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Strategic Doodling against Cancer with the American Cancer Society

Sunday, April 17th, 2011 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording

There’s no question that the American Cancer Society has its work cut out for it. This organization tackles some of the most challenging issues in society like changing behaviors around smoking, encouraging early cancer screening and educating children on the risks of obesity. But juggling priorities and evaluating resources can be challenging even for experts. [...]

Gamestorming: A Videographic Explanation

Monday, January 17th, 2011 - Filed under Explanatory Videos, Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Product Explanations

Gamestorming from XPLANE on Vimeo. XPLANE is and will always be among my favorite companies, and my co-author Dave Gray is and will always be among my favorite people. The above video is one more reason why I joined forces with his genius. It explains the essence of our work described in the book Gamestorming. [...]

Workin’ for the Unions – Gamestorming in D.C.

Tuesday, November 30th, 2010 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, Visual Thinking

I refreshed my union history during the latest Gamestorming session right down the street from the White House. Working with Union Privilege, a program of the AFL-CIO, together we used visual thinking and game techniques to devise their master plan for shifting from good to great. I invented one game that actually wasn’t in the [...]

5 Best Practices for Presentations

Friday, November 19th, 2010 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, PowerPoints, Visual Thinking

I had a surprise client turn into a favorite client recently, namely ViaTech Global Publishing. Kurt Heusner, the CMO, tracked me down like many of my clients – through the semantic web – and together we planned a really successful session for 75 of their top team members. I met with Kurt before Gamestorming was published [...]

Innovation’s Secret Sauce: A presentation inspired by Steven Johnson.

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, PowerPoints

Steven Johnson’s latest book Where Good Ideas Come From landed in my lap at exactly the right time. I was designing a 2-day innovation session for Razorfish, along with the magnificent Bumper Carroll, and Johnson’s thoughts on innovation hit me like a bolt out of the blue (although, if you read the book, you’ll learn that [...]

The Doodle Revolution at Duarte Design

Thursday, October 14th, 2010 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, The Doodle Revolution, Visual Thinking

Sunni Brown at Duarte from Duarte Design on Vimeo. Nancy Duarte, CEO of Duarte Design, is rapidly becoming one of my heroes. She’s not only intelligent, beautiful and driven, but she also has a humility and heart of gold you don’t see often in people at her level. Her firm designs presentations for people who [...]

TEDx Austin – Lo Tech Social Network (p. 105 of Gamestorming)

Sunday, September 26th, 2010 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Visual Thinking

As many of you know, TEDx events have sprung up all over the world. Planning the bigger events takes a lot of time and effort from volunteers who are serious about “ideas worth spreading.” I’m one of those volunteers, having been on the production team for TEDx Austin since its inception. The team was very supportive of [...]

Interview: On the Road with iV

Sunday, August 1st, 2010 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, Visual Thinking

Every year during SXSW, Lyn Graft produces On the Road with iV while Ingrid Vanderveldt interviews some of the SX panelists and presenters. I was pleased to be invited to join them and Ingrid asked great questions about my work, SXSW, and how to manage the inherent craziness that is the biggest event in Austin. [...]

Dell Hi-Ed Marketing Strategy Sketch Session

Sunday, April 25th, 2010 - Filed under Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording

I always say, when you can SEE a challenge, you can solve a challenge. This graphic recording session was with Dell’s Higher Education Marketing team. They have a comprehensive and executable strategy for moving hi-ed institutions toward virtualization, but the team needed to see how the many moving parts fit together and determine how they [...]

Producing TEDx Austin at KLRU Austin City Limits

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, Lights in the People Tunnel, Visual Templates, Visual Thinking

Producing TEDx Austin felt like birthing some kind of gigantic baby. I think I can speak for the entire team – Nancy Giordano, Jen Spencer, Kelley Burrus, Shannon Mehner, Chris Justice, Mary Baird-Wilcox and Stacy Weitzner – when I say that it would be impossible to capture the experience in one word. There were triumphs, [...]

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