Transform Your Data Communication Strategy

Learn How to Talk About Numbers

After developing Making Numbers Count at Stanford Business School with my coauthor Chip Heath, I’ve spent the past several years adapting and revising the material for a diverse group of audiences.

My workshops and instructional tools teach how to communicate complex data in a clear, engaging, and motivating way.

  • Receive customized training. My workshops run from 90 minutes to full-day sessions, and can be tailored to solve your group’s specific problems.
  • Easy-to-remember frameworks. Straightforward steps designed to make your data sing (Simplify, Clarify, Captivate, and Motivate) and make audiences take action.
  • Bespoke style guides. I work with brand and marketing directors to ensure consistency on all of your future numbers-related messaging.
  • Ongoing support. I have a “customer for life” policy: get virtual sessions, video explanations, and email assistance.

I’m an award-winning science writer and the bestselling coauthor of Making Numbers Count: The Art and Science of Communicating Numbers. (My writing and brainstorming partner, Chip Heath, also wrote Switch and Made to Stick.)

I’ve worked as the data storytelling and communication instructor for Section4, and a former middle school math teacher with Teach for America, I bring deep experience as a teacher to:

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Testimonials

Absolutely superb. We had a blast while saving an untold number of hours, getting solutions we didn’t realize that we needed.

Nigel Glennie, SVP of Global Communications, Ecolab

Every organization needs this workshop. Helpful doesn’t begin to cover it…

CHLOE JOHNSON, HEAD OF INTERNAL EDUCATION AT SQUARE

Fantastic—I couldn’t believe how many insights were packed in.

SUE YORK, TRAINING MANAGER, AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH SOCIETY

I’ve helped:

  • Strategists and management to craft messages that resonate between departments
  • Financial planners to discuss plans for clients
  • Ad agencies
  • Small business groups and marketing mavens to perfect their messaging
  • Entrepreneurs and nonprofits pitching VCs and investors
  • Sales teams
  • Educational organizations transforming their communication strategies and devising new benchmark standards
  • Communications, marketing, and PR departments

Details

Want personalization? This one’s for you.

Includes:

  • Two discovery sessions with clients to pinpoint messaging pain points
  • Client approval of workshop modules and materials (2 rounds)
  • 2-3 hour workshop (can be split up into 2-3 sessions)
  • Exclusive 35-page Making Numbers Count workbook
  • Private password-protected webpage for participants, featuring links to the deck, workbook, reading guides, and extra PDFs
  • Two follow-up consulting sessions

Includes:

  • 90 minute to 3 hour workshop (can be split up into 2-3 sessions)
  • Exclusive 35-page Making Numbers Count workbook
  • Private password-protected webpage for participants, featuring links to the deck, workbook, reading guides, and extra PDFs
  • Book signing, Q&A, meet and greet

Investment: starting at $10k plus travel from PDX

Includes:

  • Preliminary discovery calls with client
  • Client approval of workshop modules and materials
  • 2.5 hour workshop (split up into 2 sessions)
  • Exclusive Making Numbers Count workbook
  • Bonus flowchart and customized style guide
  • Private password-protected webpage for participants, featuring links to the deck, workbook, reading guides, and extra PDFs
  • Book signing
  • Free giveaway for workshop participants
  • 3 follow-up sessions

Investment: starting at $20k plus travel from PDX

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