Two slide-deck survivors who decided someone had to fix this.
Before Nuts & Bolts, we both lived in deck-heavy worlds, and from two different sides of the table, we saw the same thing: smart, capable people burning through nights and weekends on slides that didn't need to take that long. The training that was supposed to fix this either taught the wrong things, or taught them in a way that wouldn't survive contact with a real deadline.
So we started Nuts & Bolts in 2014. Not a list of 1,001 features. Not a personality-driven YouTube channel. An actual game plan, the shortcuts, workflows, and design principles that let working professionals ship great decks and still have a life.
Twelve years and a community of over 260,000 professionals later, across our trainings, courses, YouTube channel, and online learning platforms, we're still doing it, and the work has only gotten more relevant. PowerPoint keeps evolving (new AI features, new design expectations, new tools competing for attention), the stakes for a great deck keep rising, and most teams are still figuring it out on the fly. We now run three things side by side: corporate training for teams that have to produce decks at scale, presentation design for organizations that need custom decks and templates, and a library of tutorials and online courses for individuals who want to sharpen their own skills.
Taylor is the nut, the piece that spins, adjusts, finds its fit. Camille is the bolt, the grounded piece that holds it all in place. Together, the joint that holds.
Camille Holden
Co-founder · Microsoft PowerPoint MVP · The Design Person
Camille is the design person. She shapes the look, the message, and the why behind every deck. If a slide needs a redesign, a custom template, or a reason to exist, that's where she leans.
Before Nuts & Bolts, she came up through PR and event planning. She became the unofficial PowerPoint person at every place she worked, the one handed every important pitch deck and sponsor proposal, and the one staying up until 2 AM refining type, color, and alignment. That's where the obsession started.
Today she's a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP. Like Taylor, she trains and builds decks across most of our engagements, but her lane is presentation design, the custom presentations, branded templates, and redesigns companies come to us for when their off-the-shelf templates stop holding up. Most inbound design clients work directly with her.
Taylor Croonquist
Co-founder · Chief Training Officer · The Productivity Guru
Taylor is the productivity guru. If there's a faster way to do something in PowerPoint or Excel, he's already found it and built a workflow around it.
He came up through finance, which is where the shortcut obsession started, when you're building decks under deadline pressure, every keystroke matters. For the past twelve years he's been the lead instructor on programs at some of the country's largest investment banks and consulting firms, along with growing teams in tech, healthcare, and professional services.
Like Camille, he trains and builds decks across most of our engagements, but his lane is the nitty-gritty: shortcuts, Excel, and slide build-outs where speed and precision matter. He also speaks regularly at presentation industry conferences.
Here's what you're actually getting.
If you're evaluating us for a corporate training engagement or a design project, or you're an internal champion building the case to your boss, this is the part you came for.
Unmatched PowerPoint Expertise
Over 260,000 professionals have learned from us through our courses, tutorials, and trainings. When you hire us directly, every engagement is led personally. No subcontracted trainers, no junior designers handling the work after the kickoff call.
Depth
A Microsoft PowerPoint MVP and a senior PowerPoint & Excel instructor. Both training, both designing, both in the file on most engagements. The finished product has both of our fingerprints on it.
Range
Engagements across finance, consulting, healthcare, technology, telecoms, recruitment, and retail. We understand what each of these industries needs, where their teams get stuck, and how to tailor every engagement to fit.
Thank you for the 2-parter workshop that you custom-designed for our needs. It is clear that you put a lot of effort into the curriculum. You have taught the team so much.Sherman Ho · President & Co-Founder, Wesley Enterprise, Inc.
Now that you know us, let's talk about your team.
Whether you're scoping a corporate training program, a custom deck, or a full template build, we'd rather have a 20-minute conversation than send you a PDF. No pitch deck, no pressure, just a chat about what your team actually needs.