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Nancy Duarte

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Biography

CEO of Duarte Design since 1990, Nancy Duarte passionately pursues the presentation development and design niche. One of the largest design firms in Silicon Valley and listed as a top woman-owned business in the area, Duarte Design is one of the few agencies in the world focused solely on presentations, whether they are delivered in person, online or via mobile device. Nancy's twenty years of experience working with global companies and thought leaders has influenced the perception of some of the world's most valuable brands and many of humanity's common causes.

Books

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by Nancy Duarte
August 2008
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Ebook: $27.99
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Blog

Nancy's blog posts are hosted at:
http://slideology.com/

Presentation Design: A Management Philosophy

July 01 2009

It’s hard to stop Nancy Duarte once she gets started talking about design. And that’s exactly what happened when she met Jimmy Guterman, executive editor of MIT Sloan Management Review, at the most recent TED conference. It’s no surprise that Nancy views the world through a design lens, a skill… read more

How Decker Made Me Different

July 01 2009

Spending the day at Decker was delightful. Shortly after arriving, the transformation of my delivery techniques was well underway. The meeting started at 9 a.m. in their San Francisco office. Their office is in a first-class building that is inspirational and professional. The path to their front door walks you through… read more

SlideShare Storytelling Winners Announced Today!

June 30 2009

Today the winners were announced for SlideShare’s “Tell a Story” contest. The contest was sponsored by Fuze Meeting and the top winner won $5,000! Drunkenomics won the $5,000 grand prize: Our very own Alex Varanese won for best design: Best story telling goes to Lubomir Panayotov: Most popular went to Denise… read more

Judging Books by Their Covers

June 26 2009

Ready for a quick design lesson? Click on the picture to go to Joseph Sullivan’s list of Favorite Book Covers for 2008. (That one’s my favorite, by the way.) Now, imagine you wrote a book this year. And your book just entered the market, along with the 172,000 other books published in… read more

And the Winner is…

June 25 2009

We asked you to complete a survey about our blog. And a whopping 469 of you did! Thank you, thank you, thank you! This morning, we compiled all the names… and chose a winner… Congratulations, Trevor Cuss! We’ll be e-mailing you with all the details. Thanks again to everyone who completed the survey–it’s a great… read more

Last Day to Enter to Win Workshop

June 24 2009

Just a quick reminder, today is the last day to complete our survey for a chance to win a workshop! And if you’re holding back because of travel costs, we’d like to remind you our workshops are also available via webinar! So what are you waiting for? Go ahead and complete our… read more

Learning from Books

June 19 2009

The Invention of Hugo Cabret, by Brian Selznick Scholastic Press, 2007, 544 pages.    OK, this book is not new, it’s not about presentations, and it wasn’t even targeted at adults. But it stands as one of the most satisfying and highly visual stories I’ve been exposed to in the past few years… read more

You Could Win a Workshop!

June 19 2009

In order to make our blog the best it can be, we’d love to know a little more about who makes up our community. We’re too proud to beg for this information, but we’re not too proud to bribe! Take a few minutes to fill out our survey (less than 10 questions… read more

An Interview with Daniel Pink

June 16 2009

What a thrill it was to have Daniel Pink (Author of A Whole New Mind) on the line and ask him a quick question about his creative process on Johnny Bunko. It’s very similar to writing a screenplay or developing a presentation. His passion at the end is lovely. Hope… read more

Today’s the Last Day to Submit Stories to the Slideshare Contest

June 15 2009

The $5,000 bounty prize motivated Alex and Ryan to submit their entries to Slideshare for their story contest. Super Cool Dudes 10 Business Lessons Learned read more

Upbringing Plays a Key Role in How We Behave at Work

June 12 2009

I read Sylvia Lafair’s book Don’t Bring It to Work while I was on vacation. She was a family counselor for years and then was brought into corporate America to help resolve team conflicts. Her premise is that we play similar roles at work that we played as a child… read more

Medical Communicators Tell Stories Too

June 11 2009

Betsy Palay is the President of the Association of Medical Illustrators. She’s been a friend of Duarte’s for a few years. We connected around the concepts of making the complex simple. What could be more complex that showing how invisible things happen in our human bodies. Here are her insights… read more

Cliff Atkinson Discusses His New Book

June 09 2009

I had the pleasure of having Cliff Atkinson come through our workshop recently. He wrote the best-selling book Beyond Bullet Points. We had a great time talking about the industry, trends and his new upcoming book. read more

Darn Good Design at the HOW Design Conference

June 09 2009

Imagine my delight to be speaking at the HOW Conference in Austin. It means a lot to me because until Duarte had not been recognized as “viable” by the design community because we developed and designed presentations (which were until now an undesirable communication medium). The HOW Design Conference in Austin,… read more

Multimedia

Webcast: You are a Natural Born (Visual) Storyteller
September 17, 2008
We live in the most innovative time in history. That, coupled with pressure from a global economy, our corporate stories need to be told well and resonate deeply. In this session you'll learn how to step away from your traditional content development...

Nancy Duarte