Archive for the ‘Graphic Recording’ Category

Dell Customer Advisory Panel – Austin, TX

Dell Customer Advisory Panel – Austin, TX

Sunday, June 20th, 2010 - Filed under Graphic Recording

Dell recently did a very impressive thing: they invited influential bloggers who had ranted about their products and services online to come to their headquarters and have a real conversation about what they’re doing wrong and how they can do it better. It’s not easy to get feedback on things that matter the most to [...]

Zappos Insights Bootcamp – Las Vegas, NV 2010

Zappos Insights Bootcamp – Las Vegas, NV 2010

Monday, May 3rd, 2010 - Filed under Graphic Recording, Lights in the People Tunnel

I was absolutely impressed with the Zappos Insights Bootcamp. It’s a 2-day workshop designed to expose people to their famous culture – the values that drive it and the people and policies that keep it growing. I was so impressed, in fact, that I’ll write another blog post soon showing the video with interviews from [...]

Dell Hi-Ed Marketing Strategy Sketch Session

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 [...]

SXSW 2010 Interactive Keynotes

SXSW 2010 Interactive Keynotes

Friday, March 26th, 2010 - Filed under Graphic Recording

Again this year I was lucky enough to be invited to participate as the graphics curator and a graphic recorder for SXSW Interactive. Above are the murals I created live during Valerie Casey’s keynote (Founder of the Designers Accord) and Twitter CEO Evan William‘s keynote. The crowd during the keynotes was 4,000 strong this year, [...]

SXSW Interactive 2010: Done and done.

SXSW Interactive 2010: Done and done.

Friday, March 19th, 2010 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Graphic Recording, Visual Notetaking, Visual Thinking

2010 was my most immersive year for SXSW and oddly enough, my most tranquil. I had more responsibilities than ever during the event but I also got more rest. I think that means I’m growing up. I was able to (1) host a VizThink SXSW party with Dave Gray, (2) curate a team of 6 [...]

Producing TEDx Austin at KLRU Austin City Limits

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, [...]

HMSA Leadership Summit – Honolulu, HI

HMSA Leadership Summit – Honolulu, HI

Sunday, January 24th, 2010 - Filed under Graphic Recording, Visual Notetaking

HMSA (Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Hawai’i) has risen to the top of my client list due to the nature of the projects we’re involved with and my deep respect for the efforts of the leadership and the Innovation Team. They are transforming the organization in service to their customers and I’ve been lucky enough to [...]

CLIC Conference – Hyderabad, India

CLIC Conference – Hyderabad, India

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 - Filed under Graphic Recording, Visual Notetaking

BrightSpot had its first international invitation this year, to attend the CLIC Conference at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad, India. The conference was hosted by the Centre for Leadership, Innovation and Change and it gave a forum to CEOs and other high-level execs to discuss business and spirituality – yes Americans, I did [...]

Temporary Cover for Knowledge Games!

Temporary Cover for Knowledge Games!

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 - Filed under Gamestorming: A Playbook, Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording, Visual Thinking

Nothing like seeing a prospective cover for your book makes you feel inclined to start churning chapters out! (I hope it’s having the same effect on my co-authors.) Ladies and gentleman, I’m thrilled to show you for the first time the cover for the magnum opus that Dave Gray, James Macanufo and I have been [...]

BrightSpot in India’s National Newspaper

BrightSpot in India’s National Newspaper

Monday, November 9th, 2009 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Graphic Recording

The Centre for Leadership, Innovation and Change holds an annual conference in India called Igniting the Genius Within. So, due to a string of seemingly random events, I was invited to participate as a graphic recorder in this year’s conference in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. The participants in this conference are representative of a sort [...]