About Us

John Fishback is the founding principal of 154 Consulting. As a management consultant at the Corporate Executive Board (a firm known for strong presentations), John was responsible for translating complex research into compelling presentations and then delivering those presentations hundreds of times each year to audiences around the world. After leaving CEB, John worked as an independent consultant focused on presentations before forming 154 Consulting to bring together consultants that understand visual language and designers that understand management problems. John has a BA from Georgetown and an MA from New York University's Gallatin School, where he studied the rhetoric of rational choice economics and made friends with Georg.

Georg Pedersen is the design principal for 154 Consulting. Before joining 154 Georg worked as the multimedia designer for Bain & Company. At Bain he focused largely on information design, helping to develop many of Bain's visual standards for their materials, presentations, and graphs. Georg has a BFA in Communication Design from Massachusetts College of Art and an MA from New York University's Gallatin School, where he studied new media and advocacy and met John.

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