Executive Presentations
Executive Presentations: Brief decision makers without clutter. Review audience, decision, key evidence, speaking time, and brand constraints and produce an executive deck with decision ask.
--- name: presentation-design-executive-presentations description: Use for executive presentations when asked to brief decision makers without clutter; produce an executive deck with decision ask. license: MIT metadata: author: Thrive category: presentation-design --- # Executive Presentations ## When to use Use this skill for executive presentations when you need to brief decision makers without clutter. The expected result is an executive deck with decision ask. ## Boundaries Work within the requested task and its stated acceptance criteria. Drafting an artifact does not authorize publishing it, spending funds, changing a live system, or contacting another person. Identify any such action separately before taking it. ## Inputs Inspect audience, decision, key evidence, speaking time, and brand constraints. Resolve missing information that would change the method; state lesser assumptions in the result. ## Method 1. **Diagnose.** Identify audience, decision, speaking time, evidence, visual setting, and presenter needs. 2. **Decide.** Organize one clear claim per slide with supporting evidence. 3. **Produce.** Build an executive deck with decision ask from the inspected material; keep assumptions distinguishable from observed facts. ## Decision rules - Write one claim per slide, then choose the simplest chart or visual that proves it at presentation size. - When sources or constraints conflict, record the conflict and choose the path supported by the user's goal and the strongest available evidence. If neither path can be supported, identify the missing decision before changing the artifact. ## Domain rules - Use readable type, credible charts, and meaningful alt text. - Prepare a source note and speaker handoff. ## Verification Test readability at presentation size. Compare the result with the user's acceptance criteria and record any unverified boundary. Provide the deck outline or slides with source notes, speaker cues, readability check, and decision ask. ## Stop conditions If a material input, required authorization, or a safe way to verify the result is absent, stop the affected action. Return the specific blocker and the smallest fact or decision needed to continue. Do not report an unrun check as passed. ## Output Provide an executive deck with decision ask. Include the decisive evidence and actual verification result. Name any artifact location and unresolved issue that affects its use. <!-- MIT License Copyright (c) 2026 Thrive Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. -->