Management Consulting Presentation Essential Training 2025
What you'll learn
- Learn how to build a presentation like a management consultant from scratch
- Explore the basic blocks of a McKinsey-styled presentation
- Understanding storyboarding for business
- Writing powerful key messages
- Using dot-dash storyline and pyramid principle to craft a compelling storyline
- Working with tables, words, and graphics
- Using simple and complex charts to visualize insights
- Apply plan-do-check-act cycle to create a management consulting presentation yourself
- Managing presentation nerves
- Setting up your room for presentation
- Master the system that covers almost everything you need to create compelling, memorable, and persuasive business presentations
- Tips for handling a Q&A section
- Understand essential body language techniques of public speaking
- Learn how to write cover page, agenda, and executive summary like a management consultant
- Learn the complete consulting presentation list to give an outstanding business presentation
- Understand how to prioritize findings from many analyses
- Tips for finding the right data quickly
Requirements
- This course has no pre-requisites. It's designed for anyone who wants to get better creating compelling, memorable, and persuasive business presentations
- In this course, we’ll be working with decks, so it’d be great that you have some hands-on experience in using presentation applications like PowerPoint or Apple keynote
- There are no mandatory prerequisites for this course, you can dive right in
Description
Updated for 2025!
In today’s competitive job market, your presentation skills can make or break your success. As the race for top consulting and management roles intensifies, it’s essential to stand out. You need more than just information — you need to deliver it with impact.
I'm John Burress, and I’m excited to introduce you to the McKinsey presentation system. As a corporate strategist, I’ve applied this powerful approach to help leading businesses achieve remarkable growth. Now, I’m here to share these proven techniques with you.
Did you know that over 80% of clients instinctively prefer presentations that follow the McKinsey system? Its unique structure and clarity set it apart, making complex ideas easy to grasp.
This intensive course is designed to give you a complete understanding of management consulting presentations. Through hands-on learning, you'll gain the skills and confidence to create compelling, client-winning presentations. By the end of the course, you'll be equipped to present like a seasoned consultant.
You’ll explore:
The essential building blocks of a McKinsey-style presentation
The art of storytelling in business
Crafting powerful key messages
Developing smarter storylines using the dot-dash approach and the pyramid principle
Designing storyboards to visualise your narrative
Creating sleek presentations from scratch
Using tables, graphics, and charts to illustrate insights
Delivering presentations with confidence and poise
Managing Q&A sessions like a pro
Mastering body language for maximum impact
According to Forbes, 70% of successful professionals credit their career growth to exceptional presentation skills. Are yours ready to stand out?
If you're serious about taking your communication skills to the next level, this course is for you. Join me today, and together we’ll unlock your full potential.
I look forward to seeing you in class!
Who this course is for:
- Anyone who wants to get better creating a compelling, memorable, and persuasive business presentation and effectively delivering it
- This course should be helpful to all business professional and anyone involved in public speaking and persuasive presentations
- This course is also great for business owners and entrepreneurs who need presentations to support you and pitch your products
- This course will cover all you need to know to get started building a McKinsey styled presentation right from the beginning
- Anyone wanting to use a system to build an elite management consulting presentation
- This course is for anyone looking to improve their presentation skills at any point in their career
Instructor
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
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- 183,090 Students
- 4 Courses
Hello, and welcome.
Thank you for being here. It’s an absolute privilege to have you join this course—especially as part of a growing global community that now includes over 200,000 students across my training programmes.
My name is John Burress. I’m a management consultant by profession, an educator by conviction, and the author of several best-selling titles on strategy and consulting. Over the past few years, I’ve had the opportunity to teach, mentor, and advise a generation of high-performers—many of whom have gone on to join leading firms such as McKinsey, BCG, Bain, and the strategy arms of global corporates and investment institutions. I’ve also had the honor of building one of Udemy’s best-selling courses in the management consulting category, recognised not just for its reach, but for the rigour and relevance of its content.
My background spans roles in financial services and advisory. I spent a formative period within Morgan Stanley’s investment management division, supporting private market transactions, sustainability frameworks, and product innovation at a global level. That experience taught me the difference between insight and noise—between what sounds clever and what drives real, measurable value.
But the real story here isn’t mine—it’s yours.
This course is the culmination of years of frontline consulting experience, distilled into a curriculum that’s designed to prepare you for the real demands of the profession. We cover what actually matters: how to deconstruct complex problems, how to communicate clearly under pressure, how to lead teams, structure engagements, and deliver insight that moves the dial for clients.
We revisit the full arc of consulting—from case cracking and client framing to project design, stakeholder management, and strategic communication. You’ll find frameworks used inside top-tier firms, real-world decision trees, and the exact thinking models I've used in live engagements across sectors.
Every module is built to challenge you, stretch your thinking, and help you perform at the level elite firms require from day one. This is not theory for theory’s sake. This is training that reflects the actual pressure, pace, and precision of consulting work. You’ll learn how to structure your thinking like a McKinsey associate, communicate with the precision of a BCG project lead, and navigate ambiguity like someone who's been in the field, not just the classroom.
What sets this course apart is not just the quality of the content, but the outcomes it delivers. Thousands of students from previous courses have secured offers, earned promotions, or transitioned into high-impact roles across sectors—because they were equipped with tools that actually work in high-stakes environments.
So, if you're here to master the craft, to sharpen your edge, and to take a step closer to becoming the kind of consultant clients trust and colleagues rely on—then you’re in the right place.
Let’s get to work.