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“just read a Mac World magazine just read it through once”

Speaker: Nancy Duarte▶ Watch at ~10:00approx.

You are not the hero of your presentation — the audience is; your job is to be Obi-Wan, not Luke.

Make ideas visible — through a diagram, a drawn napkin, or one unforgettable star moment — so the whole room aligns on the same picture.

Treat nerves as fight-or-flight chemistry and deliberately reset your body and mental model before you walk on.

Match slide density to the medium — cinematic stage to circulated slide doc — while every slide makes one point serving one big idea.

Lead change as a movement across five acts — Dream, Leap, Fight, Climb, Arrive — fueling the right emotion at each phase.

Alternate between current reality and a better future to create longing that moves an audience to act.

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