Duarte Inc.

“Who really holds the power in the room of a presentation is the audience. Like the audience gets to make a choice if they accept or reject your idea. So the balance of power is with them and not you. So it really is the role of the presenter to be the mentor.”

“The concept that each slide should make one point, so your whole presentation should be grounded in what we call the audience journey, which is the big idea, where you're trying to move them from, where you're trying to move them to, and then a big idea is wha…”

“Before I do a presentation, that's going to require Goals or them reaching goals, or we do an annual vision talk. We do a listening tour first. So some of it's based in surveys, some of it's based in interviews and we feed that information up and then we compa…”

“He said 250,000, but that was 10 years ago and I didn't do the math. So when my team questioned it, I'm like, oh, Dan did the math. They're like, oh, then it's accurate. Cause they thought I was just making up this number. I'm like, no, no, we actually went in…”

“But we had worked with him for five years before Inconvenient Truth. Like people think he went from, you know, vice president To this presenter and I didn't work with him. I let my team work with him.”

“Sometimes you're speaking to an audience that wants high density slides cause that's how they communicate in their culture. And if you showed up with cinematic stage ready slides, they'd laugh you out of the room.”