Use stories and visuals to make great presentations.

CAST has been a quiet success, until now. It was developed over a twelve year period as a presentation method to help enterprise architects, and was used by Microsoft enterprise architecture teams and beyond to major organizations around the world. Thanks to this unique book from an expert author team that includes two Microsoft presentation experts, you can learn how to use this amazing process to create and make high–impact presentations in your own organization.

The book helps you build complete visual stories, step by step, by using the CAST method to first create a Story Map and then a compelling presentation. Sample Story Maps, templates, practical success stories, and more are included. You will learn how to create presentations that influence your peers and effect change.

• Explains the secrets of making presentations and effecting change using CAST to create Story Maps and from there, high–impact and visual presentations that tell a story
• Covers how to apply a range of techniques and what the results look like, using screenshots of presentations, one page hand outs, and basic delivery with whiteboards
• Coauthored by Microsoft experts and a visual design guru who have years of experience training professionals in these methods
• Includes sample Story Maps, templates, practical success stories, and more

If you want to change your company, learn how to sell your ideas. There are stories that move mountains.