Portfolio–graphic and visual facilitation at meetings and in projects.
Accenture International Energy & Utilities Conference
The Future of Energy was the topic at Accenture’s annual International Energy and Utilities Conference, an annual gathering of senior executives from around the world who lead energy and utility companies. Because of my background in environmental policy, it was easy to capture the presentations and panel discussions in visual maps. Presenters included Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, MIT Inventor Futurist Ray Kurzweil and Jonathan Silver, Executive Director of Loan Programs with U.S. Department of Energy.
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American Geophysical Union (AGU)
At a three day retreat to envision a new 10 year plan for an organization with 55,000 members who are earth and space scientists, I teamed with two other facilitators to visually summarize the process. We used the Future Search methodology which lends itself to a visual approach as participants are involved with creating timelines and mindmaps. At the end of the meeting, a huge conference room was filled with their ideas represented visually.
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AGU Fall Meeting
At a huge conference attended by 15,000 earth and space scientists, I was unable to work live due to constraints with the conference facility. So I became a roving reporter, taking notes during sessions and composing murals from the notes in the conference atrium where several thousand people walked by, generating a lot of interest. People came by and talked to me while I worked to say they loved what I was doing.
I digitized the murals upon completion and posted them to Twitter. The AGU staff posted them on the Fall Meeting blog and other bloggers did as well on their blogs so that people following the conference from all over the world could see a glimpse of what was going on.
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American Institute of Architects
The AIA has a program called Communities by Design where they put together a project team and drop these folks into a community to give recommendations on challenging issues in order to improve the community’s quality of life through design. I teamed with them on their Miami River Corridor project to synthesize and visually map several meetings with the Commission and the public.
Atlanta Local Food Initiative
At a day-long planning meeting, I graphically facilitated a series of murals for a group of people from the community interested in increasing the amount of local, organic food in Atlanta. And they served strawberries and hand-crafted local cheese during the afternoon break.
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A Closer Look
By conceptually illustrating a new service offering for A Closer Look, a small business that conducts mystery shopping, I created a unique, whimsical marketing piece that clearly shows their clients how the new process delivers value and profits. A Closer Look turned the mural into a PowerPoint which their sales team is using to demonstrate the process step by step.
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CDC’s Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
For the 20th anniversary conference of the CDC’s Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion, I created a 20-year history timeline map that hung prominently at the conference center and was reproduced in a commemorative edition newsletter, showing participants the depth and breadth of the Center’s accomplishments in public health.
At the conference, I visually recorded several keynote speeches and panel discussions.
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Georgia Organics and Slow Food
I have captured keynote speeches for Georgia Organics at their annual conference and other events. They use these murals on their website. Speakers include Michael Pollan author of Omnivore’s Dilemma; Carlo Petrini of Slow Food, Alice Waters, chef of Chez Panisse and grandmother of the organic movement; and George Siemon, CEO of Organic Valley.
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Global Feminisms Collaborative
At Vanderbilt University, I graphically facilitated a two-day meeting of activists and academics from around the world coming together for the first time to form a collaborative around the issue of feminism and the environment. They talked about what it would look like if they were to work more closely together and I captured that vision.
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Johnnetta B. Cole Institute
The Johnnetta B. Cole Institute, a premier thought leader on diversity and inclusion in the workplace, brought corporate leaders from Fortune 100 companies together to talk about issues in the workplace where people are challenged by inequality. During the World Café, I gathered comments occurring at table discussions and built them into a mural representing the major themes that emerged from these rich conversations.
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Lookout Mountain Conservancy
I graphically facilitated a strategic planning retreat with the Lookout Mountain Conservancy, creating a vision map and several strategy maps of where their efforts would have the most impact of protecting more land, resulting in a five-year strategic plan.
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Georgia Center for Nonprofits
At the Georgia Center for Nonprofits conference, I graphically captured key ideas of a World Café brainstorm, giving participants a container for the hundreds of thoughts that poured out around challenges they face.
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Personal mapping and visual business plans
In coaching sessions over the phone, I facilitate and map deep conversations with my clients to uncover where they are stuck on a project, idea or dream they want to bring to fruition. I help them see visually where they want to go and we create action steps to get them there. They get a 4×8 foot map and a digital version of the session.
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