Treasurer

Microsoft PowerPoint MVP Steve Rindsberg is the Lord of All He Surveys at PPTools, where he develops popular add-ins for PowerPoint. There he presides over a vast staff (himself) and reports to the cats and any of the many foreign students that he and his wife have serially adopted. Visit Steve’s website.

Technology Director

As a presentation & visual communication leader, TEDx speaker coach, Microsoft Office Apps & Services MVP and expert trainer on the LinkedIn Learning platform, Chantal and her business partner help speakers and small businesses improve their PowerPoint presentations and public speaking, Microsoft 365 & Teams skills, and equipment/IT security for remote work. She is part of our founding members and worked for our Standards & Certification committee. Visit Chantal’s website.

Membership Director

While working full-time as a Presentation Workflow Coordinator at Goldman Sachs, I attended grad school for several years and received an MBA in Finance & Marketing. For nearly a decade, I was the sole Presentation Specialist at a hedge fund based in NYC before signing up with PGIM Real Estate as a Marketing Manager. As a member of the Presentation Guild since 2016, I have attended the Presentation Summit on multiple occasions and developed a deep appreciation for this community of passionate presentation people.

Director

Tine hails from Denmark, is married to Paul and is the mother of their two girls, Maggie and Mollie.

She has worked in several large international management consulting firms, including McKinsey & Company, creating corporate PowerPoint templates, presentations and graphic design and has been responsible for the PowerPoint presentation training.

Approximately 5 years ago she joined the largest bank in the Nordic region. In her current job she creates PowerPoint templates, presentations and graphic design – simply because it’s her passion.

Advisor

Cliff Atkinson helps organizations when they absolutely have to win a pitch or presentation. He crafted the presentations that helped persuade a jury to award a $253 million verdict to the plaintiff in the nation’s first Vioxx trial in 2005, which Fortune magazine called “frighteningly powerful.”

Cliff’s bestselling book Beyond Bullet Points (published by Microsoft Press) was named a Best Book of 2007 by the editors of Amazon.com, and has been published in three editions and translated into a dozen languages including Chinese, Korean, and Russian.

Cliff’s work has been featured in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, and Fox News. Visit Cliff’s website.

Advisor

Nancy Duarte is a communication expert who has been featured in Fortune, Forbes, Fast Company, Wired, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Huffington Post, LA Times and on CNN. Her firm, Duarte, Inc., is the global leader behind some of the most influential visual messages in business and culture, and has created more than a quarter of a million presentations. As a persuasion expert, she cracked the code for effectively incorporating story patterns into business communications. Resonate, her second book, spent nearly a year on Amazon’s top 100 business book bestsellers list.

Duarte, Inc., is the largest design firm in Silicon Valley, as well as one of the top woman-owned businesses in the area. Nancy has won several prestigious awards for communications, entrepreneurship, and her success as a female executive . She has been a speaker at a number of Fortune 500 companies, and counts many more among her firm’s clientele. Nancy has spoken at numerous conferences and her TEDx talk has had over a million views. She speaks at business schools and lectures at Stanford University a few times per year.

Nancy has over 25 years of experience working with global companies and thought leaders, and she has influenced how the world perceives some of the most important brands and entities, including Apple, Cisco, Facebook, GE, Google, TED, and the World Bank. She is the author of five books. Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences identifies the hidden story structures inherent in great communication, and it spent more than 300 days on Amazon’s top 100 business book bestsellers list. Slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations teaches readers to think visually, and has been translated into eight languages. Harvard Business Review published The HBR Guide to Persuasive Presentations. Her self-published eBook, Slidedocs: Spread Ideas with Effective Visual Documents, has been downloaded more than 40,000 times. Nancy co-authored her latest book, Illuminate: Ignite Change Through Speeches, Stories, Ceremonies, and Symbols, with Patti Sanchez.

Nancy has three grown children who walk in their destiny, a husband who has loved her for over 35 years, and her grandson is the cutest baby on the internet! Visit Nancy’s website.

Advisor

Garr Reynolds is an internationally acclaimed communications consultant and the author of best-selling books including the award-winning Presentation Zen, Presentation Zen Design, and The Naked Presenter. Garr’s approach to communication takes the principles and lessons from the Zen arts in Japan to reveal simple, concrete tips for communicating — and living — better. His fresh approach has inspired millions to communicate more clearly, creatively, and visually.

A sought-after speaker and consultant worldwide, his clients include many in the Fortune 500. An award-winning designer, writer, and musician, he currently holds the position of Professor of Management and Design at Kansai Gaidai University. Garr is a former corporate trainer for Sumitomo Electric Industries in Osaka, and the former Manager for Worldwide User Group Relations at Apple, Inc.

SAY Media out of New York City said in 2011 that Garr is one of the “100 most-influential people on the Internet.” A longtime student of the Zen arts and resident of Japan, he lives in the beautiful countryside of Nara with his wife, two children, and two Siamese cats. Visit Garr’s website.

Advisor

Jerry Weissman is the world’s number one corporate presentations coach. His private client list reads like a who’s who of the world’s best companies, including the top brass at Yahoo!, Intel, Intuit, Cisco Systems, Microsoft, Dolby Labs and many others. Visit Jerry’s website.

Founding President

Echo started her PowerPoint career working in the MedEd industry in 1997 and was awarded Microsoft MVP status three years later. Fast forward nearly 20 years and she’s self-employed, specializing in developing PowerPoint templates, presentation creation, and training for large and small corporate clients. Echo holds a Master’s degree in New Media from Indiana University School of Informatics. She’s written a number of PowerPoint books and has been a featured speaker for the Presentation Summit user conference since its inception. Visit Echo’s website.

Past President

She helps presenters PowerPoint. Responsibly. A certified Woman Owned Business Enterprise, Sandra has been creating presentations for corporations and individuals around the globe since 2001. She’s been a Microsoft PowerPoint MVP since 2008. Visit her website at www.presentationwiz.biz.

Past President

For over a decade, Bethany has been helping clients communicate clearly and visually. Initially in the courtroom and later in boardrooms, training facilities and international conferences, Bethany works with her clients and their content to create narrative and visual interest where there were once only bullet points. Bethany Auck co-owns and operates SlideRabbit, a presentation design boutique. Visit Bethany’s website.