The One Thing to Change Before Tomorrow's Meeting 

You present tomorrow.

The dashboard is built, the meeting is booked — and you already suspect the room will nod politely and decide nothing.

This checklist is for tonight. Eight checks, run top to bottom.

**The first box you can't tick is your one thing.** Change that. Stop there. A dashboard rebuilt at midnight helps nobody — one deliberate fix does.

The checks cover the decision the meeting actually exists to make, the need behind the ask, the three-second glance test, and the room your numbers walk into after you've left — because your audience has an audience, and you won't be there when they present it.

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Every check on this page came out of one conversation — episode 2 of Make Change Happen Live, with data storytelling educator Bill Shander. The checklist gives you the moves. The episode shows the thinking behind them: why "sales" can mean profits over ten years, what a dashboard owes the rooms it travels to without you, and where the ten-minute story beats the hour-long walkthrough.

Missed it live? Watch the full replay on YouTube .