Nancy Duarte

Nancy Duarte is a CEO and author of six best-selling books. For over 35 years, Duarte, Inc. has worked with the highest-performing brands and executives in the world. The insights from those engagements get transformed into training everyone can learn from. Duarte is a communication expert who has been featured in Fortune, LA Times, Forbes, Fast Company, Wired, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Cosmopolitan, and CNN. Nancy has spoken at American Express, Apple, Cisco, Degreed, Google, LinkedIn, McDonalds, Microsoft, Pfizer, and Qualcomm. Her TED talk has had over 3 million views. She writes for HBR, MIT-Sloan, and Forbes regularly. She has won several awards for communications, entrepreneurship, and her success as a female executive. She’s ranked #67 on the list of top 250 Women in Leadership and is the #1 Global Communication Guru. Her videos are baked into online courses at Harvard, she lectures at Stanford University, and her books are used at almost every top business school in the world. Her HBR book sold so many copies it is listed on the HBR Press Ideas with Impact List, and her work is featured in HBR’s 10 Must Reads for Business Students. As a persuasion expert, she cracked the code for effectively incorporating story patterns into business communications. Oh, and she has two grandsons.

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Futurist & Leadership Strategist. I help orgs lead with clarity in the messy middle of flexibility, trust & transformation. LinkedIn Top Voice (2024, 2025) 🇨🇦 Top 50 Remote Accelerator🌀

I work at the intersection of everyday futurism, leadership, and how work actually gets done.
Hybrid, remote, and AI have converged—and work itself hasn’t caught up.

I help leaders redesign how work flows, how decisions get made, and what humans are really there to do.

Since 2012, I’ve been at the forefront of hybrid work, managing business-critical relationships totaling more than $1 billion. I’ve seen firsthand how the right approach can transform uncertainty into opportunity.

My journey across five corporations—including two global conglomerates—taught me a crucial lesson: the future of work isn’t about location. It’s about connection. That insight led me to develop strategies that don’t just adapt to change—they drive it. Let’s face it, AI isn’t going to slow the pace of change.

What sets my approach apart?

• I blend deep research with innovative thinking
• I translate complex systems into clear, actionable stories
• I bridge the gap between employee needs and business goals

And here’s the part most people don’t see coming:
I combine systems thinking with empathy—mapping invisible dynamics like trust, power, and identity—while holding space for the very real human experience inside organizations. That duality is rare, especially at senior levels.

So much of leadership development is theoretical. My approach is to breathe life into policy - making something 3D out of the one dimensional.

I’m also one of the few with narrative intelligence: the ability to decode bias in corporate language, make sense of cultural friction, and reframe stories in a way that actually shifts behavior—not just sentiment.

Add to that a board-level emotional fluency—the kind that recognizes psychological safety isn’t soft, it’s strategic. How do you find clarity in complexity and move forward when the right decision seems ambiguous?

Leaders tell me, “You’re the voice of the unheard employee,” and “It’s rare to find someone advocating so positively for a better future of work.”

But don’t just take my word for it. As a LinkedIn Top Voice for 2024 & 2025 —an honor awarded to fewer than 300 out of a billion users annually.

Whether I’m advising boards, speaking at global conferences, or hosting the Hope & Possibilities podcast (100+ episodes, thousands of downloads), I’m here to help leaders navigate change with confidence and compassion.

Ready to turn workplace uncertainty into your competitive advantage?
Let’s connect. nola@nolasimon.com


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