Simple 6-Stage Horizontal Timeline Template for PowerPoint & Google Slides

Simple Six-Step Project Timeline Presentation Template

A dark-background, 6 Stage Timeline running from 2022 through 2027. Each milestone sits inside a circular marker with a color and icon – not for decoration, but because when you’re presenting live and someone in the back row needs to track where you are, visual differentiation does real work (and yes, it makes a real difference, even in rooms you think are too small to need it).

The layout flows left to right, the way people actually read a sequence. Arrow indicators between stages keep the eye moving without you having to explain the direction. It’s a small thing. It matters.

What you can do with the 6 Stage Timeline

Six stages means you can map an entire multi-year plan – annual goals, development phases, a product roadmap from concept to launch – and still give each moment room to breathe. That’s not nothing. Starting from scratch at midnight with a blank slide, you’d be lucky to get three stages spaced evenly before something starts looking off.

Every element of the 6 Stage Timeline is editable: icons, colors, fonts, text blocks. If your brand uses a specific palette or your organization has a template standard, you’re not fighting the design to get there – you’re adjusting it. The structure holds while the surface changes, which is how a good template is supposed to work.

It runs on both PowerPoint and Google Slides, so whether you’re building it on your laptop or sharing it across a team for collaborative edits, the formatting doesn’t quietly break between handoffs (which, if you’ve ever emailed a deck and opened the reply to find the fonts replaced with something unrecognizable, you know is not a small thing).

Who reaches for this 6 Stage Timeline

Project managers presenting quarterly roadmaps. Consultants walking a client through a phased engagement. Educators mapping out a curriculum arc. Startup founders showing investors where the company is and where it’s headed. Anyone who has ever had to explain “here are the six things that happen, in order” to a room of people and wanted the slide to do some of the work.

If your timeline has fewer stages, there are simpler options. If it has more, you’ll want something built for that. But if six stages is your number – six milestones, six years, six phases of anything — this is the version you don’t have to fix before you use it.