Talks & Interactive Workshops

Better conversations. Clearer thinking. More visible ideas.

Meetings, planning sessions and team conversations can get complicated quickly. These talks and interactive workshops introduce practical ways to make thinking visible—helping people see ideas, uncover assumptions, build shared understanding and move conversations forward.

Designed for conferences, professional development, leadership teams and organizations, sessions range from engaging introductory talks to highly interactive, hands-on workshops. No drawing experience is required.

Making Meetings Visible

For teams that want more productive, participatory meetings.

You Don't Have to Be an Artist to Think Visually

An accessible introduction to visual thinking for almost any audience.

Get Your Sales Process Out of Your Head and Onto the Wall

For sales and leadership teams ready to create clarity around how work actually happens.

Why Six People Leave the Same Meeting With Six Different Understandings

An engaging conference talk about shared understanding, assumptions and communication.

Making Meetings Visible

Simple visual tools for clearer conversations and better collaboration.

What if the ideas in your meeting didn’t disappear into someone’s notes? This interactive session introduces simple visual-thinking techniques that help groups capture ideas, see connections and build shared understanding as conversations unfold. No artistic ability required—just practical tools you can start using in your very next meeting.

Participants will leave with:

Simple visual techniques for capturing and organizing ideas during meetings.
Practical ways to use icons, containers, arrows and structure to make conversations easier to follow.
An understanding of how shared visuals can improve participation, alignment and follow-through.

Available formats:
30 minutes — Conference talk / introduction
60 minutes — Interactive presentation with hands-on exercises ← ideal
90 minutes — Workshop with more practice and application

Best for: Teams, project professionals, managers, facilitators, HR/L&D, consultants, nonprofit leaders.

You Don’t Have to Be an Artist to Think Visually

“I can’t draw” is usually the first thing people say when introduced to visual thinking. The good news? You don’t need to be an artist. In this playful, hands-on session, participants discover how surprisingly simple shapes, figures, symbols and lettering can help them communicate ideas more clearly at work.

Participants will leave with:

Confidence that visual thinking is a learnable professional skill—not an artistic talent.
A small visual vocabulary they can immediately use to communicate common workplace ideas.
Practical ideas for using visuals in meetings, presentations, planning, coaching and everyday conversations.

Available formats:

30 minutes — Energetic conference introduction/demo
60 minutes — Hands-on introductory workshop ← ideal
90 minutes — Expanded workshop with more drawing and workplace application

Best for: Almost anyone, but particularly consultants, coaches, trainers, educators, facilitators and people who have admired graphic facilitation but thought, I could never do that.

Get Your Sales Process Out of Your Head and Onto the Wall

A hands-on approach to making sales processes visible and actionable.

Ask five people how a prospect becomes a customer and you may get five different answers. In this hands-on session, participants learn how to make a sales process visible—revealing handoffs, gaps, assumptions and opportunities that are difficult to spot when the process lives in conversations, spreadsheets or inside someone’s head.

Participants will leave with:

A practical framework for mapping the stages and key activities in a sales process.
A better understanding of how visualization exposes gaps, unclear ownership and inconsistent handoffs.
A method they can use with their own team to create greater clarity before reaching for technology or automation.

Available formats:
45 minutes — Conference presentation/demo
60–75 minutes — Interactive workshop
90 minutes — Hands-on process-mapping workshop
Half day — Deeper facilitated session using an organization’s real process

Best for: Business owners, sales leaders, sales teams, RevOps, marketing leaders, consultants and organizations considering CRM implementation or improvement.

Why Six People Leave the Same Meeting With Six Different Understanding

How visual thinking helps groups create shared understanding.

50-word description
Everyone nodded. Everyone agreed. So why did six people leave with six different ideas about what had just been decided? This session explores one of the hidden problems in meetings: we can use the same words without sharing the same understanding—and demonstrates how making thinking visible can change the conversation.

Participants will leave with:

A new perspective on why apparent agreement doesn't always mean shared understanding.
An understanding of how visualizing ideas helps teams uncover assumptions, differences and missing connections.
Simple techniques for turning abstract conversation into something a group can collectively see, question and improve.

Available formats:
20–30 minutes — Keynote-style conference talk
45–60 minutes — Interactive presentation/demo
90 minutes — Workshop exploring shared understanding through visual exercises

Best for: Leadership teams, project teams, change/OD professionals, consultants, facilitators, HR/L&D, boards and organizations working across functions.

Delivery

Sessions are designed primarily for in-person delivery and select formats can also be adapted for virtual audiences.

Talks & Interactive Workshops