Nancy Duarte

American writer, speaker, and CEO

Nancy Duarte is an American writer, speaker, and CEO. Duarte is the author of several books, including Slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations (2008), Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences (2010), the HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations (2012), and Illuminate: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies and Symbols (2016). She is the CEO of Duarte, Inc.2

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedUCLA Anderson School of Management3 4

Duarte attended the Management Development for Entrepreneurs program from the Anderson School of Management at UCLA.

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Career

Occupation: speaker, chief executive officer, writer, opinion journalist.7

Known for: DataStory, Illuminate, slide:ology, Slidedocs, The Secret Structure of Great Talks, HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations, Resonate.8 9

Duarte worked with Al Gore on the documentary slide show known as An Inconvenient Truth. Duarte has also worked with TED Talks on quality changes for the presentations given at their events, and has presented her own TED Talks as well. She has been cited by publications writing about presentation style including The Guardian. She is currently the CEO of her eponymous company Duarte, Inc. The company has created tens of thousands of presentations for use by various companies and organizations.

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Personal life

  • CitizenshipUnited States10