Nolan Haims

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Nolan Haims has decades of experience designing visual communications for the largest brands and organizations. He trains organizations to communicate more visually and create compelling stories with data. Nolan speaks at national conferences, writes extensively on visual storytelling, and is one of the co-hosts of the long-running Presentation Podcast. As one of only 15 Microsoft PowerPoint MVPs in the U.S., 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.

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Jesús Ramirez

Jesús Ramirez

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Jesús Ramirez is a digital graphics expert, speaker, and educator specializing in Adobe Photoshop. Jesús has over 16 years of professional design experience and has worked with clients such as Adobe, Microsoft, Motorola, and Conde Nast.

Jesús is best known as the founder of the Photoshop Training Channel, one of the most popular Photoshop YouTube channels in the world with 1.8 million subscribers. You can find his articles and tutorials in many well-known publications and blogs, including the Adobe Creative Cloud Blog, Adobe’s Create Magazine, and Photoshop User Magazine.

Jesús has been a speaker at many industry-related events worldwide. Including events in Australia, Asia, and Latin America. Most notably Adobe MAX, Adobe SUMMIT, Adobe MAKE IT, CreativePro, CreativeLive, Talent Land, PhotoPlus, Photoshop World, Pluralsight LIVE, and WPPI.

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Lisa Carney

Lisa Carney

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I’m an entertainment retoucher with a photographer’s soul. My work tells stories rendered in pure light. Because, at the end of the day, it’s all about the light. Capturing it. Refining it. Harnessing it to create mood. Theme. Stories. I have worked in the entertainment ad industry for the last 30 years.

Graduated from Art Center College of Design with a BS in Photography. My undergraduate study was in Art History/Studio Arts minor from San Francisco State University.

I’ve had the privilege to live in Italy and France throughout my career. Now I call California my home.

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Tony Harmer

Tony Harmer

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Tony Harmer, also known as The Design Ninja, is a creative Swiss-army-knife and learning-content author with over four decades of experience in the creative world. Currently serving as the Chief Entertainment Officer of DN:TV, Tony has a diverse background that includes working as a press operator, concept artist in IP development, and designer/illustrator. He has also been a regular contributing writer for Computer Arts, creating engaging articles and videos on InDesign and Photoshop projects.

Tony’s impressive list of certifications reflects his expertise and reputation as a respected instructor in numerous applications. He has conducted graphic production and animation training worldwide, which ultimately led to his employment as a specialist solutions consultant at Adobe. During his tenure, he worked closely with major brands and design companies, contributing to their workflows. Although he left Adobe in 2018, Tony maintains his connection to the company as a guest and host on Adobe Live in the UK and USA.

As an author, Tony has created several popular video titles for LinkedIn Learning, attracting over 2.2 million learners. He is also an avid live-streamer, regularly streaming weekly.

Tony’s captivating speaking style and offbeat sessions have earned him popularity as a speaker and presenter. His sessions are filled with a wealth of tips, techniques, insights, and inspirations, delivered with a contagious sense of humor and enthusiasm.

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Ina Saltz

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Ina Saltz is the author of eight typography and design courses on LinkedIn Learning which have been viewed by over 600,000 unique users.

She is the author of Typography Essentials: 100 Design Principles for Working With Type (2019). She is a co-author of Typography Referenced: A Comprehensive Visual Guide to the Language, History and Practice of Typography, named one of the best eleven reference books of 2012 across all subject matter by the American Library Association. She also photographed and interviewed over 900 people with typographic tattoos for her popular 2 volume set of Body Type: Intimate Messages Etched in Flesh.

Ina has also written over fifty articles on design and typography for various design journals, contributed to five books by Steven Heller, and authored fifteen essays for Phaidon’s Archive of Graphic Design.

For over twenty years, Ina served as the Design Director at Time Magazine (International Editions), Worth Magazine, Golf Magazine and others. She was one of the first art directors to work on a computer at Time Inc’s Teletext Project. She is a two term board member of the Type Directors Club.

Ina lives in New York City with her husband. She has no pets or tattoos, but she does have favorite typefaces (Requiem, Bickham Script, and Franklin Gothic No. 2) and favorite characters (&, Q, Z, and R).

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Richard Goring

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Richard is a Director at BrightCarbon, the specialist presentation and eLearning agency. He enjoys helping people create engaging content and communicate effectively using visuals, diagrams, and animated sequences that explain and reinforce the key points, which is supported by plenty of resources and tips at www.brightcarbon.com.

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Jole Simmons

Jole Simmons

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Jole Simmons is a seasoned presentation designer, LinkedIn Learning author and podcast host living in the Bay Area. Nicknamed “The Presentation Guy” by some of his early clients, he adopted that as the name of his design company and has never looked back. Jole is originally from Maryland and saw the need for presentation designers in Silicon Valley, so he moved to San Francisco to work on presentations for large companies like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, YouTube, Gap, and Workday. He’s now a LinkedIn Learning author with several classes under his belt, and recently started a podcast “Presentation Junkies” with his good friend Lisa Marie Grillos. He currently lives in Daly City, CA and has an amazing 11-year-old daughter named Mia.

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Trish Witkowski

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Trish Witkowski is president of Foldfactory.com, curator of the world’s most exciting collection of folded print and direct mail samples, and host of “60-second Super-cool Fold of the Week” on YouTube—a series that has surpassed 580 episodes. She frequently speaks to designers, marketers, and graphic arts industry organizations to illustrate the power of print + digital marketing. Trish is also an instructor for LinkedIn Learning and MarketWise Academy, a blogger, and the author of several books on print marketing and direct mail strategy.

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Bart Van de Wiele

Bart Van de Wiele

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Bart is a trainer, worldwide public speaker, LinkedIn Learning author and author of the book “Photoshop-Illustrator and InDesign Collaboration & Workflow”. He is based in Belgium and works for Adobe as Head of Solutions Consulting and Tech Evangelism where his team of product experts help customers reach their business objectives using Adobe’s digital media solutions.

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Laurie Ruhlin

Laurie Ruhlin

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Laurie is an Adobe Certified Instructor in InDesign and Illustrator and an active user of many of the Creative Cloud programs in her graphic design business. She provides classroom and custom training both live and online as a consultant. This will be her seventh CreativePro Week as a speaker.

In addition to her teaching and speaking, she is a graphic designer, developing brochures, catalogs, newsletters, logos and interactive documents for a wide variety of clients. She is the author of a course for Ajar Productions – Creating your First Interactive Document with InDesign and in5. She is a writer for InDesign Magazine and has several videos on the InDesign Secrets YouTube channel. From her diverse graphic design and consulting work, Laurie brings a wide variety of real-world knowledge into the classroom.

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