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Taught by Michael Zumchak

After escaping Wall Street, Michael went on to design one of New York's most coveted Excel training programs.

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Our industry recognised clients have sent over 50,000 students to our workshops.
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Part 1: The Core
4 Hrs Total Class Time
$250USD

The Life or Death Class

Conquer your fear of formulas, VLOOKUPS, Pivot Tables, Shortcuts, and stop making a MESS.

Total Class Time: 4 Hours
Cost: $250USD
What you will learn?
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Learn Excel Mike's 6 rules of spreadsheet design

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Why everyone makes a MESS in Excel and how avoid it

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Learn shortcuts to triple your speed

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Conquer your fear of formulas!

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Sort, Manage, and Filter large datasets without messing it up

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Laugh at how easy it is to summarize your data with PIVOT TABLES

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Build a template that you can re-use next week when you get new data

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Apr 26&28 (3-5pm EST)
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Part 2: Advanced
4 Hrs Total Class Time
$250USD

The Next Level of Excel

Beautiful Formulas, Advanced Logic, INDEX/MATCH, XLOOKUP, and Dynamic Tables

Total Class Time: 4 Hours
Cost: $250USD
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Dynamic tables magically expand when you add more data

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Beautiful structured formulas make formulas even easier to read

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The infamous INDEX/MATCH and XLOOKUP made easy

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Creative problem solving with advanced logic (IFS/AND/OR)

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Calculating tricky subtotals with the ANYTHINGIFS functions

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Dealing with those annoying "alternative" calendars

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How to keep large spreadsheets from getting slow

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May 3&5 (3-5pm EST)
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Part 3: Power Query
4 Hrs Total Class Time
$250USD

Take Excel To The Moon

Imagine just pressing "refresh" and watching Power Query automatically clean and fix a messy dataset that used to take all day! Power Query will change your entire workflow.

Total Class Time: 4 Hours
Cost: $250USD
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Connecting to multiple data sources

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Say goodbye to broken links forever

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Maintaining a single source of truth for your team’s data

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Using Power Query to pre-clean and filter a messy dataset

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Using Power Query to automate complex data transformations

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Automatically combining data sets from several files into one table!

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How to ensure your Queries will work when you refresh your data

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Meet Your Instructor

After escaping Wall Street, Michael went on to design one of New York's most coveted Excel training programs. Michael has trained over 50,000 students for clients including JP Morgan, Cole Haan, Kate Spade, Condé Nast, Reddit, Spotify, and SoulCycle. Michael's teaching style is unconventional and extremely effective.

Michael is available for Excel disaster/repair consulting on a limited basis. Email: [email protected] to inquire.
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Lindsay Belisle

US Director of Learning & Development, Omnicom Media Group

“When is Excel Mike’s next workshop? I really need my team to sign up”
“We have an important client deliverable and I need office hours with Excel Mike, please help!”

After working with Mike Zumchak for over 10 years these are the types of unsolicited messages we often hear from employees. His office hours require no announcement; slots are filled, with a waitlist, via word of mouth. His classes sell out within hours of posting to our LMS (also waitlist). He gives people confidence and provides solutions in a software that is pivotal to our business, making him a household name within the walls of OMG. Why this demand? His office hours provide not only a evergreen solution but the mental relief from the pressure of hours of work, reduced to minutes. His classroom feedback generally is something like, ‘I learned tons and 4 hours just flew by, Mike made it fun’. For his positive emotional impact on our employees, as well as his dedication to teaching people to do excel THE RIGHT WAY, he will always be an invaluable part of our learning curriculum at Omnicom Media Group.

How many hours are you wasting at work because you still can't use a VLOOKUP or a PIVOT TABLE?

Did you know that 95% of the people in your office can’t do the simplest things in Excel, like:

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Make a grade school-level multiplication table

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Write a formula other than SUM or AVERAGE

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Use a VLOOKUP or an IF function

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Make a graph or chart for a presentation

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Sort a table of DATA without messing it up

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Actually print something without blank pages coming out!

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Yep. Most spreadsheets I see are absolute DISASTERS. Here’s why:

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They look like CRAP. There are too many lines, colors, merged cells, wrapped text, missing rows, and WAY too many tabs.

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They don’t work. It was probably made by that guy who left your team…and it’s impossible to tell why formulas are no longer working. Many cells say things like #N/A or #REF.

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They SUCK. If even it works fine now, something will go wrong soon and you’ll have to find your company “Excel expert” to fix the formulas.

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They are hard to update. Adding new rows/accounts/things feels like surgery. Maybe you are even entering the numbers manually… with your HAND!

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They require you to take several steps each week to maintain (if they even work at all). You are constantly making new band-aids to fix things.

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They are SLOW. Some take several seconds or ever minutes to open! Your computer stops responding... is it crashing? Will it come back? Hahahah...

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Worst of all, you have no idea if the numbers are right. And it’s impossible to troubleshoot.

GARBAGE SPREADSHEETS are absolutely ruining your company!

Most companies, behind their pretty façade, are operating on the brink of disaster. I see it all the time. People are emailing each other different broken versions of the same workbook, all saved and modified in different ways, all with broken links and inconsistent data. Oftentimes when something changes, there are 10-20 other workbooks at the company that are no longer “correct”. Someone then has to open each workbook to fix them.

Yes, there was that one girl who linked several workbooks to each other with VLOOKUPS. But of course she has left the company and we’re not sure where those files are now. Also, why are there so many formulas that say #N/A? And what about this random hidden section? Where did these numbers come from? Were they typed? Are they correct?

One time a client said to me “It’s like we’re keeping track of our company on a cocktail napkin”. I didn’t disagree.
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But what about our fancy new “system”?

Oh, your office just paid $500,000 for a back-end “system” that’s supposed to solve all of these problems? Hahahahha! Let me guess: It doesn’t really do anything, because like all systems, the system SUCKS.

So you end up:

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Logging into the system

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“Pulling” the raw data into Excel

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Sorting and Filtering the SHIT out of it

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Re-grouping several categories that have the wrong labels (like when Ft. Lauderdale must grouped in with Miami).

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Re-typing things so that you don’t have 3 different spellings of the same phrase in your report, like “NYC”, “New York City” and “NY City”

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Waiting for someone in IT to fix the system so it no longer behaves this way

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Still wanting to DIE

GARBAGE SPREADSHEETS are ruining the WORLD!

Every office I have ever visited has this problem. Think about many wasted hours are spent by all of the employees at every company in the WORLD, each day, each month, and each year, all because they have a garbage workflow based on the exchange of poorly designed Excel workbooks.

How many hours have you wasted at your job? If you’re in Excel for at least 3 hours a day, I would bet that 2 of those hours are being wasted on tedious manual tasks that could have been avoided had you learned Excel properly.

Wow, that’s 20 full days of your life each year that you’ll never get back. I would much rather spend that time on the beach drinking a beer. How much more time do you want to waste? How much money and time has been wasted on our planet because of this? Billions of dollars. Millions of human work years. Gone.
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The Solution! A Simple 4 hour Live Zoom Class

The solution is NOT to simply learn the features in Excel. The key, as you probably guessed from reading above, is in learning how to DESIGN SPREADSHEETS PROPERLY.

Yes, by learning a few key principles, you can transform your spreadsheets from MESSY DISASTERS into elegant tools, dashboards, and templates that actually solve problems!

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Building proper spreadsheets requires a certain discipline that does NOT come naturally to most people

If it did, everyone would be a great spreadsheet designer. Using Excel the right way also requires you to actually learn some shortcuts so you’re not wasting time fiddling with the mouse when you could have pressed F2.

There are over 500 shortcuts in Excel. There are hundreds of functions in Excel. And just like painting a picture, there are millions of ways you can design a spreadsheet. How do you know where to start?

Lucky for you, I figured it out. I have packed all of this knowledge into a 4 hour course! I’m not kidding.

It turns out that you don’t need to learn all of the features in Excel to understand the principles of proper design. You only need to focus on the most important 5% of Excel. Shortcuts, VLOOKUPs, Pivot Tables, and a handful of key concepts. You will use these same tools 95% of the time! They call this the 80/20 but in Excel it’s more like 95/5.

Let’s face it. If it was 20 hours- it would just be TOO DAMN LONG. And you probably wouldn’t even want to do it. I also would not want to be speaking for 20 hours! I’d much rather be sitting at a blackjack table slamming an EXTRA DIRTY martini.

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In fact, my #1 rule in class is to never work. Say it to yourself:

“Never WORK”

Good, you’re already learning the first lesson in class. Why work if you can set up a template to do your work for you? I have countless clients whose lives have been transformed because I turned their job into a BUTTON.

They push the button, it opens up a template, it processes their data, it saves a new colorful sexy dashboard as a PDF file, it opens Outlook, sends it to their boss… and they can spend their extra time doing things that are actually important. Like CHILLING.  

This Class is a Legend

My core class, the “Life or Death Class”, is an adaptation of the very same course I used to teach for over a decade on Wall Street. It was such a sensation it made me famous in that world.

Sometimes I’ll be walking down Broadway and some frat-boy will run up and say “Dude, you’re Excel Mike! You changed my life when I started my analyst job at Goldman”.

I usually don’t remember what happens after that because we usually drop into a bar and starting pounding picklebacks. They remember ME though - not only because they learned more in my 1-day class than they did drinking for 4 years in college, but because my class is AWESOME and DOESN’T SUCK.

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The reason my class has been such a smashing success:

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It is short and fun

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You don’t have to take notes - I send you mine!

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It makes sense even to normal people (no need to be a computer nerd)

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The examples are EASY. It’s not about finance.

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It is tremendously useful and will change the way you work forever

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You will realize how much you’ve been doing WRONG in Excel

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Did I mention it is not boring and doesn’t suck?

You will learn more in these 4 hours than you probably learned in college. Do you remember any of it? And unlike college, you will actually USE THIS STUFF EVERY DAY.

It will change your entire workflow, get you countless hours of your life back, and quite possible transform your career. I can’t tell you how many former students have written to me telling me “I am saving hours a day”. It always makes my day.

For a limited time, I'm actually personally running these classes LIVE on ZOOM since most people are working from home these days.

My 4-hour Life-Or-Death Class is probably the most important class you’ll ever take during your adult life. Yes, I know that may sound strong, but once you automate 1/2 of your day into a button, you'll never want to go back. Never work. I hope to see you in class!

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Mike is truly a one of a kind teacher and trusted partner.
He is able to take a complex subject, break it down in a fun and engaging way and make the lessons stick for his learners. He cares deeply about his learners and creates an open door for them to ask questions. We’ve put thousands of employees through his class over the years and we expect to put thousands more. Because of his class, employees have saved countless hours in Excel and we are much more efficient in our work.

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VP of Learning & Development, Horizon Media

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The thing that I really appreciate about Mike is that he was a practitioner in Finance before he was in instructor.
And the thing that he's really good at doing is taking things that seem really complicated.. and makes them simple and easy to understand.

So now, what used to take me a half-hour in Excel only takes me a few minutes. I was so impressed with what I learned in the course, I invited Mike to my college to teach my undergraduates, which he did, and it was great. So here's the deal.

In this economy, time is the new currency. And whether you're a student or a professional, or you're thinking about improving your professional opportunities, you've got to take this course. It's the best investment you can make.​
Dawn Fotopulos

Award-winning Business Author
Founder of Hidden Profit Academy

Dawn Fotopulos

Award-winning Business Author
Founder of Hidden Profit Academy

I cannot speak highly enough of this course. The reality was an engaging and fun course that taught me not only the things I wanted to know, but things I didn’t even know I wanted to know.

Mike is an absolute delight, and a fantastic teacher who strived to ensure we fully understood the concepts and walked away with the best approaches to organizing our data. The course teaches you how to make Excel a tool that works seamlessly for you, instead of a chore or a process you stumble through, executing the same functions over again in a sea of workbooks and tabs.

I never thought I would use this word to describe an Excel course but it truly was empowering. I’m already moving around more confidently in the program and can’t wait to apply more of what I’ve learned. Reporting day just got a whole lot easier!
Kim Brazier

Associate Director,
Matterkind

Kim Brazier

Associate Director,
Matterkind

Thank you for hosting four separate two-hour Excel training sessions for me within the GALE company group. While providing continuous knowledge and entertainment, the Excel training sessions and lesson review materials motivated me to engage in-depth with your offerings for learning and implementing Excel concepts.

Your ability to teach foundational skills for organizing inputs, outputs and reports (S.R.) across comprehensible datasets is unmatched.
I appreciate your willingness to stay on Zoom for five extra minutes to review my additional questions and thought processes. We will be in touch if I ever stray from your rules by accident. Until then, please take care! Thanks again, Mike!
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GALE

Mike doesn’t teach your typical excel course- he is extremely interactive that makes learning excel easy and fun! Mike’s knowledge of excel is extensive and he teaches it in a way that is easy to learn.

I took the class to sharpen my skills that I thought were pretty advanced to begin with, and I was surprised to learn skills I’ve never even heard of!
Would definitely recommend to any team that is looking to create templates to make their excel documents less manual.
Cat Sherman

Senior Key Account Executive,
Steve Madden

Cat Sherman

Senior Key Account Executive,
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Quite frankly, what you learn in that class becomes a superpower. And I want all my friends to have access to the same superpowers. This class is fun and enlightening on all levels. Highly recommended.
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PJ Leary

Founder, PJL Media

Did you know that you should NPNIF? What’s NPNIF??? You can find out this and so much more when you take Mike’s Life or Death Excel Essentials course.

Mike’s style of teaching is fun and engaging and you will learn so much, including the shortcuts that make Excel work like magic! It’s like hiding vegetables in your smoothie!

I highly recommend this course even if you never used Excel and for the price versus the knowledge you’ll gain is a steal! Put your trust in Mike’s extensive knowledge and expertise, you will not be disappointed.
Aicha Randolf

Senior Associate,
Guidehouse

Aicha Randolf

Senior Associate,
Guidehouse

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