Brandy Agerbeck

About Brandy Agerbeck

Struggling to organize your thoughts? Seeking innovative tools to solve complex problems? Looking for the visual synthesizer to map out your ideas for you? Let\'s tackle your challenges with paper and pen. As a graphic facilitator, I can draw *for* you. But when I teach your team concrete and instantly usable visual thinking skills, we truly transform your organization\'s ways of working. PASTDrawing for youI\'m still available to map your next event.🟣 Vast and varied client list 27 years of experience🟢 Available as thought partner, integrating visual best practices into your event or workshop design 🟡 Visual Synthesis is my strength—see your ideas truly organized🟠 No live event? Let\'s co-create your process map, communication piece, or conceptual model Published our field\'s \"bible,\" The Graphic Facilitator\'s Guide in 2012 CURRENTTeaching you to draw for yourselfWith Visual thinking you can: Crush overwhelm Organize your thoughts Map complexity Listen at an entirely new level🧲 Engage your audience as a speaker or teacher Boost collaboration and alignment Solve old problems in new waysThis is NOT an innate gift or mysterious talent. Visual thinking is an absolutely LEARNABLE life skill.My 2013 TEDx talk, Shape Your Thinking, put my teaching mission into motion. The 5 steps you\'ll see in my video, became the sections of the 2016 book, The Idea Shapers. Visual thinking\'s complexity is broken down into 24 learnable techniques called \"idea shapers.\" A never-leaves-my-desk reference for smarties in all kinds of professional roles.Launching my 2018 online course, The Agerbeck Method, made these 24 tools even more accessible. This step-by-step system has changed the minds and lives of learners from over 40 countries. FUTUREWe shift culture towards the unstoppable combo of creativity and critical thinkingOn your own— Begin your path to mastery today in The Agerbeck Method. For your team—Ask for my menu of hands-on workshops on visual thinking, facilitation, and listening skills. My favorite, First Rate Flipcharts, will change meeting culture in your organization. Learn in-person or virtually. Yes, virtual can be hands-on. I can also recommend a perfect venue here in Chicago.At your event—Want participants engaged and focus, leaving with new skills? Hire me to speak as the \"sage on the stage\" seamlessly moving into a \"guide on the side\" facilitator.Let\'s start a conversation about your unique challenges and goals, and how we can tackle them with visual thinking.

Experience

1. Teacher

   Loosetooth.Com

   Jan 2012 — Present

   I teach in many modalities, both online and in person. My signature, smalligroup workshop is The Lab, a three-day immersion into visual thinking through the lens of graphic facilitation. My core online course is The Agerbeck Method, your 90-day visual thinking transformation. If you\'re looking to learn graphic facilitation, I offer two comprehensive courses. Graphic Facilitator Confidential dives deep into the business side of the work, while Gold Star Graphic Facilitation focuses on the role, skills, mindset, and responsibilities of the graphic facilitator.All my online courses can be found at: workshops:

Education

• Grinnell College

  BA, Art

  1992 — 1996

Skills

• Illustration
• Strategy
• Personal Development
• Teaching
• Entrepreneurship
• Visual Arts
• Publishing
• Art
• Training
• Organizational Effectiveness
• Social Media
• Graphic Recording
• Organizational Development
• Change Management
• Workshop Facilitation
• Drawing
• Emotional Intelligence
• Retreats
• Facilitators
• Group Dynamics
• Strategic Planning
• Leadership Development
• Exhibit Design
• Concept Development
• Writing
• Design Workshops
• Public Speaking
• Visual Communication
• Graphic Facilitation
• Design Thinking
• Leadership
• Experience Design
• Illustrator
• Visual Thinking
• Facilitation