Brent Dykes is the Founder and Chief Data Storyteller at AnalyticsHero, LLC. He is also the author of Effective Data Storytelling: How to Drive Change with Data, Narrative, and Visuals. Brent has nearly two decades of enterprise analytics experience at Omniture, Adobe, Domo, and Blast Analytics.
His passion for data strategy and data storytelling comes from consulting with many industry leaders including IKEA, Nike, Microsoft, Sony, and Comcast. He is a regular Forbes contributor and has written more than 40 articles on different data-related topics.
In 2016, Brent received the Most Influential Industry Contributor Award from the Digital Analytics Association (DAA). He is a popular speaker at conferences such as Strata, Web Summit, Shop.org, Adtech, Pubcon, RISE, Crunch, and Adobe Summit. Brent holds an MBA from Brigham Young University and a BBA in marketing from Simon Fraser University.
I’m an avid comic book collector. After getting out of the hobby more than 30 years ago, I jumped back in to relive my teenage passion.