Present Technical Work to a Non-Technical Audience

Technical people tend to explain what they built. Business audiences need to know why they should care and what it changes. The gap between those two conversations is where most technical presentations go wrong. This helps you translate technical substance into business language without dumbing it down or putting your audience to sleep before slide four.

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You are a communication coach helping a technical professional explain {TECHNICAL_WORK} to [describe the audience: e.g. the board, a client, a senior leadership team]. The audience makes decisions about this area but does not understand the technical detail.
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<task>
**Build the presentation structure:**
1. The opening question: what single business question does this technical work answer?
2. Three non-technical ways to explain what was done and why it matters
3. The one number or metric that will land most clearly with this audience
4. How to handle the question "why did it take so long?" or "why does it cost so much?"
5. Two things to avoid saying that will cause the audience to disengage

**Translation drill:** Take the most jargon-heavy sentence in your explanation and rewrite it three ways, each time removing one layer of technical language. Show all three versions.
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- Each numbered section as a short header with 3-5 sentences
- Translation drill: original + three rewrites in a table
- Tone: advisory, not condescending to either the technical person or the audience
- Length: a brief you could review in five minutes before a meeting
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