Presentation Consultant and Principal, 154 Consulting, LLC
Greater New York City Area
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- Principal at 154 Consulting
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- Policy Fellow & Executive Advisor at The InPractice Group
- Director, Business Banking Board at Corporate Executive Board
- Associate Director, Sales at Corporate Executive Board
- Education
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- New York University
- Georgetown University
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John Fishback’s Summary
The common thread running through all of the work I have done is a desire to help others make better decisions.
I am now focused on the poor decision support provided by the thirty million presentations given every day in this country. Because of poor presentations, executives and other leaders must rely on their gut instinct to determine the best course of action, and individual employees must rely on their own best guess about what their organizations expect of them.
Better presentations won't solve the world's problems, but they'll lead to better decisions along the way. It is, at least, a good first step.
John Fishback’s Specialties:
Presentation Consulting, presentations, business plans, financial services consulting
John Fishback’s Experience
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Principal
154 Consulting
(Privately Held; Public Relations and Communications industry)
May 2007 — Present (1 year 7 months)
The best minds of our generation are locked in conference rooms, reading bullet points to one another. Lots of consultants are making money by pointing out that such presentations are boring; Design firms in particular are raking in business making presenters' slides look better. But prettier slides don't address the real problem of poor presentations, because the problem isn't bullet points and clip art.
The problem is that most presentations fail to provide compelling logic that can help the audience understand the issues presented and the alternatives for action.
154 Consulting is focused on building presentations that help drive decisions.
John Fishback’s Education
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New York University
MA, Interdisciplinary - Economics, politics, rhteoric. Thesis on the rhetoric of Moral Hazard., 2005 — 2007
I attended the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU. The MA program there allows students to construct their own program by combining courses from (almost) any department at NYU.
My work at Gallatin focused on rational choice economics and how the language of rational choice and of economics in general has come to dominate discussions of public policy. -
Georgetown University
1993 — 1997
