Soundview Executive Book Summaries. - Resonate: present visual stories that transform audiences

Nancy Duarte boils down great presentations to the essence of what connects peoplegreat stories. As a leader, you need to connect, convince, and change people with your wordsso dont you dare start your next presentation without consulting this book first!

Charlene Li
Author, Open Leadership
Founder, Altimeter Group

Storytelling, empathy, and creativity are fundamental to the way we communicate, learn, and grow. Resonate teaches us how to access and master these gifts in meaningful and productive ways.

Biz Stone
Twitter Co-Founder

Resonate takes you on a beautiful journey illustrating how to construct and deliver the kind of presentations that are truly remarkable, memorable... and may even change the world. Anyone with ambition to make a difference in this world needs to get this important book. Nancy has made another remarkable contribution!

Garr Reynolds
Author of Presentation Zen and The Naked Presenter

TED knows first-hand how ideas that spread change the world. If you read Resonate, youll learn how to present ideas that stand out, are repeated, and create change.

Tom Rielly
Community Director, TED Conferences

Nancy knows a secret, and shes not shy about sharing it: If you are intentional about your presentations, if you tell a story on purpose, if you set out to cause the change you say you want, youll succeed. This book goes a long way in selling you on making that choice.

Seth Godin
Speaker, Blogger, and Author

There is a stark difference between facts and a story, between an image and a design, between conveying information and moving people. These differences distinguish people who yell but arent heard from those whose whispers resonate loudly and clearly. This is a gorgeous book. Powerful ideas, visually delectable, and with life-changing insight.

Jennifer Aaker
General Atlantic Professor of Marketing at Stanford Graduate School of Business and Co-Author of The Dragonfly Effect

At the heart of leadership and learning is great storytelling. Resonate will both inspire and give you the tools to teach, motivate, and encourage audiences not just to listen but to change and to act... and the world needs a lot more of that! This book is a keeper, one to be read and reread by anyone in the business of persuasion.

Jacqueline Novogratz
CEO of Acumen Fund and Author of The Blue Sweater

Shes done it again! Far more than an encore performance, Resonate has everythingthe beginning, middle, and endto make your pitch sing. Bravo, Nancy!

Raymond Nasr
Advisor, Twitter, Inc.

As Nancy Duarte knows better than anyone, its not about the slides. This smart, insightful book will teach you how to use the power of story to recast your thinking and reinvigorate your presentations. Resonate is a must-read for anyone who has to stand before an audience and persuade.

Daniel H. Pink
Author of DRIVE and A Whole New Mind

Duartes approach takes the reader through somethingtransformation is the keybeing purposeful about how and where you take your audience is something that most presenters fail to even consider, let alone construct.

Danl Lewin
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Corporation

Nancy is one of the great storytellers of our time. Thanks for letting us take a look behind the curtain and learn from your giftedness!

Mark Miller
Vice President, Training and Development, Chick-fil-A

The next time you need to tell a story, be sure to have a copy of Nancys book as your trusty guide. Through the ups and downs, the tears and the applause, Nancy will help you find your way through the often mysterious, fascinating, and powerful world of storytelling.

Cliff Atkinson
Author of Beyond Bullet Points and The Backchannel

The problem with most presentations is that speakers dont have a compelling story to tell before they open PowerPoint. Resonate solves the problem. Its another magnificent book by the worlds top presentation designer, Nancy Duarte. It will hold a permanent place next to Duartes Slide:ology on my bookshelf!

Carmine Gallo
Communication Skills Coach and Author of The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs

Resonate shows you how to evolve information into a story that connects with your audiences and rallies them to action. This powerful and groundbreaking work is essential reading for executives, entrepreneurs, students, teachers, civil servantseveryone with ideas and the desire to move them forward.

Karen Tucker
CEO, Churchill Club

Nancy Duarte

author of slide:ology

Resonate

Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences

by Nancy Duarte

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