Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts leads business writing and presentation workshops through the country and is the author of 25 books, including Storytelling in Presentations For Dummies, Technical Writing For Dummies and 135 Tips for Writing Successful Business Documents. She has been featured in The New York Times and in magazines such as Profit, Home Business, and CIO.

Articles & Books From Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts

Training & Development with AI For Dummies
An indispensable guide to learning how the dynamic partnership of human intelligence and AI can transform your T&D from good to brilliant Training & Development with AI For Dummies helps you and your organization implement AI to give your training an effectiveness boost. You'll learn to use AI to help create personalized training, training videos, stories that resonate, and beyond.
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Cheat Sheet / Updated 01-22-2026
This quick Cheat Sheet features a list of AI tools worth exploring and a T&D Kick-Start Brief to help you understand your learners so you design sessions that truly engage them. AI tools worth checking out Whether you’re building onboarding programs or tracking a learner’s progress, AI tools are quickly becoming an essential partner in training and development (T&D).
Cheat Sheet / Updated 06-09-2025
Although artificial intelligence (AI) has been around in some form since the 1950s, it was the first public release of ChatGPT and OpenAI’s foundational large language models (LLMs) like GPT 3.5 that made generative AI (GenAI) applications available to people who aren’t data scientists and computer geniuses.OpenAI’s models and models from companies such as Google, Facebook, Anthropic, and others ignited the world’s demand for increasingly sophisticated GenAI models and tools, and the market was quick to deliver.
Artificial Intelligence All-in-One For Dummies
A comprehensive roadmap to using AI in your career and in your life Artificial intelligence is everywhere. Major software organizations like Microsoft, Google, and Apple have built AI directly into products and invited the world to become part of the AI revolution. And it's impossible to use these tools to their fullest potential without understanding the basics of what AI is and what it can do.
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Grant Writing with AI For Dummies
Supercharge your next grant proposal with the power of AI A stand-out grant proposals can be the difference between your organization thriving, surviving, or folding. So don't miss the opportunity presented by artificial intelligence (AI) to take your grant proposals to the next level! In Grant Writing with AI For Dummies, business writer extraordinaire Sheryl Lindsell-Roberts delivers an exciting new guide to supercharging your next grant proposal with AI.
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Business Writing with AI For Dummies
Learn how to generate high quality, business documents with AI This essential guide helps business writers and other professionals learn the strengths and weaknesses of AI as a writing assistant. You'll discover how AI can help you by chopping through writer's block, drafting an outline, generating headlines and titles, producing meaningful text, maintaining consistency, proofreading and editing, and optimizing content for search engines.
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Cheat Sheet / Updated 06-17-2024
Unleash the power of AI to transform your writing process and revolutionize your creativity. This Cheat Sheet introduces you to some common AI lingo and popular AI tools to get you started, and helps you to identify your target audience, generate a writing brief, and polish and proofread your content.Introducing a buffet of AI lingoIf you’re not familiar with AI, here are some terms to get you started: AI ethics: Adopting and implementing systems that support a safe, secure, unbiased, and environmentally friendly approach to AI.
Article / Updated 10-30-2023
It’s in our nature to tell stories and share our life’s events. And you probably use hyperboles (exaggerations) to make your stories more engaging — peppering them with statements such as, “I nearly died of embarrassment” or “My feet were killing me.” While this casual sharing is different from being in front of an audience, you do know how to tell stories.
Article / Updated 10-19-2023
In the context of creating presentations, I compare understanding your audience to many of the courtroom scenes you’ve viewed in the movies and on TV. During the trial, attorneys pose leading questions they know will impact the jurors as they intend. They can do that because they’ve had the opportunity to get to know them beforehand through questioning.
Article / Updated 10-18-2023
Whether presentations are live, virtual, or hybrid, they’re one of most effective business communication tools of our time. Strong presentation skills are a hallmark of strong leaders and people who aspire to become leaders. When you want to be seen as a subject matter expert (SME) or knowledge source, a presentation can showcase your skills and potential.