As CEO of Duarte Design, Nancy Duarte has advanced the art and literature of presentations, emerging with her agency as one of the most sought-after authorities in presentation design. Mrs. Duarte and Duarte Design have worked with global companies and prominent thought leaders — including Adobe, Cisco, Food Network, Facebook, GE, Google, Al Gore, HP, Nokia, TED, Twitter, and World Bank — to help influence public perception of some of the world’s most valuable brands and many of humanity’s most pressing causes. In 2008, Mrs. Duarte authored Slide:ology—The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations, which won the Axiom Design award for its distillation of best practices in visual communications. For more information on Mrs. Duarte and Duarte Design, visit www.duarte.com.