John Polk is the President of John Polk & Associates and former Professor of Data Visualization at the University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business. John designed the “Creating Effective Presentations” workshop for Capital One that has since been attended by over 10,000 associates. John’s mix of real-world experience, practical focus, and sense of humor made “Creating Effective Presentations” one of the highest-rated and most-requested workshops. John now teaches workshops and consults at corporations on designing and delivering presentations in ways that drive action. He is on a mission to rid the world of poor presentations while giving leaders the tools to communicate their story in a way that makes their data sing.

John has over 15 years’ experience leading Strategy and Analysis teams across Operations and Marketing. In those roles, he wrote thousands of presentations and coached associates, at all levels, on effective presentation design.

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