Where creative ideas come from or what I learned about my business from riding in a white limo.

by julie | visioning

Two weeks ago I was in Chicago for work. It was a sweet gig. About three hours of visually mapping the Keith Ferrazzi’s keynote (he of Never Eat Alone fame) and a small bit of a digital storytelling workshop. There was the set-up part: super easy because the folks who...

Shelter from the storm.

by julie | visioning

The past two months my business has taken a downturn, as in the amount of money coming in not the amount of enthusiasm and effort going out. August I expected to be slow and I planned for it. But September? I didn’t count on that month being slow too. This is...

Making Ideas Visible is getting around on the interwebs, hubba hubba

by julie | coaching

I’m on the wall. One of my clients, the brilliant Julie Wilson who works at Harvard and found me through the HBR article I was mentioned in, wants to change the education system in the US. She came to me with her ideas and mission. Signed up for the year-long viz biz...

Dear Harvard Business Review,

by julie | graphic facilitation

Thank you so much for publishing an article about the field of graphic facilitation and for including my name in the first graph. It’s a good thing my SEO rocks because you didn’t mention the name of my business, Making Ideas Visible, or supply a link. But hey, that’s...

42 things you might not know about me.

by julie | graphic facilitation

Because two of my most favorite and trusted introverts just did this, I was inspired to follow in their footsteps. Lisa has a great explanation at the beginning of her list about what it’s like to be an introvert—really we’re not aloof, we just want to connect at a...