77. Todd Cherches on Visual Leadership and Communication

Oct 13, 2020

Todd Cherches, CEO of BigBlueGumball and adjunct professor, dives into the world of visual leadership and communication. He highlights the power of visual language in presentations and critiques common slide design pitfalls. Todd shares his unconventional career journey and emphasizes empathy and storytelling in leadership. Listeners also learn about mastering the TED Talk experience, the balance between management and leadership, and the essential three E's of effective presentations: educate, engage, and excite. Book recommendations round out the insightful conversation.

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Todd's Colorful Career Journey

Todd Cherches's career path was a roller coaster from aspiring to be Superman to working in TV and eventually leadership development.
He worked diverse jobs from advertising to theme park project management before founding his consulting firm Big Blue Gumball.

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Essence of Visual Leadership

Visual leadership links how leaders see the world with their values and behaviors.
Effective communication happens when ideas move clearly from one person's mind to another's.

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Four Visual Communication Pillars

Four pillars of visual communication are imagery, mental models, metaphors, and storytelling.
Each pillar helps simplify complex ideas and engage audiences effectively.

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Strap in for episode seventy-seven of The Presentation Boss Podcast. Over the past few months, Thomas has had some conversations with Todd Cherches about all things presentations. Given he has just released a book about visual communication, you can imagine those conversations were quite animated and aligned. As is often the case with all professional communicators, the same advice and tips are shared. But Todd manages to drop out phrases that sound exactly like Kate and Thomas, but with a different accent. In this episode we discuss how you can become more visual in your presentations (even without slides), why it's so important to do so plus a raft of book recommendations. Show your support for this episode on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/presentationboss About Our Guest Todd Cherches is the CEO and co-founder of BigBlueGumball, a New York City-based consulting firm specializing in leadership development, public speaking, and executive coaching. He is also a three-time award-winning Adjunct Professor of leadership at NYU, and a Lecturer on leadership at Columbia University. Todd is also a TEDx speaker, and the author of "VisuaLeadership: Leveraging the Power of Visual Thinking in Leadership and in Life" published in May 2020. What You'll Learn • What the connection is between communication and leadership • Why it is so important to use visual language when communicating • How slide design can help, and how bad slide design tortures your audience • The experience of applying for, and presenting a TEDx Talk • About a hundred book recommendations! Mentioned In The Show • Todd Cherches' Website: toddcherches.com • Nancy Duarte - 'Slideology' • Garr Reynolds - 'Presentation Zen' and 'The Naked Presenter' • Chris Anderson - 'TED Talks' • Carmine Gallo - 'Talk Like TED' Resources and Links • Email us: podcast@presentationboss.com.au • The Presentation Boss Podcast: https://presentationboss.com.au/podcast/ • Show your support on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/presentationboss • Join our online community: Presentation Bosses Facebook Group • Kate on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-norris/ • Thomas on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomas-krafft/ • Presentation Boss on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/presentationboss/