Many leaders and entrepreneurs who took a presentation skills class I recently led at Harvard were looking for tactics to improve how they communicate data. There’s a trick to presenting numbers in an ...

August 11, 2025 - Previous articles in this series have explored identification, preservation, collection, review and production of novel data sources, but I would be remiss if I left out the last, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Esther Choy covers leadership with a focus on business storytelling. Here’s a story about two people who are persuaded to make two ...

It’s easy to think members of the C-suite will be highly critical. However, they respond to great presentation skills just like any other team member. For one moment, imagine you’ve been assigned to ...

An estimated 350 PowerPoint presentations are given every second around the world. How many are ‘boring’ is impossible to know, but as a communication advisor who watches presentations every week, ...

Before talking about best practices for visually presenting scientific data, it is important to summarize and define what tools are available. For most fields, graphs are the most common form of ...

The story/stories you tell using the results of your assessments can, (and should), look different depending on the audience, whether it is internal or external, and what the intended message is to be ...