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Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic (born March 3, 1980) is an American writer, speaker, and CEO. She is founder and CEO of storytelling with data and author of books storytelling with data: a data visualization guide for business professionals (2015), storytelling with data: let's practice! (2019), and storytelling with you: plan, create, and deliver a stellar presentation (2022). She is a speaker on the topics of communicating effectively with data, presenting powerfully, and influencing change.

Education
Knaflic holds a B.S. in Applied and Computational Mathematical Science (2002) and an M.B.A. from the Foster School of Business (2006) at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.

Career
Knaflic founded storytelling with data to help people and organizations create graphs that make sense and weave them into compelling, action-inspiring stories. Her workshops and presentations on the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data are utilized globally by data-minded individuals, companies, and philanthropic organizations. In addition to writing a blog and hosting a podcast covering topics on data presentation, Knaflic’s YouTube channel teaches subscribers about important topics related to creating and presenting data to audiences. Knaflic has been a featured speaker at notable conferences on data culture and information. Prior to storytelling with data, Knaflic was a manager on the Google People Analytics team, where she used a data-driven approach to inform innovative people programs and management practices. She also developed and taught a course on data visualization at Google offices throughout the US and Europe.

Books
Knaflic’s first book, storytelling with data: a data visualization guide for business professionals,  was published in 2015 (Laszlo Bock, former Google CHRO, wrote the foreword). It teaches the fundamentals of data visualization and how to communicate effectively with data. In 2019, Knaflic released storytelling with data: let’s practice!, a companion workbook with practical guidance and exercises to help people hone core skills and become experienced data communicators. storytelling with you: plan, create, and deliver a stellar presentation debuted in 2022 to address the foundational learnings, illustrative content, and communication skills necessary to command and persuade an audience.