You recently spent two months developing a 40 slide PowerPoint presentation deck. You spent hundreds of hours developing it and we're really proud of the final product. When you presented it at the Corporate office you received numerous kudos for the quality construction and how well your PowerPoint deck was received by the audience.

Following the conference, you have received several emails from attendees at the conference asking you to forward them a copy of your presentation, as it contained great data and information. You even received such a request from the Regional Manager, your boss's boss.

Your concern is this: you invested a LOT of time in developing the presentation, and you plan on using the design of the initial presentation in future presentations you will be asked to deliver. However, if you sent others your PowerPoint deck they can easily adapt the format for their own presentations, diluting the value of the work as a representation of your personal brand.

What do you do? Do you politely decline to send others the deck? Declining to send them a copy of your presentation could be interpreted as rude and selfish.

Do you send them the deck and take their interest as a compliment, knowing they may very well use your presentation style in the future as their own? And who really owns the presentation? Does the PowerPoint deck belong to you, or is it intellectual property owned by the Company since you developed it on company time?