Sunni Brown

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 [...]

Disney-fication: Make a World

Monday, October 12th, 2009 - Filed under Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording

When Disney called, I had to hold on to my mouse ears. It was, of course, a privilege to be invited to partner with Imagineers, and it was made doubly fun because I got to work with Scott Trowbridge – who should probably be a comedian in his spare time. (Nothing like a comic facilitator [...]

Zappos – Key Books Class

Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 - Filed under Graphic Recording, Visual Thinking

As the world largely knows by now, there are many great things about Zappos. But what most people don’t realize is the extent to which that quest for greatness permeates their DNA. Some C-level folks talk a good game about customer and employee happiness, but Tony Hsieh (CEO) can credibly say that he’s obsessed with [...]

Congregation Beth Israel’s Strategy Summit

Wednesday, August 5th, 2009 - Filed under Graphic Recording, Visual Thinking

Congregation Beth Israel is a synagogue that follows Reform Judaic traditions and it’s one of the oldest Jewish places to worship in Austin – founded in 1876. (In case you’re thinking this: “Texas doesn’t have a Jewish population”, just know that I’m thinking this: “Be gone with your stereotypes!”) CBI has a very active Board [...]

Zappos.com Culture Classes

Friday, July 3rd, 2009 - Filed under Graphic Recording

Client: Zappos.com Need: To spruce up their training classes with more memorable content Solution: Graphic Recording as experiment for future partnerships. Outcome: Opportunity to design CEO Tony Hsieh’s PowerPoint presentation and to brainstorm visual thinking activities (0ther than graphic recording) to bring the class participants into the content. Other outcome: Sunni is thrilled.

Dallas 2009 Mastermind – Sheri McConnell, Inc.

Friday, June 19th, 2009 - Filed under Graphic Recording

CLIENT: Sheri McConnell, Inc. NEED: To capture the shared content during a Mastermind on woman entrepreneurs, so each participant could use it as a large-scale (and digitized) visual archive of the event. This was the 2nd Mastermind with this group, so the information is a visual thread, tracking each woman’s progress over the course of [...]

HMSA Business Innovation Facilitation

Thursday, June 18th, 2009 - Filed under Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording

CLIENT: HMSA / Hawaii Blue Cross Blue Shield NEED: Graphically facilitated session around their approach to enterprise business innovation. OUTCOME: Graphic recording of motivation for change and tactical plan. Thumbnail sketches of infographic descriping long-term approach to culture change and business innovation within the health insurance industry.

Caritas Board Retreat – Values

Friday, May 22nd, 2009 - Filed under Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording

VizThink San Jose 2009

Thursday, May 21st, 2009 - Filed under Appearances & Interviews, Graphic Recording, Lights in the People Tunnel, Visual Thinking

Originally when I planned to write this post, I was going to discuss my graphic recording presentation at the VizThink Conference in San Jose, CA. But as I was going through my photographs I realized it was much more exciting to discuss Jessica Hagy, who I had the pleasure to meet, befriend, and eventually coax [...]

Caritas Board Retreat – Outcomes

Monday, May 18th, 2009 - Filed under Graphic Facilitation, Graphic Recording