John Fishback

Current

• Member, Board of Directors, FB&T Brookings at Fishback Financial Corp.
• Principal at 154 Consulting

Past

• Policy Fellow & Executive Advisor at The InPractice Group
• Director, Business Banking Board at Corporate Executive Board
• Associate Director, Sales at Corporate Executive Board

Education

• New York University
• Georgetown University

Recommended

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Connections

217 connections

Industry

Public Relations and Communications

Websites

• My Company
• Twitter

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.

In the past, my work has helped banks make smarter decisions about how to serve small businesses, and my academic work examined what I think are the two foundations of modern decisionmaking: rhetoric and rational choice economics. My masters thesis was on the evolution and use of the term "moral hazard."

John Fishback’s Specialties:

Presentation Consulting, presentations, business plans, financial services consulting

John Fishback’s Experience

• Member, Board of Directors, FB&T Brookings

  Fishback Financial Corp.

  (Public Relations and Communications industry)

  2008 — Present (1 year)

• Principal

  154 Consulting

  (Privately Held; Public Relations and Communications industry)

  May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 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

• 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

Additional Information

John Fishback’s Websites:

• My Company
• Twitter