In this episode, I cover three areas of delivering online presentations that you can master and stay visible and sane in the process.

It's a sample of my flagship online course on presentation delivery.

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Rehgan Avon is the founder and CEO of the Women in Analytics Conference, an organization and industry event that increases visibility to women making an impact in the analytics space by providing a platform to lead the conversations around the advancements of analytical research, development, and applications.

The WiA conference is becoming an increasingly popular and highly respected annual event that gathers cutting-edge female data science and analytics expert speakers and hundreds of practitioner attendees.

I’ll be delivering a 6-hour masterclass at the conference so if you’d like to meet me and level up your game, register today!

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With over 15 years of enterprise analytics experience at monster platforms like Domo, Omniture, and Adobe, Brent Dykes knows a thing or eight about leveraging thoughtfully presented insights to effect organizational change and success.

Brent stopped by the show to discuss his new book, Effective Data Storytelling: How to Drive Change with Data, Narrative and Visuals. It’s one of the most comprehensive reads on the subject I’ve found to date, and dives deepest into the role of narrative arc structure in data presentation (often the most vital, missing ingredient!)

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Today's guest is a woman who has had a formative impact on my journey and whose latest book is my new desktop Bible for data presentation.

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic is the CEO and Founder of Storytelling with Data, a company providing workshops and presentations that teach the basics of data visualization and how to tell compelling stories with data through theory, practical application, and clearly articulated and demonstrated lessons.

She is the author of Storytelling with Data: A Data Visualization Guide for Business Professionals and her newest book, Storytelling with Data: Let's Practice .

She is also the host of the Storytelling With Data podcast and this year, her company launched a Storytelling with Data community, an online community where you can practice in a low risk setting.

The community is highly engaging and members have the opportunity to give and receive feedback and engage in conversations with others.

In this episode, Cole shares the wisdom of her book which is packed with real-world data examples, business scenarios, and brainstorming exercises.

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On the cusp of holiday turkey and tree trimming mayhem, I take a pause from Autumn Author Madness to tell a personal story of being criticised by a member of the industry and how it taught me an important lesson on response and kindness.

I also express my undying gratitude for your continuing support as my listener, and share how I'll be working even harder to get to know you in 2020.

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Nancy Duarte is the founder of Duarte, Inc., a global leader behind some of the most influential visual messages in business and culture. It is the largest design firm in Silicon Valley and also the fifth largest female employer in the area.

Nancy is a communication expert and as a persuasion specialist and she has she cracked the code for effectively incorporating story into business communications.

She has been a speaker at a number of Fortune 500 companies and counts 8 of the top 10 brands in her firm's clientele.

She is the author of six books and today, she shares a wealth of information about her brand new book, DataStory: Explain Data and Inspire Action Through Story.

Tune in to this episode where Nancy shares amazing and actionable tips and tricks for storytelling in data, reaching stakeholders and communicating effectively with the executive suite while also sharing about her new book and some of the mind-blowing concepts she introduces.

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Alberto Cairo is not only a highly revered mind in the data visualization world, he brings a fresh perspective on keeping your charts honest in his brand new book, How Charts Lie..

If you're looking for a way to create and interpret charts accurately and in integrity, this interview is for you.

Alberto is a celebrated visualization educator, designer, and consultant. He is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the School of Communications of the University of Miami and he is also the director of visualization program at UM's Center for Computational Science.

He is also the author of two other data viz Bibles The Truthful Art, and The Functional Art.

In this episode, Alberto Cairo provides his unmatched wisdom on chart creation and interpretation. He debunks the myth of "a picture speaks a thousand words" when it comes to visualization and shares how to create charts that are as close to the truth as possible.

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It's rare when I encounter someone at a conference that not only nails the presentation, leaving me wanting more, but also drops wisdom I can easily say I will use for the rest of my speaking career.

Carlos Gil is an international keynote speaker and award winning digital storyteller with over a decade of experience leading social media strategies for global brands.

He is the author of the upcoming book, The End of Marketing: Humanizing Your Brand in the Age of Social Media and AI set to release in October and you can pre-order your copy now.

In this episode, Carlos provides insight around humanizing your brand. His experience on relating to audiences through storytelling and authentically engaging on social media will leave you in awe.

I found myself being blown away multiple times with new concepts and ideas that are easily implemented and impactful.

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Today's guest, Nir Eyal, has a zone of genius in customer engagement and spends his days writing, consulting, and teaching about the intersection of psychology, technology, and business.

As a matter of fact, MIT Technology Review dubbed him the "prophet of habit forming technology."

He is an active investor in habiforming technology such as Eventbrite and Refresh.io and has a popular and long-standing blog at nirandfar.com.

Author of two books, the bestseller "Hooked: How to Build Habit Forming Products" and the newly released "Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life"

And in this episode, Nir Eyal, provides insight into habit-forming presentations, the psychology that makes some apps so successful, and how to use that information for making an impact to your audience.

He shares his wisdom about the three parts of a habit, the external triggers that other people have studied and written about, and the internal triggers he has studied, especially around escaping discomfort.

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John is a highly experienced digital marketing strategist and consultant with special expertise in developing SEO campaigns, PPC campaigns, Google analytics, technical website auditing, web analytics implementation, and custom conversion tracking.

His passion for growing business by improving their customer acquisition with creative approaches along with thorough research and analysis. He works as a Senior Manager of SEO and Analytics at Beacon Digital and also does his own work as an Independent Contractor focusing on search and analytics for many different industries.

In this episode, John and I discuss my Inspired Insights Data Storytelling Bootcamp class, where he was one of my first students.

He shares valuable insight into how he used this training to improve his client relationships and stabilize his retention. And he even gave me some fresh ideas for new training resources!

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