Red Thread Studios
My work

The brief I got, and what I made of it.

Client names, numbers, and identifying detail are removed or invented. What stays is the part that matters: the problem in the room, and the thinking that solved it.

Executive presentations — strategy updates, business reviews, leadership narratives. Built to be presented from, not read aloud.

What I offer

From a single slide to your board's next message.

Presentation design and strategy for marketing & sales, legal, and executive teams — one of the few practices built specifically for board-level legal and regulatory content.

Tactical
  • Single Slide Design Turn one dense, text-heavy slide into something a board can read in seconds.

  • Deck Formatting & Cleanup Apply a consistent visual system to a deck someone else has already drafted.

  • Data & Timeline Visualization Turn a regulation, dataset, or legal timeline into a single, clear visual.

Structural
  • Full Deck Design Bring the raw material — a brief, notes, a messy draft — and receive a complete, board-ready deck: narrative and visuals both built from scratch.

  • Recurring Reporting Templates A reusable format your team can fill in every cycle without starting from zero, built for monthly or quarterly updates.

  • Content Architecture Before anything gets designed, deciding what belongs on the page and what gets cut.

Executive
  • Message Development Translating text-dense legal, regulatory, or technical material into a captivating narrative.

  • Presentation Strategy Consulting Shaping what the argument to the board actually is, not just how it looks.

  • Ongoing Communication Partner Retainer-based support for a legal or compliance team's recurring board cadence.

  • Executive Communication Coaching Helping a leader frame an initiative for the board, independent of any single deck.

If you need presentation design for legal teams, board presentation design, or an executive presentation strategist who understands regulated industries, this is where I specialise.

AI governance, before it becomes a liability.

A mid-cap FMCG group's marketing team was already using AI informally — content generation, personalization, market-research synthesis — and legal had flagged real exposure under the EU AI Act. The brief: get the Executive Committee to approve a lightweight AI governance framework before marketing scaled further. I skipped the AI Act primer entirely and built a 10-slide deck that went straight to where their current use cases actually sat on the Act's risk tiers — then closed with four guardrails and one clear ask. Approved in the same meeting.

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Where their use cases sat on the risk tiers.
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The four guardrails.
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One clear ask.
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Presentations built

Other decks I've built for boards and leadership teams.

  • Creation of AI Governance Committee
  • EU AI Act and Its Influence on Business Worldwide
  • Russian Sanctions 2022–2026 and Risks to Business
  • Monthly Legal Meeting Updates to Executive Committee
  • Monthly Project Status Template for Cross-Functional Teams
  • Go-to-Market Launch Deck for a Premium Consumer Brand
  • Brand Repositioning Presentation for a Consumer Goods Company
  • Business Case for a New Product Platform — Market Sizing & ROI
How I work

A process built to keep revisions to a minimum.

01

Brief

Send your raw content — a messy deck, notes, a dense document — plus a short brief: who's the audience, what's the key message, how many slides. A corporate template is welcome but not required — I can also build a lightweight visual system from scratch, without the cost of a full 100-slide brand system nobody ends up using.

02

Clarifying Call

A short exchange to resolve the handful of questions that come up after reviewing the brief.

03

Structure Sign-Off

On request, I share the content outline — hierarchy, what's on each slide — for your approval before moving into design, so a message change never means redoing a finished design.

04

Design

Full visual build, in your corporate template or a purpose-built one.

05

Delivery

An editable PPT file, plus any icon or image assets separately, so you can maintain it yourself going forward.

All material is treated as confidential by default. NDA available on request.