Levelling Up at Work

You've asked us how to level up at work: writing better, presenting sharper. So we teamed up with two Aussies who’ve cracked the code.

June 10, 2025

Good morning AusCorp. Hoping you had a cracking Queen’s King’s Birthday long weekend. Whether you used it to switch off, catch up, or finally get those expense receipts in before Finance chased you again.

We’ll keep this quick. Because if you’re anything like the thousands of mid-career professionals we often hear from (or read about in r/auscorp), you’ve probably had this moment:

You’re good at your job.

But your emails, your updates, your slides were never skills you improved or actively thought about, even though it’s what you do for most the day. And you realise: “No one ever taught me how to actually master these at work.”

That’s why we’ve partnered with Slide Science and Power Writing to give you a leg up and help you level up to communicate like an elite professional!

Both courses are no-fluff, high-impact courses used by operators, consultants, bankers and strategists at firms like Blackstone, Canva, Clayton Utz, Goldies, and even from MBBs like McKinsey and BCG.

And look… I get it… I’m sure many of you think these courses are made for early career/grad-level professionals. But the reality is that most people taking the course are 5–15 years into their careers, looking to sharpen the edge that actually gets them promoted.

p.s. the best part? You should be able to expense these courses to that L&D allowance you never touch — and for some of you, it resets on June 30. Just saying.

💡Slide Science

Persuasive communication with PowerPoint is a cheat code in the corporate world

Throughout their careers, consultants at top firms like McKinsey learn a powerful skillset:

Strategic thinking. Structured problem solving. Slide communication.

These are the same skills that enable them to move into corporate roles, rise fast, and land executive positions.

But here’s the catch... these skills are never taught outside consulting firms.

I spent almost 10 years in consulting, corporate strategy and tech strategy. In that time, I realised that any corporate professional can learn the same skills.

And that’s why I built Slide Science.

Our training courses are specifically designed for corporate professionals to learn the same skills that are taught at top consulting firms. Everything is broken down into simple frameworks and processes that you can apply at work immediately.

If you want to learn how to think and communicate like a senior leader (without giving up years of your life and working 70 hour weeks in consulting), then check out:

  • The Slide Science System​​: A comprehensive slide building system that teaches you a step-by-step methodology for creating high-quality corporate presentations for senior executives. It includes a video course, slide building manual, slide templates, and cheat sheets.​

  • The Strategy System:​ A 7-step “hypothesis-based problem solving” methodology used by top consulting firms like McKinsey. You'll learn processes and frameworks to break down and solve any business problem, no matter how complex or ambiguous.

  • The Business Strategy Template Pack:​ A regularly updated repository of 176+ client-ready slides that you can simply drop into your next project. It includes 9+ business strategy topics, 24+ frameworks / one-pagers, 527+ PowerPoint shapes, and 971+ icons.​​

For a limited time, you can get 33% off everything by using the code TAC33 at checkout.

📝Power Writing

How you write has a huge effect on your job... yet no one teaches us how to write for work.

In fact, the last time you probably ever received any formal training on how to write was in high school English class — big words, long sentences, dense paragraphs with no formatting, conclusions at the end. But work is nothing like Year 12 English.

That's especially true in this new modern world where:

  • Attention spans are shrinking.

  • People's habits are shifting.

Power Writing was created by Kal — a former Macquarie Capital banker who started and sold a couple of businesses, including Letter of Intent (yep, that finance newsletter), and now heads up a growth capital firm, Mighty Partners.

In other words, he’s not some academic. He’s seen firsthand the huge impact your writing can have on your professional performance. It sounds obvious, yet no one ever teaches you to write for work.

Use the code TAC33 to get 33% off + you can typically expense the course to that L&D allowance you never touch.

Level up and write like an elite professional. Learn more here.

That’s all, folks! Use that L&D budget before Finance claws it back at the EOFY, and either way, we hope they’re useful resources for you to check out.

Enjoy the short week… we all need more of those!