About the Author:
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
Review:
"Agerbeck's The Idea Shapers shares fresh insights from her years of strategic thinking. It's rare to find a book rich in systems that's clear and applicable right away."
Nancy Duarte
CEO of Duarte, Inc.
and best-selling author
"Once again Brandy Agerbeck provides simple, clear and highly practical guidance for anyone who aspires to excel in visual thinking and facilitation. Brandy is a master practitioner and a natural born teacher. You can't do better than this book."
Dave Gray
Founder of XPLANE
and author of Liminal Thinking
"The Idea Shapers is a wonderful, thought-provoking book for anyone who has wondered how visual thinking works. It holds terrific insights into the relationships between writing, drawing, teaching, learning, and making connections across disciplines. It's not just for artists, and not just for writers, it's for anyone who wants to challenge themselves to think in new and fresh ways."
Jennifer Farrington
President & CEO,
Chicago Children's Museum
"If, like me, you've stood with mouth agape, in awe of an impossibly, extraordinarily gifted person with the ability to visually explain and to draw pictures to record and even sort-of synthesize what other people are talking about: admit it.
You resent these people.
I did too, until I attended a workshop with Brandy Agerbeck, wherein she completely spilled the beans -- showed us every trick in the book for doing like she does.
THIS IS THAT BOOK.
The Idea Shapers is the most approachable, dishy, memorable, implementable book on drawing in support of understanding and human communication you're going to have read this much of the blurb for: why haven't you clicked "add to cart" yet??"
Dan Klyn
InformationArchitect and Co-Founder,
TheUnderstanding Group, LLC
"I have read and shared (gifted!) Brandy's first book, The Graphic Facilitator's Guide, and her new book, The Idea Shapers, is going to get the same treatment. As a visual communicator for 35years (I was Director of Information Graphics at Newsweek for a decade), I found myself taking notes on visual storytelling concepts outlined by Brandy. As a teacher, she has a wonderful voice, a straight forward and accessible manner for conveying her knowledge and skills through words and drawings."
Karl Gude
Director of Media Sandbox,
Michigan State University
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