About Show & Tell
Show & Tell is a specialist presentation strategy, design and coaching agency. Since 2015, we have helped businesses turn complex ideas into clear, persuasive presentations for audiences that matter.
Founded
2015
What we do
Strategy · Design · Coaching
How we work
Senior-led, story first
Our story
When Show & Tell started in 2015, most presentation work began with the slides. We believed the bigger opportunity came earlier, with three questions:
What does the audience need to understand?
What should they remember?
What needs to change by the end?
That belief shaped the way we work. We study the business first, find the story worth telling, then use design to make that thinking easier to understand.
Today the tools have changed. AI helps us research, explore and iterate faster. The thinking still comes first.
What we believe
A presentation should be built around what the audience needs to understand, not everything the company wants to say.
Beautiful slides cannot rescue a weak story. We get the argument right first, then design it.
More information rarely makes a presentation more persuasive. Knowing what to leave out is part of the job.
We use new tools to explore more possibilities, not to hand the thinking over to a machine.
Human + AI
AI makes it easy to produce polished slides quickly. It also makes a lot of presentations look and sound the same.
We use AI where it helps: to research, organise information, explore directions and test more ideas. The final decisions stay with people.
Our model
Show & Tell is a focused, senior-led specialist agency. Strategy, client direction and quality control stay with a senior lead from the first conversation to the final presentation.
When a project needs it, we bring in specialist creative support to strengthen the final outcome.
The model is lean on purpose. It keeps us close to the work, lets us move quickly and keeps the standard high.
Who leads the work
Name and role to be added
Every project is led by a senior lead who takes part in the first conversation, shapes the strategy and narrative direction, and stays close to the client relationship throughout. They review the final presentation before it goes out, so the story, the design and the details hold up together. When a project needs more hands, we bring in specialist writers, designers, researchers or coaches, but the direction and final quality stay with the same person.
Experience
Since 2015, Show & Tell has worked on more than 500 presentations, including over 50 pitch decks that have supported more than USD 120 million in fundraising. Our clients work in finance, technology, real estate, startups, construction, energy, manufacturing, consultancy and other sectors. The subjects change, but the job is the same: make complex ideas easy to understand.
Some of the organisations we have worked with
What clients value
The Show & Tell team quickly grasped our objective and crafted our message into a creative and convincing presentation on a very tight deadline. They seamlessly accommodated feedback from an array of stakeholders.
Dumindra Ratnayake
Advisor, 1990 Ambulance Service
“Show & Tell transformed one of my lacklustre PowerPoint presentations into one that was elegant, engaging, and emotive.”
Yukthi Gunesakera
CEO, YKG Associates
“We have been repeat clients because we know they will deliver, often exceeding our expectations.”
Arj Wignaraja
VP – Operations, Remote Sensing Metrics
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