The Idea Shapers: the power of putting your thinking into your own hands

Long to feel less overwhelmed? Wish for clarity in your decision making? Looking for lucidity in your thinking? Seeking confidence in your communication? The simple solution is at your fingertips. Paper and pen. In this guide, Brandy Agerbeck reveals drawing as your best thinking tool, making visual thinking attainable and enjoyable through a set of twenty-four Idea Shapers. Each concept combines fine art and facilitation to turn abstract ideas into concrete drawing that help you do great things.

Brandy Agerbeck writes, speaks and teaches on the power of drawing as your best thinking tool. She celebrates twenty years as a graphic facilitator, mapping out her clients' complex conversations in live, large-scale drawings. Based on this work, she wrote The Graphic Facilitator's Guide: How to use your listening, thinking and drawing skills to make meaning. Brandy follows this much-loved volume with a book for every visual thinker, The Idea Shapers: The power of putting your thinking in your own hands. Cultural analyst Patricia Martin calls it, "A new alphabet for the visual age."

Blending her experience in speaking, teaching and facilitating, Brandy delivers interactive, customized keynotes and workshops. In her engaging and productive sessions, she demystifies drawing to develop everyone's thinking skills so your participants can learn more easily, reduce overwhelm, communicate clearly and think critically. Her signature workshop is The Lab, a three-day immersion into visual thinking, offered in Chicago and abroad. You can see her in action in her 2013 TEDxWindyCity talk, "Shape Your Thinking."

Brandy lives in Chicago with a delightful fella and a usually-delightful cat. She delights in traveling, quilting and watching spy movies