SPOTLIGHT: Create a Compelling Data Story with Nancy Duarte

*This episode is an excerpt taken from our 2020 interview.


On this episode of the Talent Angle podcast, executive Nancy
Duarte shares insights from her new book DataStory: Explain Data
and Inspire Action through Story. Duarte emphasizes the
importance of empathy when presenting data, offers compelling
structures for storytelling and outlines strategies to craft
data-driven recommendations.


Nancy Duarte is a communication expert who has been featured in
several media outlets and is also a Harvard Business Review
contributor. As a persuasion expert, she specializes in
incorporating story patterns into business communications, and
her firm, Duarte, Inc., is a leader behind some of the most
influential visual messages in business and culture. She's
written five bestselling books—four of which have won awards.
She's also spoken at numerous conferences and her TEDx talk has
garnered over two million views. She regularly speaks at business
schools and is a lecturer at Stanford University.