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Nancy Duarte

Bio

Nancy Duarte is a communication expert who has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Wired, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Time Magazine and on CNN. Her firm, Duarte, Inc., is the global leader behind some of the most influential visual messages in business and culture, and has created more than a quarter of a million presentations. As a persuasion expert, she cracked the code for effectively incorporating story patterns into business communications and is also a Harvard Business Review contributor. She’s written five best-selling books of which four have won awards. Duarte, Inc., is the largest design firm in Silicon Valley, as well as one of the top woman-owned businesses in the area. Nancy has won several prestigious awards for communications, entrepreneurship, and her success as a female executive. On the list of top 250 Women in Leadership, Duarte ranks #67 and on World's Top 30 Communication Professionals for 2017, Duarte ranks #1. She has been a speaker at a number of Fortune 500 companies, and counts many more among her firm’s clientele. She has spoken at numerous conferences and her TEDx talk has over two million views.

Nancy Duarte Books

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Public Speaking and Presenting (with featured article "How to Give a Killer Presentation" By Chris Anderson) book cover

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Public Speaking and Presenting (with featured article "How to Give a Killer Presentation" By Chris Anderson)

Harvard Business Review
DataStory book cover

DataStory

Nancy Duarte
Harvard Business Review Guides Ultimate Boxed Set (16 Books) book cover

Harvard Business Review Guides Ultimate Boxed Set (16 Books)

Harvard Business Review
Influence and Persuasion (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series) book cover

Influence and Persuasion (HBR Emotional Intelligence Series)

Harvard Business Review
HBR Guides to Being an Effective Manager Collection (5 Books) (HBR Guide Series) book cover

HBR Guides to Being an Effective Manager Collection (5 Books) (HBR Guide Series)

Harvard Business Review
Good Charts for Persuasive Presentations book cover

Good Charts for Persuasive Presentations

Scott Berinato
Successful Writing and Speaking: The Communication Collection (9 Books) book cover

Successful Writing and Speaking: The Communication Collection (9 Books)

Harvard Business Review
Illuminate book cover

Illuminate

Nancy Duarte
Resonate book cover

Resonate

Nancy Duarte
HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations (HBR Guide Series) book cover

HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations (HBR Guide Series)

Nancy Duarte
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