The Eggs of Possibility

by | visioning

I’ve been doing a lot of networking, which I like to think of as calling my boats home to me. See I have this image of my ideal clients and partners as sailboats, bobbing in a calm harbor just off my tropical island. Have I mentioned that the metaphor for my business...

My business has colors? (Of course it does!)

by | coaching

OMG, I color-coded my business and I am so happy. Oh the happy! Everything makes sense to me now. Allow me to explain. I’ve been doing some coaching with the lovely and brilliant Cairene, a systems and time management savant, of ThirdHandWorks. She totally gets us...

Visually mapping Slow Food=Love

by | client stories

I had the distinct pleasure of visually mapping a presentation that Carlo Petrini, founder of Slow Food, gave to an audience at the CDC the other week on food policy. This was the third such talk in a series that began with Alice Waters then Michael Pollan and now...

This week’s whimsy: Save the words edition.

by | visual thinking

A small collection of whimsy—pure and simple. Just cool stuff creative people are contributing to the world that catches my eye and lightens the moment. Might generate an idea here or there. Might inspire something. Might just be fun and remarkable. Whimsy=...

How visual mapping enlivens conferences

by | conferences

Back in December (seems like so long ago), I spent six days with 15,000 brilliant earth and space scientists from around the world who flock annually to San Francisco for the AGU Fall Meeting. I was invited to visually map parts of the conference after I visually...