The creative director at betterppt.com, Rick Altman has been hired by hundreds of companies, listened to by tens of thousands of professionals, and read by millions of people, all of whom seek better results with their presentation content and delivery. He covers the whole of the presentation community, from message crafting, through slide design, and software technique, and his common-sense approach and pragmatic advice have resonated throughout the industry.
Altman came to presentations through graphic design, having worked with the Corel products throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and having hosted the CorelWorld User Conference across three decades. Rick claims to have invented desktop publishing back in 1982 and can show a galley sheet of type that was produced from connecting his Osborne 1 computer to a typesetter across town with a 300-baud modem.
All of that came about because he was not a good enough tennis player to make it onto the professional tour. All the rest of this has been his Plan B...
