Connection beats performance (even through a screen).
Two 4-hour live sessions, plus a 1-hour group coaching call
Presenting online isn't presenting on a smaller stage. It's a different room, one where your audience's eyes and ears say you're there, but the rest of their body says no one is. That gap is why online presentations so often feel flat.
The idea behind it
Most people treat a presentation as something to get through. I treat it as part of the job, and a craft worth getting good at. If you lead, you present constantly: in meetings, in updates, in decisions, in the small rooms that move things forward. That's not a side skill. It's the work.
So we go deeper than tips and tricks. We look at what your audience's brain really needs, why a screen quietly breaks connection, how attention works and how to hold it. Then two things make it land: clarity — knowing exactly what you want people to take away — and visual thinking — making the complex simple enough to see. It's how I work, on paper and on screen, and it's what I'll teach you to do.
You won't leave with a confidence high that fades by Monday. You'll leave with a way of working, and a habit that makes every next presentation better than the last.
Who it's for
Leaders, founders, and executives who present online often and want to do it with more clarity and less performance.
Loud or quiet, analytical or expressive, there's no single right way to present. We'll work with the style that's truly yours.
What you'll walk away with
- Clarity on what you're actually presenting: your core message and the effect you want it to have
- A way to hold attention online, grounded in how the brain really works
- Techniques that build genuine connection through a camera
- A simple story structure that works when you can't read the room
- Tools that run on what you already own: a laptop, a camera, paper, a pen. No studio required.
- A clear-eyed take on AI — how it raises the bar for being real, and how to use it to prepare better without faking it
- A reflection habit — Capture & Apply — that turns every future presentation into practice
What this is not
A quick clarification, because it shapes everything: this is not stagecraft. Not performing, not projecting, not putting on a show (if anything, the opposite). It's not a gear course either: no lights, no studio, no fancy setup. And it's not TED-talk polish or media training. It's about being clear and staying connected in the rooms you're already in, most of them everyday ones.
Presenting in the age of AI
AI is quietly raising the bar. When anyone can generate a slick deck in seconds, people get faster at spotting the generic and the hollow, so the human things (clarity, presence, a point that's actually yours) count for more, not less.
We'll look at it from both sides: how AI changes what your audience expects, and how to use it well in your own preparation. The rule of thumb: don't use AI to do it for you, use it to get better yourself.
How it works
Three live touchpoints, with individual work before, between, and after the training.
1 · Before we meet — about 2 hours, on your own
Your printed workbook arrives in the post, ready to write in. Then, on your own: a short guided questionnaire, a real presentation of your own to work on, and time to get comfortable on the shared board we'll use throughout.
2 · Session 1: Understand & Prepare — 4 hours, live
Why online is different. How to sharpen your core message and shape a story that lands. You'll leave with something real in your hands.
Mandatory homework: record a short version of your presentation.
3 · Session 2: Deliver & Connect — 4 hours, live
Attention, connection, and the techniques that carry them. Live coaching in front of the group and break-out presentations.
Mandatory homework: refine and re-record your presentation.
4 · Personal written feedback — after the training
I review each participant's recording and send you written feedback on your delivery. Specific, usable, honest, human.
5 · Group Coaching — 1 hour, live, about four weeks later
You bring the questions. A coaching session for the whole cohort to close the loop on what you've applied.
6 · Your certificate
At the end, you earn a certificate, through a conversation, not a quiz. A specialised AI explores how you'd apply what you've learned, because the point was never to memorise it. It was to use it.
7 · It keeps going
The course continues to live in the online community, with direct access to me and to the other participants.
The essentials
Format: 2 × 4 hours live online, plus 1 hour live group coaching
Preparation: about 2 hours upfront
Delivered through: the Agile Academy Campus, Miro and Zoom
Language: English
Group size: limited to 12, boutique by design, so everyone presents and everyone gets feedback
Materials: a printed workbook, shipped to your door, yours to keep and write in
Certificate: earned through a conversation with a specialised AI, not a multiple-choice quiz
Investment: (€1,790 per person) launch price €1,490 for the first cohort
Dates: Autumn 2026 (to be confirmed)
Why only 12?
Because real feedback can't be scaled. Twelve is the largest group where every person is heard. It allows me to respond to every recording personally.
The cap isn't a limit. It's the promise.
Holger Nils Pohl
Online Training How To Present Like a Pro Online
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Holger Nils Pohl
Holger Nils Pohl helps leaders create clarity. A visual strategist, trainer, and author with seventeen years of experience, he has worked with organisations from Apple and Bosch to Roche and Henkel, and many others, small and large.
In 2009 he made himself a rubber stamp with a line he still stands by: my passion is to help you see and feel what words cannot express. Seventeen years on, it's still the thread through everything he does: the visual thinking, the clarity, the conviction that the best communication reaches people somewhere words alone can't.
He believes presentations should create connection, not perform, and that the fastest way to get better is to build a habit of reflection. He lives just outside Cologne with his family, half a zoo, and more creative projects than normal people could comprehend.
