Nolan has decades of experience designing visual communications for the largest brands and organizations in the U.S. having created thousands of presentations including TED Talks and keynote addresses for Fortune 500 CEOs.

As Vice President and Director of Presentation for Edelman, the world’s largest PR firm, he created and ran a department dedicated to raising the agency’s bar on visual communications and created multi-million dollar-winning pitches.

He trains organizations to communicate more visually and create compelling stories with data. He speaks at national conferences and writes extensively on visual storytelling. As one of only 15 Microsoft PowerPoint MVPs in the country, he regularly advises the PowerPoint development team on the industry standard software. He is the author of thebetterdeckdeck.com and runs his own design consultancy in Montclair, NJ: NolanHaimsCreative.com.

In a past life, he was an award-winning magician and juggler and performed with the Moscow Circus and Vermont’s Circus Smirkus before turning to theatre. Nolan directed and wrote professionally, creating stories on stages in New York and around the country for a decade.

Nolan holds a degree in media writing and theatre from Northwestern University.

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