ogcommunicationdesign

Visually communicating information for presentations and documents

I can help you visually communicate data, concepts and ideas using information design to quickly and clearly get across your story and your key messages – I can write, develop, or polish your presentation so it best represent you, your brand and your thinking.
Customer Testimonials

My clients see the difference

Over the years that I've worked with Neil, I want you to know that it's been both a professional privilege and a personal pleasure. When it comes to the design of visuals or of business presentations, Neil defines the word 'Quality'.

Gene Zelazny, Author of 'Say It with Charts' ex-Director of Visual Communications, McKinsey & Company, USA

Neil works magic with presentations. If you have to present ideas, and you want your presentation to be compelling, talk to Neil. He knows what it takes to pull together a presentation fast and efficiently.

Gerard Castles Communications Consultant, Australia

Being able to get high-quality production done overnight - with added value - is a fantastic resource for me and my team.

Associate Partner International Management Consultancy, Denmark

Neil fully understands the brand guidelines and the business strategy and objectives, the presentations are taking less time to turn around and they look far more professional and aligned across the group. Neil is really cost effective and his skill base is far better than anyone I have ever used before.

Head of Brand BT Financial Group, Australia

Neil is fast and reliable. He creates amazing presentations, often overnight. He has also done some terrific training with our consultants and they keep asking for more.

Angela Scaffidi Managing Partner, SenateSHJ, Australia

Neil is quick, smart and understands my PowerPoint design and layout needs better than I do! I can even leave simple notes on pages and he understands what I want to portray!

Partner Global Management Consultancy Firm

Simply, the go-to PowerPoint, and dataviz guru!

Business Analyst Telecommunications Company, Australia

Should be compulsory for all new staff so we have a consistent language. Got my thinking clear on how to produce the end product which captures what I need to say and what senior management needs to see.

Workshop participant Retail Bank, Australia

Neil is a rock-solid comms & visual specialist who has time after time shown deep understanding of my communication needs and proactively acted on them. He is extremely reliable, has a great attention to detail and is one of the most service-minded people I have had the pleasure of working with.

Youri Doeleman Manager, Digital Business Technology Office of International Consultancy Firm
Customer Testimonials

My clients see the difference

Over the years that I've worked with Neil, I want you to know that it's been both a professional privilege and a personal pleasure. When it comes to the design of visuals or of business presentations, Neil defines the word 'Quality'.

Gene Zelazny

Author of 'Say It with Charts', ex-Director of Visual Communications, McKinsey & Company, USA

Neil works magic with presentations. If you have to present ideas, and you want your presentation to be compelling, talk to Neil. He knows what it takes to pull together a presentation fast and efficiently.

Gerard Castles

Communications Consultant, Australia

Being able to get high-quality production done overnight - with added value - is a fantastic resource for me and my team.

Associate Partner

International Management Consultancy, Denmark

Neil fully understands the brand guidelines and the business strategy and objectives, the presentations are taking less time to turn around and they look far more professional and aligned across the group. Neil is really cost effective and his skill base is far better than anyone I have ever used before.

Head of Brand

BT Financial Group, Australia

Neil is fast and reliable. He creates amazing presentations, often overnight. He has also done some terrific training with our consultants and they keep asking for more.

Angela Scaffidi

Managing Partner, SenateSHJ, Australia

Neil is quick, smart and understands my PowerPoint design and layout needs better than I do! I can even leave simple notes on pages and he understands what I want to portray!

Partner

Global Management Consultancy Firm

Simply, the go-to PowerPoint, and dataviz guru!

Business Analyst

Telecommunications Company, Australia

Should be compulsory for all new staff so we have a consistent language. Got my thinking clear on how to produce the end product which captures what I need to say and what senior management needs to see.

Workshop participant

Retail Bank, Australia

Neil is a rock-solid comms & visual specialist who has time after time shown deep understanding of my communication needs and proactively acted on them. He is extremely reliable, has a great attention to detail and is one of the most service-minded people I have had the pleasure of working with.

Youri Doeleman

Manager, Digital Business Technology Office of International Consultancy Firm

NEIL YOUNG

Neil began work as a cartoonist in London. Then worked for the international management consultancy McKinsey and Company in the area of graphics and visual communications: firstly in London; then in Scandinavia; and finally in Sydney where, as visual communications specialist he visually edited client documents and presentations and ran training workshops for staff and senior clients.

During his 16 years with McKinsey Neil played a large part in shaping McKinsey’s worldwide visual communication goals. He was a core member of various committees and teams which, amongst other things, re-engineered McKinsey’s written and visual communications, updated styles and standards to better take advantage of technology and co-developed template and library software for the production of charts and diagrams, including ‘The EDGE’ (Exhibit Drawing and Graphing Environment).

After leaving McKinsey Neil set up a number of graphic and design companies, including (since 2006) og communication design – to work with clients to add value to their visual communications, train their staff in effective message-driven presentations and define their style with a consistent visual language.

Neil is also a professional actor, award winning short-film maker, published author and has been a comedy scriptwriter for SBS television. He lives in Mullumbimby in Northern NSW, Australia.