NY Brand Lab Radio | Nancy Duarte

Nancy Duarte is the quintessential visual storyteller. At the forefront of best practices for global business communicators, she's really, in fact, a conquistador who liberates the undiscovered, sets boundaries for safe play, and builds fortresses where dreams can be realized. For 20 years, Nancy has driven the vision and growth of her internationally respected design firm, which has created over a quarter of a million presentations. What's more, she's helped shape the perceptions of many of the world’s leading brands and thought leaders. If you haven't already got your hands on her best-selling and award winning book, Slide:ology The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations, it'll blow your eyes wide open. She continues to advance new forms of presentation through partnerships with innovative forums like TED and PopTech. Nancy serves as a TED Fellows committee member, is a 2009 Woman of Influence and 2008 Communicator of the Year. Nancy’s next book Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences will be published by Wiley and in bookstores October 2010. Go to www.duarte.com. Make sure you spend time probing every corner. There's a spirit of generosity here when it comes to offering such massive high-quality content: It'll put a spring in your step. (FYI That's exactly what brilliantly branded sites do.)