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Welcome to the thINKing Canvas. I believe that through curating spaces for others so ideas can gather and grow and through the use of visual translation and graphic facilitation, individuals and companies can achieve their vision of success.

So if you are wondering what is visual translation and why is it important? Simply put, its like the overdrive gear for the thinking brain in a physical and tangible form.

“It’s About Curating A Space Where Ideas Can Grow”

What I do for meetings, strategy session and collaboration gatherings is what Google Maps does for travelers. I help capture ideas and create visual maps and big picture canvases of collaborations, shared ideas and conversations at all levels to help envision and guide groups and teams to their goals and create a piece of memorabilia that will be referenced long after the event.

Through the use of visual translation and focused listening skills, I help translate intangible ideas into tangible content.

Individuals wishing to capture idea development, group ideation sessions needing to visualize strategy planning to corporate and industry conferences seeking to create visual thinking experiences and powerful memorabilia for presenters and attendees alike have leveraged visual translations.

“This is more than performance art, this is art that improves performance.“

If you’re ready to elevate and see your ideas, create an experience to be remembered and leverage the power of visualization then all you need to do is ask. Today is the best opportunity to begin the change for tomorrow.

“Together, we can now see the big picture and act as one in achieving our vision.”

Visual Translations

Visual Translations are graphic captures of conversations, meetings and various types of presentations. More than just taking notes and collecting content, visual translations capture the context and the high-level relevant information lost in simple text.

“It’s like having a photo of the event, but with words, images and other related content.”

In addition, visual translations become keep-sakes and visual reminders of key events and those interesting moments shared by attendees and participants.

Workshops

Workshop Programs

Evolve to EE 01

Throughout history, the world has seen various economic eras. In the beginning commerce was created by the exchange of materials extracted from the earth. This was the Commodities Economy. It wasn’t until people began customizing and packaging commodities into small stock items called goods that the economic offer progressed. This was the next evolution of economics we now call the Goods Economy.

Once more a shift happened in the economy when these same goods were now being offered as part of services for customers in order to save time, thus the birth of the Services Economy began to grow. As all things evolve, the Services Economy would give way to a new type of economic offer, not one of acquisition of things, rather one of doing things.

Companies like Disney gave birth to the next progression of offerings, the Experience Economy. An economic shift from customers acquiring products with a focus of time well saved to engagements of time well spent. It is this era that is driving dramatic change and creating unprecedented opportunities for growth.

Now you can learn to understand and leverage this shift away from Goods and Services to Experiences.

The Experience Workshops

Experience Economy Workshop: Learning To Evolve Economic Value of Your Business in the Experience Economy. An interactive workshop on the principles and tools behind staging true Experiences. Learn More

Designing Experiences: A focused guided workshop on designing engagements for customers and patients alike. An interactive and always fun program with real world applications. Learn More

Workshops are guided by a Certified Experience Economy Expert. CELogo-Web_001

Change Mapping Workshop

Change Mapping: By leveraging the use of Graphic Facilitation and visual thinking, this workshop explores the possibilities and opportunities around change. This workshop is an hands-on interactive session designed to help individuals, small businesses and organization to visualize and map the path of change. Learn More

thINK in INK Blog

Concepts, ideas and conversations from my (th)INKing Canvas shared. Welcome.

June 22, 2017June 22, 2017

Experience Economy: Go With the Flow

There’s a lot conversation from the design world about the customer journey. Each design firm has its own version of how customers travel through the place, be it physical or digital. What many have in common is the attracting of customers. In the physical world, they label the outside environment of the place as Attract. …

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June 7, 2017June 7, 2017

Experience Economy: Primer

Originally posted on the ABA Bank Marketing site on May 15, 2017 Some may not know what the experience economy is about—or how it emerged. This article provides a primer on the concept of the experience economy. In the early years of our country, agriculture and livestock were the mainstream of commerce. This period was …

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May 31, 2017May 31, 2017

Signature Moments

Have you ever wondered if there was something more you could do to extend your brand or message? Well, there is. One opportunity that is usually overlooked is at the point of when your customers are exiting your business. Add a signature moment that adds that little punch to the engagement. As a Visual Translator, …

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