Crawl Walk Run Fly Template for PowerPoint & Google Slides

Crawl Walk Run Fly Development Stages Presentation Template

The Crawl Walk Run Fly template itself is clean – soft green-yellow palette, circular backdrops behind each character, headline plus supporting paragraph per stage, and it moves left to right the way a story should. What I like is that it doesn’t try to do too much. Each circle holds its weight, gives you room to describe where you are now, what’s constraining you, and where you’re heading next. That’s the whole framework. No six-step process, no nested swimlane chart nobody reads after Tuesday.

It works beautifully for product rollouts, technology adoption curves, employee onboarding journeys, consulting maturity models – the kind of work where you need leadership to feel the progression, not just understand it intellectually. There’s a difference, though. A table communicates sequence. An illustrated character mid-stride communicates momentum. That’s the bet this Crawl Walk Run Fly template is making, and we are confident it pays out.

It’s fully editable, which matters more than it sounds. Swap the illustrations, recolor to your brand system, rewrite every text field – the layout holds because the underlying structure is solid. I’ve dropped this into PowerPoint decks for executive briefings and rebuilt it in Google Slides for remote workshops without breaking a sweat. Consistent formatting across both, which is rarer than it should be.

The illustrated characters are doing real work here, not just decoration. They give the audience a relatable, almost reflexive shorthand for each capability level – crawling feels constrained, flying feels liberated, and the two in the middle feel exactly like the middle should. If you’re presenting phased transformation to people who’ve lived through phased transformation, that resonance is free credibility. I’ll take it.

Who is this Crawl Walk Run Fly for?

Consultants, project managers, educators, trainers, HR teams, product leads, and organizations presenting phased development, maturity models, or transformation journeys.