Guides and tools

Free templates, guides, and tools to help you write, design and deliver better presentations.

Featured guides

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Guides and tools

Audience Needs Map™

This free, interactive tool guides you through 8 essential steps to better grasp your audience and produces a downloadable brief to align your messaging.

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Guides and tools

Diagrammer®

Choose from over 4,000 free downloadable PowerPoint®-ready diagrams you can customize for slides and documents.

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Guides and tools

Resonate® ebook

A free multimedia version of Nancy Duarte’s award-winning book, Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences.

All guides and tools

A professional is standing at the front of the room, addressing a seated audience. They're smiling, their posture is relaxed, and they're communicating under pressure with confidence.

Communicating Under Pressure Guide

Leaders and teams alike can use this quick tool for self-improvement by identifying the features that define their stress response and begin to mitigate its negative impacts through a recalibrated approach.

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How to Convince Stakeholders Video Course

This free, three-part, on-demand video course will teach you how to present to and convince stakeholders to greenlight your idea or recommendation. Gain critical insights on proven framing, storytelling approach, and the fundamentals of executive presence for confident delivery.

A professional standing in front of a group to offer their unique perspective during a team meeting. This demonstrates how understanding the value of one’s contributions and sharing them confidently is essential to building executive presence.

Executive Presence Perspective Self-Assessment

Confidence can be hard to cultivate. But it starts with understanding the value of your unique perspective. Make your contributions stand out and get real results with this quick self-assessment.

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Skills Roadmap for Data Storytelling

Before embarking on a journey, it helps to know the destination. That’s why our Skills Roadmap for Data Storytelling offers pathways to measurable improvement that center the learning experience.

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Leadership Development Skill-Building Inventory

Leadership development can be costly and time consuming. That’s why Duarte’s Leadership Development Skill-Building Inventory was built with ROI in mind.

Are Your Sales Deals Stalling?

What if it’s not your pitch that’s killing your deals? There’s a hidden communication pattern in enterprise sales that can cost your brand millions of dollars in lost revenue.

A sea of drab, same-colored umbrellas with an arm extended above holding a bright, different colored umbrella. Change conversations require a story crafted that names the problem and provides an exciting, actionable solution to win over crowds and stakeholders. The Venture Scape™ Story Crafter can help.

Change needs a story.
Find yours.

You attended ATD26 and explored how Duarte’s frameworks can help you diagnose audience change resistance and respond with empathy. Here’s how to put that into practice the moment you get back.

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How a communication learning journey helps you hit business goals

Use this mapping tool to identify your organization’s skills gaps. From there, discover which communication learning journey is best to help you hit your business goals.

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How to adapt to your audience’s evolving needs

Use this free resource, to learn about your audience’s evolving needs on a change journey, and what they need to hear from you on each step.

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4 steps to prepare for a hostile audience

Preparing for a presentation that feels more like a fight? Build confidence before you walk in the room with this free resource.

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Data Leadership Skills Diagnostic

Data storytelling skills for executives have never been more important. Test your data leadership skills with this free tool. Identify potential gaps and map a custom learning journey to hone your effectiveness as a data leader.