier editing.

Fashion – Modern Keynote Template

This colorful and attractive Keynote template is designed specifically for making fashion catalog and creative portfolio presentations. It features unique slides with editable colors and vector graphics. The template is also available in Full HD resolution.

Creative Six – Free Keynote Template

This free Keynote template comes with 20 unique slide designs featuring drag and drop image placeholders, icons, graphics, and much more for creating stylish slideshows for business and creative presentations.

Colorful Portfolio – Free Keynote Template

A colorful and attractive Keynote template that’s ideal for crafting presentations for creative portfolios. The template includes 20 slides filled with beautiful animations.

Note – Minimal Keynote Template

Note is a minimalist Keynote template that features a modern and creative design. The template comes with 30 unique slides in 5 different color schemes. The slides in this template also include multipurpose designs, which will allow you to make many different types of presentations.

LIBERO – Colorful & Creative Keynote Template

Libero is an attractive Keynote template for making modern portfolio and business showcase presentations. The template includes 30 unique slides with infographics, vector graphics, icons, image placeholders, and much more.

Doffy – Creative Keynote Template

Doffy is a clean and professional Keynote presentation template you can use to design agency, startup, and creative business presentation slideshows. It comes with 30 unique slides with resizable vector graphics and drag and drop editing.

Alegro – Fashion Keynote Presentation

Alegro Keynote template is the perfect template for designing slideshows for modern fashion catalog, photography, and design-related presentations. The template includes more than 50 unique slides.

Light – Modern Minimal Keynote Template

This minimalist Keynote template includes more than 150 slides with clean and professional designs. You can use this template to design presentations for startups and modern businesses. it ‘s also available in 5 pre-made color schemes as well.

Pattern – Free Modern Keynote Template

Pattern is a modern Keynote template you can use for free with your personal projects to present bold ideas, creative business profiles, and even portfolios. It includes 10 unique slide layouts.

Every – Free Keynote & PowerPoint Template

Every is another creative and minimalist Keynote presentation template. The free template includes 10 slide designs with vector graphics. It also comes with a PowerPoint version as well.

Look – Modern Keynote Template

Look is a modern Keynote template that comes with a colorful slide design filled with lots of images. The template features an easily customizable design and includes image placeholders, predefined text styles, and editable colors.

Purpleline – Creative Keynote Template

Purpleline Keynote template features an attractive and professional design that takes full advantage of bright colors and shapes. The template comes with a total of 150 slides, featuring 30 unique slides in 5 different color schemes.

RITS – Minimal Keynote Template

RITS is a minimal Keynote template that also utilizes a lot of visuals to convey your message effectively in each slide. It includes image placeholders, editable vectors, changeable colors, and much more.

Creative Agency – Keynote Template

Creative Agency is a modern Keynote template you can use to craft presentations for marketing, business, sales, and startup related events. The template comes with 50 unique slides with 3D infographics, charts, graphs, and much more.

Boeotian – Dark Modern Keynote Template

Boeotian is a unique Keynote that features an attractive dark color theme, which effectively highlights the content. However, the colors can be easily changed to your preference as well. It comes with 50 unique slides.

Case Study – Free Keynote Template

If you’re looking for a simple free Keynote template to create a slideshow to present your case studies and business reports, this template will come in handy. It includes 20 unique slides in HD resolution.

Business Plan – Free Keynote Template

Another creative Keynote template you can use to create business-related presentations. This template includes lots of shapes, icons, and attractive transition animations as well.

Minimal Layout – Keynote Template

Minimal Layout has a creative set of slides with modern and minimalist designs. The template comes with 50 unique slides featuring editable colors, icons, infographics, and more.

Model – Fashion Keynote Template

Model is a highly visual Keynote template that’s most suitable for creating slideshows for fashion, apparel, and photography related presentations. It includes more than 50 unique slides with image placeholders and customizable design elements.

Educa – Keynote Presentation Template

Educa is a great Keynote template ideal for colleges, schools, and education related businesses for creating powerful presentations. The template comes with 50 unique slides featuring free fonts, 500 icons, mockups, and much more.

Soma – Business Keynote Template

Soma is a minimalist Keynote template designed for making slideshows for business presentations. The template includes 30 unique slides in 5 different color schemes.

Vision – Corporate Keynote Template

Vision is the perfect Keynote template you can use to craft an effective presentation for corporate businesses. It includes 50 unique slides featuring charts, graphs, infographics, and lots of other useful vector graphics.

Color – Free Creative Keynote Template

This colorful and visually appealing Keynote template is ideal for making fashion and portfolio presentations. The template includes over 10 creative slide designs.

Ravi – Free Minimal Keynote Template

Ravi is a beautifully minimalist Keynote template you can download and use for free to create various types of presentations. It comes with 10 unique slides featuring image placeholders.

Motion – Elegant Keynote Template

Motion is a modern Keynote template with a creative design. The template features a highly visual design filled with colorful graphics, images, and effects. It comes with 30 unique slides in 5 different color themes and it includes a unique infographic, lots of illustrations, and a portfolio slide.

Studio – Minimal Presentation Keynote Template

Studio is a minimalist Keynote presentation template that features a clean and a B&W design. This template is perfect for presenting design projects and creating presentations related to creative agencies. The template includes 120 unique slides and comes in both animated and non-animated versions.

Havoc – Creative Keynote Template

Havoc is a Keynote template made specifically for creating marketing and promotion related presentations. The template comes with a total of 150 slides featuring lots of vector graphics, illustrations, infographics, icons, charts, and more.

B2B – Marketing and Sales Keynote Template

If you’re working on a B2B presentation, this Keynote template will come in handy. This template comes with more than 60 unique slides you can use to create B2B presentations for growth projections, meetings, and promotions. The template comes in 8 premade color schemes and you can easily edit the slides to your preference as well.

BLOCKCHAIN – Keynote Template

Blockchain is a rising trend in technology and business. This unique Keynote template will help you create all kinds of presentation slideshows related to blockchain technology. It includes 150 beautifully designed slides featuring photo galleries, infographics, diagrams, and much more.

MAXPRO – Keynote Presentation Template

MaxPro is a professional Keynote presentation template made for creating slideshows for team meetings and other business-related presentations. It comes with 30 unique slides with clean and modern designs. The template is available in 9 different versions and in 5 different color themes.

Business Plan Keynote Template

Just as the title suggests, this Keynote template features lots of slides that you can use to create attractive presentations to showcase your business plans of all kinds. It comes with 70 unique slides featuring problem and solution slides, marketing plans, projection slides, and much more.

Bravo – Keynote Presentation Template

Bravo is a modern and elegant Keynote presentation that comes with a creative design. It’s perfect for making presentations for design agencies, visual brands, and fashion brands. The template includes 50 unique slides with easily customizable colors.

Thumper – Keynote Presentation Template

Thumper is a modern Keynote presentation template that comes with more than 100 unique slides. The template features lots of multipurpose slides that you can use to create marketing, business, creative, and many other types of presentations.

Portfolio Keynote Template

This Keynote template is designed specifically for designers, artists, and creatives for making presentations to showcase their portfolio. The template comes with 20 master slides in 2 different sizes filled with lots of visual elements, vector graphics, icons, and much more.

Pitch Deck Keynote Template

If you’re creating a presentation for a startup or an agency to pitch a product or an idea, this template is the best Keynote template you can use for that job. With more than 150 unique slides, this Keynote file comes in 10 variations of the template in light and dark color themes.

Green Freshness Keynote Template

This template is ideal for a health or environment-related businesses to create engaging presentations to get your message across to everyone. It’s available in both standard and widescreen slide sizes.

Dukku Keynote Template

Dukku is a professionally designed Keynote template that features a design that’s ideal for advertising-related presentations. It comes in both light and dark color versions and includes charts, graphs, infographics, and more.

Bento Keynote Template

This minimalist Keynote template comes with 80 unique slides that are perfect for creating presentations for many types of businesses. It also includes 28 icon slides, diagrams, infographics, illustrations, and more.

Munch Keynote Template

Munch is a Keynote template that’s best for creating presentations for marketing agencies. In addition to the brilliant color use, this template also features a minimal design that captures attention. The template also features easy to use image placeholders, graphs, illustrations, and editable charts.

Cursa Keynote Template

A colorful and modern Keynote template best for promoting web and graphic design related businesses. This template includes 35 unique slides with both light and dark themes and plenty of different color schemes.

Travel Keynote Template

The perfect template for creating a presentation for a travel agency or a travel-related product. This Keynote template features 30 unique slides in 5 color variations.

Latte Keynote Template

The dark color theme of this Keynote template makes it perfect for creating presentations for promoting high-end products and luxury businesses. It includes 20 unique slides in 2 different sizes.

Be. Keynote Template

Be. is an attractive Keynote template that allows you to create presentations using lots of images to better highlight your message and products. The template includes over 125 unique slides and drag and drop image replacements.

Becik – Creative Keynote Template

This colorful template features a modern design that’s suitable for creating presentations and slideshows for many different occasions. It comes with 70 unique slides in HD resolution featuring lots of graphics, charts, graphs, and elements.

Sound Vision Keynote Template

A bright and colorful Keynote template for creating growth projections and other business-related presentations. This template 20 unique slides with easily editable high-resolution slides.

Wellbeing Keynote Template

If you’re looking to create a slideshow for a fitness, yoga, or other health and wellbeing related business, this template will come in handy. It includes 20 slides that you can easily customize to your preference.

Brush Keynote Template

A creative and a highly professional Keynote template that comes to you in 5 different color variations. This template features 30 unique slides with a custom infographic, device mockups, and plenty of other graphics.

Verzus Minimal Keynote Template

Yet another minimalist, and stylish, Keynote template that comes with over 200 unique slides divided into categories, more than 3,000 vector icons, mockups, and much more.

Ourea – Creative Keynote Template

A stunning Keynote template featuring over 75 unique slides and a set of 500 font icons. This template is ideal for designing presentations for creative agencies.

Good Pitch – Elegant Keynote Template

If you’re designing a presentation with minimalist slides, this template will come in handy. The fully editable slides in this Keynote template feature a minimalist design with fewer colors and it comes with over 500 vector and font icons.

Eureka – Minimal Keynote Template

Eureka is a professionally designed Keynote template for creating modern presentations with a minimal design. It comes with more than 200 unique slides in both light and dark color themes.

Motagua – Multipurpose Keynote Template

This massive Keynote template comes with a total of over 25000 slides in 16 different color schemes. The template also includes a pack of 3000 vector icons, drag-and-drop editing, and a whole bunch of unique slides for presenting your business in different ways.

Vision Minimal Keynote Template

The minimalist slides in this Keynote template also come with stunning animations. It includes more than 100 unique slides that are ideal for creating startups, products, and app presentations.

Voda – Creative Keynote Template

This template uses a darker theme and a unique design featuring the perfect colors for a marketing related presentation. The template includes 50 unique slides in 5 themes.

Marketofy – Ultimate Keynote Template

Marketofy is the ideal Keynote template marketers can use to create marketing campaigns, promotions, and business projection presentations. This template includes 200 unique slides in 6 different color schemes.

Exalio – Keynote Template

This is a multi-purpose Keynote template that’s suitable for presentations related to both startups and corporate businesses. It comes with 135 unique slides featuring graphs, charts, infographics, and much more.

Business Proposal Keynote Template

If you’re planning a presentation for a business proposal, this Keynote template will come in handy. The template comes with a total of 4000 slides in 10 different color schemes and in HD resolution.

Harmony – Multipurpose Keynote Template

Harmony is a Keynote template that features 200 unique slides with a modern and a clean design. The slides are also available in 20 different color schemes which also includes more than 3000 vector icons, charts, graphs, and much more.

MARK 04 – Keynote Template

This template includes more than 260 unique slides in both dark and light color themes. The slides are also fully animated and come with drag-and-drop placeholders for easy editing.

The X-note Keynote Template

This modern Keynote template also features dark and light colored slides. It features more than 40 unique slides with animations and they are available in 4 different color themes.

Ever – Multipurpose Keynote Template

Ever is a Keynote template that’s been designed specifically for professionals. It features highly optimized slides for crafting effective presentations. The template also comes with a total of 16,000 slides with unlimited color options.

Company Profile Keynote Template

This Keynote template is perfect for creating a presentation that showcases startups, agencies, and businesses. It includes a total of 2600 slides and comes in 10 different color schemes.

Business Development Keynote Template

This template includes more than 4200 slides for creating presentations that highlight growth and projections. The slides in this template also feature graphs, infographics, charts, and much more as well.

Republic – Multipurpose Keynote Template

With more than 1500 slides in 7 different color schemes and featuring infographics, charts, and infographics, this Keynote template will allow you to create almost any type of business presentation with ease.

Concept Keynote Template

The ideal Keynote template for pitching or presenting your business ideas and concepts. This template comes with over 150 unique slides (total 15,000 slides) in various colors and themes.

Keynote Template Professional Pack

We’ll start the list with a massive pack of Keynote templates that includes 650 unique slides in 20 different categories and styles and 10 color themes that are suitable for various types of presentations.

Business Growth Keynote Template

With 200 beautiful slides in 8 different themes (total 1500 slides) this Keynote template is just what you need for crafting a great presentation for your business growth and projection meetings.

Vinapo – Multipurpose Keynote Template

This is a multipurpose Keynote template that you can use with both business and personal needs. It comes with over 200 unique slides in 24 themes and in 4 aspect ratios.

Start up Best Keynote template

This template comes with over 600 slides in light and dark themes, along with 500 vector line icons, vector maps, and more. Best for pitching startups and agencies.

Bunggi – Multipurpose Keynote Template

A colorful and a beautiful Keynote template that effectively use photography and icons to instantly grab anyone attention. The template includes 50 slides with charts and a world map.

Deluxe Digital Keynote Template

With 171 unique slides, 850 vector icons, and fully editable vector maps and infographics, this Keynote template provides you with all the necessary tools for crafting great slides for your next business presentation.

Triangle – Clean trend Keynote Template

The unique use of the triangle shape is an interesting feature that makes this Keynote template more suitable for creative agencies. It comes with 60 unique slides.

Dart – Creative Multipurpose Keynote Template

A creative Keynote template with an odd, yet a remarkably unique design that is guaranteed to catch anyone’s attention. It’s ideal for designing a presentation related to fashion.

Startup Company Pitch Deck Keynote Template

The 70 unique slides and 2500 vectors icons in this Keynote template will come in handy when designing a presentation to pitch your startup to investors.

Monterat Keynote Template

A professionally designed Keynote template with charts, infographics, mockups, and much more. It includes over 160 slides.

Sketch Keynote Template

Sketch is a unique Keynote template that features a design that makes its slides look like they were hand-drawn. It includes charts, growth maps, and much more.

Forest – Multipurpose Keynote Template

This template comes with 233 unique slides in 24 themes with resizable vector graphics and 3000 vector icons.

Se7en Keynote Template

Se7en is a minimalist Keynote template designed for creative agencies and startups. The template includes 100 unique slides featuring a variety of designs and elements such as maps, graphs, portfolios, and much more. There are more than 230 slides in total.

Best Proposal Keynote Template

The humorous illustrations featured in the slides is what makes this Keynote template so special. It’ll help you deliver your message in a fun way during your presentations.

Stampede – Multipurpose Keynote Template

This massive template comes with over 7500 slides, including 370 unique slides in 10 color themes and over 3000 vector icons.

Fox – Ultimate Keynote Template

A clean and minimal Keynote template that features 400 unique animated slides, over 2500 vector icons, editable vector graphics, and much more.

Max Creative Keynote Template

This modern and clean Keynote template uses only a few colors throughout its design. It’s perfect for a creative business or an agency.

Marketing Kit – Keynote Template

A Keynote template specially designed for marketing related presentations. This template comes with 174 professionally designed slides.

Boost Business Keynote Template

With a total of 900 slides in 5 color themes, including light and dark themes, this Keynote template comes with lots of graphics, charts, and infographics as well.

Revisual Keynote Template

A professionally designed Keynote template with modern and stylish slides. This template comes with over 200 animated slides.

Lynx Keynote Template

This template is more suitable for home interior, furniture, and design related businesses. It comes with 100 unique slides with lots of photos and vector icons.

Gamuda – Keynote Template

Yet another attractive Keynote template with stylish illustrations that will make your entire presentation look more enjoyable. The template includes over 130 slides with beautiful graphics and illustrations.

CupCake Keynote Template

There are a lot of cupcakes in this template. But, that doesn’t necessarily mean this Keynote template is only suitable for a cupcake business. Replace the photos with your own photos and the template is yours. Although, it’s mostly suitable for a food related business.

Vertilla – Brand Guideline Keynote Template

Vertilla is a creative and minimalist Keynote template you can use to create presentations for agencies and businesses. It’s most suitable for making company profile, marketing, and branding related slideshows. The template includes 48 animated slide designs.

BROSHE – Minimal Keynote Template

Brosche is a highly minimalist Keynote template that features a simple design with black and white colors. The multipurpose design of the slides in this template will help you craft all types of presentations and it includes image placeholders for easily replacing the images as well.

Daging – Keynote Presentation Template

Daging is a Keynote template designed for making food and restaurant related presentations. However, you can easily customize it to design other types of slideshows as well. The template includes 30 slides in Full HD resolution.

PRADIC – Creative Keynote Template

This creative and modern Keynote template features an easily customizable design with changeable colors and image placeholders. The template is most suitable for making company profile and business meeting presentations.

Hesna – Minimal Keynote Template

Hesna is another minimalist Keynote template featuring fewer colors and design elements. The template comes with a clean and uncluttered design with proper content formatting. It’s perfect for making marketing, sales, and creative presentations slideshows.

All of these Keynote templates are super-easy to edit. You can edit the designs, drag around to rearrange objects, change colors, and do a whole lot more to design your own unique Keynote presentations.

6 Quick Tips for Creating a Keynote Presentation

If you’re new to Keynote and making presentation slideshows, these quick tips will help you get a head start!

1. Get a Great Template

Keynote app comes with a set of simple default templates for creating different types of presentations. These templates are the ones used in most presentation slideshows because many people don’t realize they can actually use third-party templates to design better slideshows.

If you want to make a set of professional slides with designs that stand out from the crowd, you should always avoid the default templates and use a third-party template. These templates are designed by professionals and you can import them to Keynote with just a few clicks.

2. Follow the K.I.S.S. Method

Once you pick a design for your slides, you can start thinking about the content layout. If you pick a great template, you’ll find plenty of slides with content layouts already designed for you. If not, simply follow the Keep It Stupid Simple (KISS) method.

You can never go wrong with a clean and simple content layout for a slideshow. With a minimal design, you use fewer text paragraphs, fewer images, and lots of white space. This kind of design gives full attention to the most important part of a presentation—it’s content!

3. Use Images Where Appropriate

Using images in a slideshow can not only help make your presentations more visually appealing but it also allows you to add better context to your written content.

Depending on the type of presentation you’re making, you should pick slide designs that are appropriate. For example, if you’re making a portfolio slideshow, you should pick a slide design that allows you to include large previews of images.

4. Add Graphs, Charts, and Infographics

Mentioning the statistics from research studies is a great way to validate the points you make in your presentations. However, if you visualize the data it will help make a bigger impact.

Many professional Keynote presentation templates come packed with charts, graphs, diagrams, and infographics that allow you to showcase data in visual form. Use those elements in your presentations.

5. Choose the Right Font

Using a bold and attractive font that also improve readability is another important aspect of designing a professional presentation slideshow.

Thankfully, most pre-made Keynote templates feature great free fonts that you can use with your own slideshow designs. Or try to download a better font and use it instead of resorting to the default fonts on your Mac.

6. Limit the Use of Color

When it comes to designing presentations for specific industries and topics like marketing, business reports, and pitch decks, it’s best to use a simple color palette with fewer colors.

Adding too many colors throughout your presentation design can often break consistency and send a bad impression of your brand and your company. Instead, use a clean and minimal design.

Did you know that you can also export your Keynote presentations as Full HD Quicktime videos? Just go to File > Export To > and select QuickTime to save your entire presentation as a video. Or Play your presentation and press Record to record your presentation with a voiceover into a video file that you can play to an audience.

3 Reasons to Choose Keynote over PowerPoint

Not sure if Keynote is the right choice for you? Here are 3 reasons to try the great Apple software.

1. It’s Free!

Keynote app comes bundled with your Apple device for free. Whether you have a MacBook, iPhone, or iPad, you can install and use Keynote free of charge to design presentations.

Microsoft PowerPoint, on the other hand, requires a subscription. The Office 365 personal plan costs $69.99 per year.

2. Amazing Animations

One of the PowerPoint features Micorosft neglected to update is its animations. Over the years, the animations and transition effects in PowerPoint have always been clunky and unprofessional. Except for a very few animations.

Keynote features a set of smooth animations and transition effects that adds a professional touch to your presentations.

3. Beginner-Friendly User Interface

PowerPoint has one of the most complicated user interfaces in the entire suite of Microsoft Office apps. The UI is filled with options and features people barely use and it interferes with everyone’s user experience.

Apple Keynote features a clean and user-friendly user interface that’s easier to get around, even for complete beginners.

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How to Write a Keynote Speech

Last Updated: October 28, 2022 Fact Checked

This article was co-authored by Lynn Kirkham . Lynn Kirkham is a Professional Public Speaker and Founder of Yes You Can Speak, a San Francisco Bay Area-based public speaking educational business empowering thousands of professionals to take command of whatever stage they've been given - from job interviews, boardroom talks to TEDx and large conference platforms. Lynn was chosen as the official TEDx Berkeley speaker coach for the last four years and has worked with executives at Google, Facebook, Intuit, Genentech, Intel, VMware, and others. There are 9 references cited in this article, which can be found at the bottom of the page. This article has been fact-checked, ensuring the accuracy of any cited facts and confirming the authority of its sources. This article has been viewed 104,745 times.

A good keynote speech is gripping and inspiring. It sets the tone for the event, program, or conference, and it can really unify the audience. If you’ve been invited to write and give a keynote speech (congrats!), you might not be sure where to start, or maybe you’re looking for tips to elevate your speech to the next level. Either way, we’ve got you covered! This article will walk you through how to craft a memorable keynote speech from start to finish.

Brainstorming Ideas for the Keynote Speech

• If there is a theme of the event, you may use this as your purpose or inspiration for the speech. For example, if the theme of the event is “Social Responsibility,” the purpose of your speech may be to explore your experiences with social responsibility on a professional and personal level.

• For example, if your audience is within an age range of 20-30 and are social responsibility advocates, you may make the speech light, engaging, and full of specialized language that you know your audience will understand.

• For example, if you are writing a speech around the theme of social responsibility, you may focus on three key points: the history of social responsibility, the current state of social responsibility, and where social responsibility is headed next.

• You can find the top keynote speeches of 2016 at https://www.bigspeak.com/best-keynote-speakers-of-2016 .

Crafting the Keynote Speech

• For example, if you are writing a keynote speech on diversity in the classroom, you may tell a story about a student of color that you worked with in your classroom as a teacher.
• You may also look in the news for a story about a student of color who publicly spoke out about difficulties with diversity in the classroom, preferably a news story based in your area or country.

• For example, if the purpose of your speech is to discuss social responsibility in the corporate world, you may open with a fact about how consumers tend to buy more if a brand is socially responsible.

• For example, your purpose may appear as, “I am here today to talk to you about social responsibility, the theme of this conference and the theme of much of my professional work.”

• For example, you may make a funny aside that is self-deprecating, such as, “I wasn’t always a great teacher. Sometimes, I was known as the fun teacher or the angry teacher. Not always the great one.”

• For example, you may highlight terms like “unity,” “engagement,” and “social consciousness” in your speech by returning to them at least twice. You may begin the speech by mentioning these terms and then return to them again later in the speech.

• For example, you may use a funny saying that you use with your students in your classroom in the speech. Or you may use less formal words and terms to keep the tone of the speech conversational.

• For example, you may have a call to action that refers to the story or fact you used at the beginning of your speech: “Just like my student who reached out to a peer in need, I ask you all now to be vulnerable, to try to reach out to someone in your community who needs help.”

Polishing the Keynote Speech

• When you read the speech aloud, notice if you skip over any words. You may be able to remove any words you skip over for flow.
• If you read the speech aloud to others, you can ask them for feedback. Ask them if they found any parts of the speech boring or hard to follow. Be open to getting constructive feedback on the speech so it is at its best.

• Correct punctuation is especially important if you are going to read the speech aloud to an audience, as the punctuation will tell you when to pause or take a breath. Often, a comma means pausing in your speech and a period means taking a short breath.

• If there is a time constraint for the speech, you should also time yourself reading the speech to confirm it is within the limit.

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• ↑ https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/brainstorming/
• ↑ Lynn Kirkham. Public Speaking Coach. Expert Interview. 20 November 2019.
• ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mitch-ditkoff/post_3868_b_1868754.html
• ↑ https://professional.dce.harvard.edu/blog/10-tips-for-improving-your-public-speaking-skills/
• ↑ https://www.toastmasters.org/Magazine/Articles/Six-Rules-of-Humor
• ↑ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffschmitt/2013/07/16/10-keys-to-writing-a-speech/#25d3cdba4fb7
• ↑ https://open.lib.umn.edu/publicspeaking/chapter/11-2-steps-of-a-conclusion/
• ↑ https://writingcenter.unc.edu/tips-and-tools/reading-aloud/
• ↑ https://www.unr.edu/writing-speaking-center/student-resources/writing-speaking-resources/editing-and-proofreading-techniques

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A good keynote speech is inspiring and can set the tone for an entire event. Start your speech with an engaging anecdote to grab your listeners' attention. The story can be from your own experience and should relate to the topic of the event. Then, tell your audience what the purpose of your speech is. You might say something like, “I am here to talk to you today about social responsibility, which is the theme of the conference and the theme of my professional work." Use a little humor and a light-hearted tone to keep the speech engaging and make it more memorable. Make sure to write the speech along the lines of how you normally talk so it sounds natural when read out loud. At the end of your speech, finish with a strong call to action. This part of the speech should compel listeners to do something to help the cause. For example, if you're giving a speech for a humane society, you may encourage listeners to volunteer at their local shelter. To learn how to polish your keynote speech, read more from our Writing co-author! Did this summary help you? Yes No

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