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Download a year's worth of https://www.leadershipactionlist.com/ (weekly action steps to improve your leadership) for FREE! Nora Herting is a pioneer of visual strategy. She is passionate about expanding peoples' definition of creativity and believes the best way to meet the demands of business today is to take a visual approach that blends strategic thinking and creative expression. She leads a compelling conversation around the power of visual thinking as a catalyst for personal and organizational change. As a sought-after speaker and thought leader, Nora has inspired global audiences with her creative keynotes at Cannes Lions, SXSW Interactive, WBENC (the women's business enterprise national council). CONNECT WITH NORA: Website: https://www.imagethink.net/ (https://www.imagethink.net/) Twitter: https://twitter.com/ImageThink (https://twitter.com/ImageThink) CONNECT WITH JOSH LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/joshuafriedeman (https://linkedin.com/in/joshuafriedeman) Twitter: https://twitter.com/joshuafriedeman (https://twitter.com/joshuafriedeman) Email: josh@friedemanleadership.com Want a FREE list of weekly action steps to improve your leadership? Download the https://www.leadershipactionlist.com/ (Leadership Action List) TODAY! Mentioned in this episode: Subscribe to Business Bitcoinization https://www.lifeasleadership.com/bizbit-subscribe (Subscribe on your favorite podcast app) Business Bitcoinization Trailer https://www.lifeasleadership.com/bizbit-trailer (Listen to the trailer)

As the CEO of Imagine Think, Nora Herting helps expand the definition of creativity in the business world. As the author of the best-selling book, “Draw Your Big Idea,” Nora has inspired thousands to think visually to access their own creativity. Nora breaks down the myth that drawing is only for the creatives, and showcases real examples of how leaders can add another dimension to their ideas (and execution effectiveness)  through simple doodles. Listen in to  unlock and inspire others in new ways beyond the written word!   Key Takeaways [3:15] Nora shares insight about visual leadership. [5:00] Paintings have been a form of communication for thousands of years. [7:10] When we use our brain, we don't just use the right brain or the left brain hemispheres while doing a task, we use the entire brain. [9:10] If you or your team is stuck somewhere, try drawing a picture! [9:15] Nora explains how leaders can empower their staff to embrace their artistic side more effectively. [14:45] Jim shares an example of how powerful visuals are in a presentation to bring home the core message. [20:10] An important skill to have is to patiently wait for people to finish and to know when they've finished their point. [21:55] Nora shares the difference between having a liberal arts degree vs. an MBA. [25:35] Instead of looking within your industry and what the competition is doing, look elsewhere. Look at politics, cultural events, or other industries not related to you for inspiration. [28:05] Creatives and implementers tend to clash with one another, but Jim talks about the book Loonshots and how you can blend these two groups together for collaboration. [34:10] Nora offers resources on the types of visual tools leaders and teams can use. [35:55] Jim and Jan admit that their handwriting is horrible. It's hard to multitask when talking and writing. [37:00] If you have terrible handwriting, Nora offers a quick tip on how to fix this. [39:45] Listener challenge: Ask your team to draw out the description of their role and what they do every day.   Quotable Quotes “If you're stuck on a problem, try solving that problem visually.” “We are wired to think in pictures and we've been doing it as a species for so long.” “The business world has a real fascination with creativity, but it mystifies business leaders.” “Artists are looking outside for inspiration all the time. They're not just looking at what people in their field are doing but they're pulling things from all over, like science, politics, and cultural events.”   Resources Mentioned Sponsored by: Darley.com Imagethink.net Nora on Linkedin Nora on Instagram Grab Nora's book, Draw Your Big Idea: The Ultimate Creativity Tool for Turning Thoughts Into Action and Dreams Into Reality Think About 4u Conference Theartofvision.com Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries, by Safi Bahcall Jamboard.google.com

This episode of Ask The Expert was originally recorded live on June 30th, 2021   How many times have you said that you were “too busy” to do something like make a monthly budget, clean out your attic, or attend a yoga class? Don't worry; we do it too, and that's why this month's guest is Founder and CEO of Highly Organized Woman, Carrie Collins. It's all about getting your day-to-day life organized to manage most if not all situations that come your way. This might be writing careful notes and ticking items off a checklist, but Carrie also provides alternatives to fit different lifestyles and budgets for the individual.      To see Nora's entire conversation with Carrie Collins or see our Visual Strategist's capture, go to ImageThink.net/events If you would like to learn more about Carrie's work at Highly Organized Woman, go to HighlyOrganized.com This session was recorded on LinkedIn Live, and questions were submitted through the chat and emailed to ImageThink at ask@imagethink.net  Are you ready to captivate attendees and elevate your virtual meetings? Go to imagethink.net/ contact so we can start helping you picture your big ideas. 

Ben & Jay welcome in a new year with Nora Herting, CEO and co-founder of ImageThink, world's leading visual strategy firm.  Nora is author of "Draw Your Big Idea" and a frequent keynote speaker.  Hear Nora share her insights on:Founding a firm that uses the tools of graphic facilitation, visual theory and design thinkingThe neuroscience behind the effectiveness of visual techniquesHow organizations can solve problems and develop strategy using visual techniquesHow your team can bring visual techniques into your work today in simple waysNora's podcast Ask the Experts!See Nora's photography hereAll Things Twitter:ImageThinkA Sherpa's Guide to InnovationBen TingeyJay GerhartSupport the show (https://healthpodcastnetwork.com/)

This episode of Ask The Expert was originally recorded live on May 26th, 2021  At what point does the “new normal” become normal? Are you going back to the office five days a week, or is it only certain days? Who will decide which days (if any) people or teams will need to come into a traditional office?   We have so many questions, and we are delighted to welcome Co-Founder and CEO of SNP Communications, Maureen Taylor, to help us think about the answers. Based on the pillars of service, accountability, and curiosity, Maureen and SNP Communications help their clients hone their outbound content, improve communication, and scale their missions through creative service. Maureen talks about how she helps clients create content that'll be interesting for their audiences, making more human connections in the virtual world, and share details about her long-term love affair with Aristotle.   To see Nora's entire conversation with Maureen Taylor or to see our visual strategist's capture, go to ImageThink.net/events If you would like to connect with Maureen and her team at SNP, go to snpnet.com This session was recorded on LinkedIn Live, and questions were submitted through the chat and emailed to ImageThink at ask@imagethink.net  Are you ready to captivate attendees and elevate your virtual meetings? Go to imagethink.net/contact so we can start helping you picture your big ideas. 

This episode of Ask The Expert was originally recorded live on April 7th, 2021  How did the ballpoint pen transform the deodorant industry? This month's guest is Dan Seewald, an innovator, Professor, and moderator for business leaders. Dan takes us through how finding a metaphor for your business challenge might help you solve it. Nora also talks with Dan about the impact lockdown has had on innovation, how to inspire innovation in the minds of others, and the commodification of ideas.   To see Nora's entire conversation with Dan Seewald or to see our Visual Strategist's capture, go to ImageThink.net/events If you would like to connect with Dan and Deliberate Innovation, follow him at deliberateinnovation.net This session was recorded on LinkedIn Live, and questions were submitted through the chat and emailed to ImageThink at ask@imagethink.net  Are you ready to captivate attendees and elevate your virtual meetings? Go to imagethink.net/ contact so we can start helping you picture your big ideas. 

This episode of Ask The Expert was originally recorded live on October 15th, 2020  How has your relationship with the physical space around you changed since the pandemic started? Did you have to convert a closet into a makeshift office or set up shop at the kitchen table because it has the best natural lighting? This month's guest is Dimitrius Lynch, Architect, Founder, and Principal of LYNES, whose mission reads that the space we occupy should be designed to make us better people. Nora talks with Dimitrius about creating a flexible space that serves multiple purposes, the realities of minimalism, and the misconceptions of what an architect can do.   To see Nora's entire conversation with Dimitrius Lynch or to see our Visual Strategist's capture, go to ImageThink.net/events  If you're interested in learning more about Dimitrius' work, please follow him at houseoflynes.com or listen to the Spaces podcast This session was recorded on LinkedIn Live, and questions were submitted through the chat and emailed to ImageThink at ask@imagethink.net Are you ready to captivate attendees and elevate your virtual meetings? Go to imagethink.net/ contact so we can start helping you picture your big ideas. 

This episode of Ask The Expert was originally recorded live on March 3rd, 2021 In virtual meetings, how often do you get distracted by a phone notification, an important email, or anything else that might take your attention away from the session? At ImageThink, we hear this request a lot from meeting organizers and planners, and we work tirelessly to keep everybody involved and engaged. For this month's Ask the Experts, Nora sat down with visual facilitators Mara and Sven from Visuality, who are also bombarded with requests to keep sessions on point, interesting, and engaging.  In their talk with Nora, Mara and Sven discuss how they retain audience engagement without being silly, what they've learned since the start of the pandemic, and they provide sage advice on creating interaction for the audience, which in turn, helps the speaker get a reading of the room.  To see Nora's entire conversation with Sven and Mara or to see our Visual Strategist's capture, go to ImageThink.net/events If you would like to connect with Mara and Sven from Visuality, please go to Visuality.eu This session was recorded on LinkedIn Live, and questions were submitted through the chat and emailed to ImageThink at ask@imagethink.net Are you ready to captivate attendees and elevate your virtual meetings? Go to imagethink.net/ contact so we can start helping you picture your big ideas.

This episode of Ask The Expert was originally recorded live on February 3rd, 2021  How can a leader be expected to lead others if they don't know how to lead themselves? This month, Nora sat down with Donna Lichaw, a leadership coach and facilitator who has worked with Disney, Google, and Amazon, among others. Part of being an effective leader is embracing your strengths, being mindful of your weaknesses, and unlocking your superpower.   As a former filmmaker, Donna also talks about how she helps her clients hear both sides of a story before writing an ending, find your superpower as a leader, and how leadership has changed with a remote workforce.   To see Nora's entire conversation with Donna Lichaw or to see our Visual Strategist's capture, go to ImageThink.net/events  If you're interested in her work or would like to connect with Donna, please follow her at www.donnalichaw.com. This session was recorded on Zoom, and questions were submitted on LinkedIn, through the chat, or emailed to ImageThink at ask@imagethink.net.  Are you ready to captivate attendees and elevate your virtual meetings? Go to imagethink.net/ contact so we can start helping you picture your big ideas. 

This episode of Ask The Expert was originally recorded live on June 25th, 2020  What about the human brain makes it always so intriguing to study, topical for all, and dare we think it, sexy?  This month's guest is none other than Nora's sister Dr. Megan Herting. Dr. Herting, an Assistant Professor and Director of the Herting Neuroimaging Lab at USC, chats with Nora about misconceptions about left brain/right brain dominance, how the brain interprets the spoken word versus visuals, and much more.  To see Nora's entire conversation with Dr. Megan Herting or to see our Visual Strategist's capture, go to ImageThink.net/events      If you're interested in her work or would like to connect with Dr. Herting, please follow her research at hertinglab.usc.edu.  This session was recorded on Zoom, and questions were submitted on LinkedIn, through the chat, or emailed to ImageThink at ask@imagethink.net.  Are you ready to captivate attendees and elevate your virtual meetings? Go to imagethink.net/ contact so we can start helping you picture your big ideas. 

On this week's episode of Inside Outside Innovation, we sit down with Nora Herting, Founder and CEO of ImageThink and Author of the new book, Draw Your Big Idea. Nora and I talk about the benefits of visual thinking, some of the myths surrounding art and business, and some of the exercises anyone can use to think and work more creatively using visualization tools. Let's get started.Inside Outside Innovation is the podcast to help new innovators navigate what's next. Each week, we'll give you a front row seat to what it takes to learn, grow, and thrive in today's world of accelerating change and uncertainty. Join us as we explore, engage, and experiment with the best and the brightest innovators, entrepreneurs, and pioneering businesses. It's time to get started.Interview Transcript of Nora Herting, Founder and CEO of ImageThink and Author of Draw Your Big IdeaBrian Ardinger: Welcome to another episode of Inside Outside Innovation. I'm your host, Brian Ardinger. And as always, we have another amazing guest. Today we have Nora Herting. She is Founder and CEO at the visual strategy firm ImageThink, and Author of the new book called Draw Your Big Idea: The Ultimate Creativity Tool for Turning Thoughts into Action and Dreams into Reality. Welcome to the show, Nora. Nora Herting: Hi, Brian. Great to be here. Brian Ardinger: I am so excited to have you on this show. Because I've been a big proponent, whether I'm working with startups or corporate innovation teams about using visual tools to help you think through new ideas and launch new projects and that. And when I came upon you and the stuff that you're doing in this space, I wanted to have you on the show to dig in deeper about what it all takes to make this happen.So, can you tell us a little bit about yourself? How you went from becoming an artist and a photographer to working your way to work with some of the biggest companies in the world, Google and IBM and NASA on this idea of visual strategy. Nora Herting: Basically, I had started my career off in academia as an artist, going into academia, sort of the most sure-fire fit. You get the tenure track and the health insurance and whatnot. And I was 27. Managed to get a position. And then had this terrible realization that my goal was really just a failure of imagination. That I hadn't really thought or tested what else I could do with my skill set, outside of sort of this academic world.So, I left my position, moved to New York with no job. And found myself at a division of Cap Gemini that we would call now like their design thinking solution. But this was the early 2000s. And that wasn't really a term we even used there. But it was a network of facilitators that we would put huge corporate projects through these innovative incubators for three days and tell them in three days we could get three months of work out of their team. And I learned the skill of graphic recording while I was there because they knew I, besides having a Masters, I had also for a little while been an elementary school art teacher, which was actually kind of a great qualification for this particular work. And saw the power of visuals to help business people really clarify their thinking.Get people on the same page. Sort out a lot of complexity. And in time, my first client, when we started ImageThink was NASA. And I had this real moment there where they had brought in someone to talk about the space glove. They had not been able to innovate a better space glove for several decades. They opened it up to a public contest. All these teams in turn, but it was actually one solo engineer that designed a better space glove than all of the NASA scientists in a couple of decades. And they were fascinated about how this worked, and they described this guy's process. And while I was there, I'm visualizing the story. And I realized that they're really just describing a series of iterative process.Things that are really intuitive to tinkers to artists. And that it was just this moment where I thought these things that I've learned that seems so innate to the creative process were mysteries to corporations. So that's one of the joys of ImageThink is not just using the visual tools, but really helping. Tried to demystify that for business leaders so that they can take some of those same mindsets and techniques and apply them to innovation in larger companies. Brian Ardinger: I think a lot of folks do have that misperception, that businesses over here and art is over here. What are some of the myths that you've seen of how people and innovators should be doubling down on art in the business world?Nora Herting: Great question. I love this question. You know one big myth is if you don't have the title Creative on your business card and then you don't have an opportunity to think creatively. Just don't believe that that's true. At ImageThink I think that we believe that everybody who has a job that requires complexity or problem solving has a huge creative opportunity in front of them.So that's one thing is people will think, oh, because I'm in engineering or because I'm in HR, what I don't get to be creative. I forgot how to be creative. Another one is just this narrow idea that, you know, you're only creative if you can paint or write or play the guitar. Right. So, expanding that idea to things that are more broad and then, you know, just kind of a lack of creative confidence in people, kind of around those ideas. And, you know, we have different ways of trying to break that down and expose people, show people, that they can exercise that muscle. And really, they have that opportunity every time. Brian Ardinger: Walk me through some of the benefits that you've seen firsthand about getting people unstuck or what really happens when you move into that art visual mode to tackle problems that you couldn't track before.Nora Herting: One example or one benefit of it is first off is to remember it's a very, very old technology. We've been drawing and using pictures to communicate before, you know, as a species before we had written language. You know, some of the earliest cave paintings are 30,000 BC. And they're basically instructions for hunting.So, this is something that we've been hard-wired neurologically for a long time to process things and pictures. And when you do that, you're using multiple facets of your brain, including the prefrontal cortex. I like to tell people if they want to look at a problem differently, or they want to use a different set of neurons to fire, ask people to illustrate, or at least use visuals of some aspect of it to really get people just literally to think a little bit differently. So, one way we do that is first to just have people practice on really low stakes things. We'll do something called like a visual bio. We'll ask everyone to tell us about themselves, really mundane things like their name, their role, but using only pictures to convey that.And what happens is there's a lot of laughing, people feel a little awkward. But people realize pretty quickly that there's a lot more nuance that gets conveyed when someone is illustrating, let's say their role, than just say, you know, I'm a Director of Innovation at X company. Right. So how they think about that?So that immediately gets people thinking a little bit differently, even if it's not the problem at hand and understanding that there's a lot of nuance that can be conveyed. And then it's great because you have people buying in pretty quickly to the process of working visually as they start to try to apply that to real problems that they have in business.The Ewing Marion Kauffman FoundationSponsor Voice: The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is a private, nonpartisan foundation based in Kansas City, Missouri, that seeks to build inclusive prosperity through a prepared workforce and entrepreneur-focused economic development. The Foundation uses its $3 billion in assets to change conditions, address root causes, and break down systemic barriers so that all people – regardless of race, gender, or geography – have the opportunity to achieve economic stability, mobility, and prosperity. For more  information, visit www.kauffman.org and connect with us at www.twitter.com/kauffmanfdn and www.facebook.com/kauffmanfdn.Brian Ardinger: So, let's talk about your book. It's called Draw Your Big Idea. It's got a ton of like exercises. I love it because it's very tactical. So, can you talk a little bit about the book and how it came to be and what are some of the things that the audience will get from it?Nora Herting: Yeah, so what was great about this is the publishers at Chronicle came to us and said, you know, we'd love for you to do something. What are you thinking? And I really wanted, my coauthor as well, really wanted to give somebody something that was practical. That they could use right away. So rather than writing a book, we sort of essentially drew a book. As you said, I think there's 108 visual exercises in it. A lot of them are versions of exercises that we use for our corporate clients but applied to an individual level as well. So, moving people from kind of the whole cycle of innovation, if you will, Brian. From scanning their environment, assessing the current state, thinking about all the potential ideas that could come out of a problem statement. All of these things, your walkthrough, basically in drawing exercises in the book up until the final chapter, which is you kind of moved through the Innovation process.And now you're speaking strategically, like how are you going to launch this new idea? Whether that's a new business or a new endeavor or, you know, a personal project. It builds on itself. It takes you through all those things. And for listeners out there, you can also kind of flip to one exercise and say, you know, I really need to do something around mapping my resources, you know, as a team. And there is a visual exercise for you to do for that as well as many other ones. Brian Ardinger: What do you see holds people back from this? You do see some people gravitate to it, but for the most part, like you said, there's a lot of. For whatever reason they are scared or fearful of what's going on. What holds people back and more importantly, what can you do to overcome that fear?Nora Herting: Well, I think that in our experience, like on a corporate level, when people are in the room and they see the visuals being done for them, they're very enthusiastic. They see the power of it. They appreciate it. I can pick up a pen and apply this to myself. That's maybe a little bit bigger of a jump, right? And so one of the misconceptions that we talked about is people feeling like, oh, I'm not creative.Another one is just around the skill level. People will say, I can't draw a straight line, you know, or my Kindergartner can draw better than me. I don't care. Because again, we're talking about leaders. We're talking about innovators. We're talking about communicating. Right. And I try to remind people really, it's not about the artistry, it's about what is being communicated and what the impact is.And so there's a number of exercises we kind of do to show people that we're wired to make meaning out of images. You know, I just talked about how we've been doing this for 30,000 years plus. So, your audience basically just needs a minimal viable product, right? Stick figures totally work. And so, once we give people a few exercises where they see that they see from other people's bad stick figure drawings, that they get a lot out of what the person's trying to communicate. They can start to see, you know, what it's really just about the end result, which is, am I communicating my idea. Am I aligning people to it? Is it resonating? And that you need an actually very low level of skill to do that. Brian Ardinger: Do you see particular types of tasks or particular types of projects that this works better for than others? Nora Herting: At ImageThink we have kind of created this life cycle of an idea, if you will. It's called the ImageThink method. Clients come to us at different points. You know, sometimes they come to us at the top of a project like, oh, we need to launch a whole new product or we're having an acquisition. But sometimes they come to us later when it's a little more tactical, like you say, or, you know, we need to map out the strategy. So we're able to understand from that where the client is and match different exercises to where they need to be.We've helped, you know, not just at the beginning of blue sky conversations and innovation, all the way to, how do we market this now that we have it ready to go to our client. So, what I love is that visuals can be helpful, I think, along the whole process. Wouldn't you agree? Brian Ardinger: Oh, absolutely. I mean, one of the things that I like, specifically like about the Business Model Canvas, for example, is it takes that what used to be a 90-page document of what your business idea was, and kind of visualizes it out and to nine core components and you use sticky notes and other ways to think through. And it makes it much more accessible than a spreadsheet or much more accessible than a document that, once it's in a document, people think it's the perfect thing. It's the perfect plan. But as soon as you add the visuals and that it brings out the messiness, that is the reality that you're dealing with in the real world. And that's why I like that particular type of technique.Nora Herting: Yeah. I think that that's true. And sometimes people think might be a barrier, but really often actually isn't, is we have a lot of technology clients. So, you know whether it's IT or pharmaceuticals, with a lot of complexity, right? And sometimes they think, oh, this is too detailed, or this is too scientific to be approached this way.But actually, most of the time, and you might've found this in your work, right. Or talking to other innovators, those people who are such subject matter experts sometimes have a really hard time leveling up from the level of detailed expertise they have. So that they can communicate it to a bigger audience. So, they can kind of engage the cross-functional departments or larger stakeholders that they need.That's been a real sweet spot for us because we're able to listen to those folks. To steal the big ideas from it. Understand what's going to resonate for other people. And help them simplify it into a story that's a little bit more relatable. So, I'm not sure if you've also found that to be the case when you've worked visually that sometimes the simplification is a benefit rather than a detraction. Brian Ardinger: And what I've also found is going through the process, your first map is not always the perfect map. Like, can you map it out and you draw it out and it's like, well, that's not exactly right. So you go back and modify it or change it or whatever. And that process gets you to think through what's actually going on in the world, around you, and that.So, I find it very powerful, and I appreciate you helping us think through some of this kind of stuff. One of the last questions I have is how can you build this type of visual thinking, visual strategy into your everyday practice. Whether it's at work or at home. Are there particular techniques or things to give a non-artist or person who doesn't do this on a regular basis, to build this into their normal practice?Nora Herting: Yeah, so that's a great question. You know, some things that people feel more empowered by is if they create a set of icons that they're going to use. So, you know, if you're in a particular domain, sometimes I'll have people like basically we kind of do like Business Pictionary. Which is like write out terms that you are often come across or you often need to express.And then we have everybody create, you know, the minimal viable product of how they would express that idea. And that can just be on Post-it Notes. So, you know, you might have 5 to 10 concepts that you've worked out and you're like, okay, this is the way I'm going to depict this visually. So now when you're thinking about it, and you're trying to practice, you're not inventing these as you go.And that's something that we do at ImageThink. Right? Like our team, we've been at thousands of meetings. So, if someone says the word disruption, we already have one or two go-to icons for that. We're not having to make it up on the fly as much. So, I think that that's like a good way to just start practicing that muscle. And then seeing if you can integrate that in. Another example would be the next time you run into a problem is to challenge yourself, to try to depict that problem as a visual as well. You know and see if you might not uncover some different ways of thinking about it or using a metaphor. There's a great article by this man named Dan Seewald, really great Innovation expert, who talks about using metaphor as a tool for Innovation. Like how is this problem maybe a metaphor for another problem. So, getting people to try to draw out that problem in a metaphor, I think could uncover a lot of different opportunity and be great practice as well. For More InformationBrian Ardinger: Absolutely. Well, I encourage everybody to pick up a copy of Draw Your Big Idea and get started themselves. If people want to find out more about yourself, Nora, or about the book, what's the best way to do that? Nora Herting: Sure, so you can visit our website ImageThink.net. Lots of information resources there. Draw Your Big Idea you can find on our website or on Amazon or if you make it to an in person's book bookstore. Brian Ardinger: Excellent. Well, Nora, thank you for coming on Inside Outside Innovation. I really do appreciate your time and insights into this world. And I encourage everybody to start drawing and start getting visual out there. Nora Herting: Thanks Brian. Brian Ardinger: That's it for another episode of Inside Outside Innovation. If you want to learn more about our team, our content, our services, check out InsideOutside.io or follow us on Twitter @theIOpodcast or @Ardinger. Until next time, go out and innovate.FREE INNOVATION NEWSLETTER & TOOLSGet the latest episodes of the Inside Outside Innovation podcast, in addition to thought leadership in the form of blogs, innovation resources, videos, and invitations to exclusive events. SUBSCRIBE HEREYou can also search every Inside Outside Innovation Podcast by Topic and Company.  For more innovations resources, check out IO's Innovation Article Database, Innovation Tools Database, Innovation Book Database, and Innovation Video Database.  

This episode of Ask The Expert was originally recorded live on September, 3rd, 2020  When was the last time you picked up a pen or pencil to draw something? Maybe eighth grade? On this month's episode, Nora talked with Mike Rohde, noted sketchnoter and author of “The Sketchnote Handbook” series, about the craft of capturing experiences with visuals and words combined. Experiences expressed as sketchnotes are not limited to those experienced in the office but can include a meal in a restaurant or during a church service. In his talk with Nora, Mike talks about how he started sketchnoting (without knowing the word for it), how he wrote the “The Sketchnote Handbook”, and his methods for teaching it.  To see Nora's entire conversation with Mike Rohde or to see our Visual Strategist's capture, go to ImageThink.net/events If you're interested in his work or would to connect with Mike, please follow him at rohdesign.com. This session was recorded on LinkedIn Live, and questions were submitted through the chat and emailed to ImageThink at ask@imagethink.net  Are you ready to captivate attendees and elevate your virtual meetings? Go to imagethink.net/ contact so we can start helping you picture your big ideas. 

Nora Herting, CEO and Co-founder of ImageThink, is a pioneer in using visual imagery as a method to create personal and organizational change. Nora and her entrepreneurial team work primarily with Fortune 100 companies, using a design thinking method as a catalyst to help unlock human potential.  In our conversation, Nora gives examples of how the process works and how it leads to easier facilitation of ideas and moving a company's vision forward.  Nora is an international thought leader and has presented at Cannes Lions, SXSW Interactive, WBENC, and is often featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Inc., Entrepreneur, and MSNBC. Highlights include:  ·        The neuroscience of how the brain is wired to process visual thinking. ·        How imagery can expedite forward movement and change. ·        How visual thinking can move teams from different realities to shared understanding. ·        How the ImageThink Method™ is a great diagnostic and storytelling tool for leaders to engage internal and external stakeholders. Enjoy the show! Connect with Nora: Website: https://www.imagethink.net/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nora-herting-imagethink/ Connect with Allison: Website: allisonksummers.com #tech #SAAS # business #designthinking #AI #creativesociety #teambuilding #CEO #startup #startupstory #founder #futureofwork  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coming October 8, 2021! A new podcast from visual expert, best-selling author, speaker, and founding CEO of ImageThink, Nora Herting! Ask the Expert shines a light on how the best and the brightest foster collaboration, innovation, creativity, and good leadership, all through the lens of thinking and working visually.  Each 20-minute episode is packed full of great advice, tips, and tricks learned through years of experience. Subscribe now, and don't miss an episode! Learn more at https://www.imagethink.net/podcast

Do you want to be more innovative and creative in your business and leadership? Do you doubt your own creativity? Do you want to expand your own creativity in thinking, designing and strategizing? Do you want to grow your creative confidence? Our special guest Nora Herting answers these and other questions about visual leadership, creativity and strategy. A pioneer of visual strategy, Nora Herting is passionate about expanding peoples' definition of creativity and believes the best way to meet the demands of business today is to take a visual approach that blends strategic thinking and creative expression. Nora's skill and impact with businesses, and her own entrepreneurial prowess founding ImageThink, has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fox Business, Entrepreneur and INC. She leads a compelling conversation around the power of visual thinking as a catalyst for personal and organizational change. As a sought-after speaker and thought leader, Nora has inspired global audiences with her creative keynotes at Cannes Lions, SXSW Interactive, WBENC. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights… The intersection of creativity, strategy and leadership Visualizing your ideas for greater innovation Role of visual tools in storytelling and brainstorming The importance of expanding people's definitions of creativity Understanding the life cycle of an idea Using visual activation for creativity, innovation and strategy Our hard wiring to find meaning in pictures Overcoming obstacles to explore visual creativity experiences Tools for using visuals for your brainstorming, strategy sessions and problem solving The vulnerability in using visuals in your business leadership Visual tools as a strategy to surface and discuss difficult issues Integrating visual tools and humor to enhance business conversations and creativity Growing your creative confidence Visual tools enhance the experience, engagement, enjoyment and creativity Understanding visual tools for socialization within an organization Role of visual tools with mission, vision, purpose, values and strategic plan Understanding and implementing visual leadership Resources: Nora Herting ImageThink Website Draw Your Big Idea: The Ultimate Creativity Tool for Turning Thoughts Into Action and Dreams Into Reality Book by Nora Herting The Leadership Junkies Podcast Cardivera Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A pioneer of visual strategy, Nora Herting is passionate about expanding peoples' definition of creativity. She believes the best way to meet the demands of business today is to take a visual approach that blends strategic thinking and creative expression.Nora founded a company, ImageThink, which has helped hundreds of organizations like NASA, Google, and LinkedIn use visuals as tools to help leaders communicate and collaborate around their plans.As a sought-after speaker and thought leader, Nora leads a compelling conversation around the power of visual thinking as a catalyst for personal and organizational change.  er skill and impact with businesses, and her own entrepreneurial prowess founding ImageThink, has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fox Business, Entrepreneur and INC.In this interview, Nora answers…why visuals are an effective way to communicatehow leaders can promote creativityhow an artist's background can help in businesshow to use visuals to improve communicationwhat visual leadership ishow organizations can benefit from visualsAfter the interview…download Nora's book, Draw Your Big Idea https://www.amazon.com/Draw-Your-Big-Idea-Creativity/dp/1452152926Visit ImageThink https://www.imagethink.netConnect with Nora on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/nora-herting-imagethinkLearn more about Nora on Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nora_HertingClaim Your Free Gift!We're giving away a one-year membership to the world's #1 business book summary service for leaders! Our gift will help you stay on top of the latest ideas, decide which books to read next, and engage your teams.To get your gift:Leave a rating or review on your favorite listening channel.Take a screenshot of your review.Share the screenshot on LinkedIn, and mention either “Allison Dunn” or “Deliberate Directions” and the “Deliberate Leaders Podcast”.=============Allison DunnExecutive Business CoachDeliberate Directions + Executive Business Coaching + Training Center3003 W Main Street, Suite 110, Boise ID 83702(208) 350-6551Website https://www.deliberatedirections.comLinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisondunnPodcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deliberate-leaders-podcast-with-allison-dunn/id1500464675

In this episode, Nora Herting joins us to discuss the ways visual communication impacts organizations and how storytelling can influence our mental mapping towards our goals. A pioneer of visual strategy, Nora Herting is passionate about expanding peoples' definition of creativity and believes the best way to meet the demands of business today is to take a visual approach that blends strategic thinking and creative expression. Nora's skill and impact with businesses, and her own entrepreneurial prowess founding ImageThink has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fox Business, Entrepreneur, and INC. She leads a compelling conversation around the power of visual thinking as a catalyst for personal and organizational change. As a sought-after speaker and thought leader, Nora has inspired global audiences with her creative keynotes at Cannes Lions, SXSW Interactive, WBENC Nora's first book, Draw Your Big Idea, has inspired thousands to think visually and access their own creativity. Main Takeaways: ● How Visual Thinking Helps in Collaboration and Communication ● Cultivating the Habit of Visual Planning ● How the Power Visual Thinking Refashions Organizations Quote: “How do you get from where you want to go? The desired future to where you are right now? And then that's where you start filling in what are the action steps, what are the plans, but also articulating the challenges, and you can have fun with those things.” - Nora Herting Be sure to check out full show notes at https://innovationmeetsleadership.com/resources. Connect with Nora Website: https://www.imagethink.net/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nora-herting-imagethink Twitter: https://twitter.com/ImageThink These are proven solutions to advance your leadership and innovation process. Check out our website innovationmeetsleadership.com or connect with us on Instagram or Facebook @innovationmeetsleadership Don't forget to subscribe and leave a 5-star review. Let's go transform something! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/natalie-born/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/natalie-born/support

 Visual Thinking is an old technology- think Cave paintings 30,000 BC in Altimira Spain  A pioneer of visual strategy, Nora Herting is passionate about expanding peoples' definition of creativity and believes the best way to meet the demands of business today is to take a visual approach that blends strategic thinking and creative expression. With more than a decade of experience as a facilitator, educator, and visual strategist, Nora has led transformations for some of the world's biggest brands. And with ImageThink's humble back-of-the-napkin origin 11 years ago, Nora helped evolve the nascent industry of visual strategy, growing a global multimillion-dollar business in the process. As a sought-after speaker and thought leader, Nora has inspired audiences at SXSW Interactive, WBENC, Watermark, and The Atlantic's ‘What's Next?' Summit with her creative keynotes and workshops. Featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, INC., Entrepreneur, and on MSNBC, she leads a compelling conversation around the power of visual thinking as a catalyst for personal and organizational change. Nora's best-selling book, Draw Your Big Idea, has inspired thousands to think visually and access their own creativity. Find Nora on the web: Website | LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram | Draw Your Big Idea - FREE Chapter

What can business leadership learn from a professional artist?  Turns out - a lot!At a time when we're being encouraged to ‘think outside of the box' fine art is probably as far outside of the traditional business setting as you can get.Yet it seems that occasionally  swapping Excel sheets for art supplies can give executives a totally new perspective on where their business is now, where they could be heading - and how to get there.  I'm Jane Singer and Welcome to A Seat at The Table!  Each week I sit down with leading executives, entrepreneurs, authors and innovators who share their experience, expertise and insights about the future of business.This week I had the opportunity to speak with Nora Herting, a pioneer of visual strategy.  She's CEO and Founder of ImageThink, a visual leadership company that has worked with clients ranging from pharmaceuticals like Pfizer and  Johnson & Johnson to tech giants including IBM and Google, as well as NASA and Toyota.In this episode Nora talks about the power of visual thinking as a catalyst for personal and organisational change.  She explains her unique visual approach that blends strategic thinking with creative expression.Before we get started, if you're looking to develop knitwear collections that are bursting with creativity, then SPINEXPO is the place to go.  It's the primary exhibition for yarns and knitwear.The fair is a rich resource featuring well-edited, high quality collections, as well as cutting edge technical innovation.  Not to mention outstanding  trend information that can not be found anywhere else.  You can learn more at www.spinexpo.com.  Also checkout our website.  You can find all of the previous episodes of a Seat at The Table, the show notes, news about our upcoming Master Class series and lots of other useful information.  You can find it at www.seat.fm.Now let's find out Nora helps companies discover the game-changing benefits of thinking like an artist.USEFUL LINKS:Learn more about SPINEXPO:  www.spinexpo.comFind out more about Nora Herting and ImageThink: www.imagethink.comConnect with Nora on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/nora-herting-imagethink/Visit "A Seat at The Table" website:  https://seat.fm Learn more about Current Situation in Sourcing:  www.bit.ly/current_situation

On this episode of Think Like A Founder, SNP Co-Founder & CEO Maureen Taylor speaks with Nora Herting, Founding CEO of ImageThink. They talk about cave paintings, looking while leaping, and the art of problem-solving. ImageThink is a visual strategy firm helping companies innovate through graphics and the principles of design thinking. They use a unique method based on visual theory that stimulates creativity, collaboration, and problem-solving to drive organizational transformations. Before founding ImageThink, Nora worked on a collection of 281 portraits titled Face of Brooklyn and an exhibition called Spirit, featuring photographs of cheerleaders. Since then she’s co-authored the best-selling book, Draw Your Big Idea, and created several more photographic bodies of work.Think Like A Founder is produced by SNP Communications in San Francisco, California. Learn more about the Think Like A Founder podcast and curriculum by visiting us at https://snpnet.com/tlaf/ or connect with Maureen Taylor on LinkedIn to continue the conversation there. Series Producer: Roisin HuntSound Design: Marc Ream Content and Scripting: Mike Sullivan and Jaselin DrownProduction Coordinator: Natasha ThomasThanks also to Selena Persiani-Shell, Jordan Bailey, Matt Johnson, Eli Shell, John Hughes, and Renn Vara.

Nora Herting is the founder and CEO of Image Think, a graphic recording firm based out of NYC. Nora has spent 10 years using visual mediums to unleash ideas and inspire action. In this episode you'll learn about the neuroscience behind visual communication, key concepts to help you translate your thoughts into medium, how Nora arrived at where she is now and where visual communication is going.Visit Image Think's website | https://ImageThink.netNora is the co-author of Draw Your Big Idea, the ultimate creativity tool to turn you thoughts in action | https://ImageThink.net/shopNora has a love for photography and she had a dedicated website for her work | https://NoraHerting.comListener TribeWe have our own private social network for listeners of the Unmistakable Creative podcast. You can meet other listeners, discuss episodes, and even have the opportunity to have your favorite episode re-aired on a Friday! Just visit https://unmistakablecreative.com/tribe to sign up.UNMISTAKABLE CREATIVE PRIMEWe are launching Unmistakable Creative Prime, exclusive access to all our new monthly courses, group coaching calls, live chats with former guests as well as access to a keyword search engine of our entire podcast catalogue and much, much more. To find out more, visit https://UnmistakableCreative.com/Prime See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The next collection of tales from Oredev focuses on data visualization. The first conversation is with Alastair Allan, talking about his experiences in visualizing the GPS tracking data stored by every iPhone 4. While it was generally known that the iPhone kept a record of every GPS location and WiFi connection, it was not until Alasdair's visualization application let anyone (especially reporters) see on a map exactly what was in their own phone that the story became a sensation. Next, a conversation with Jon Dahl about minimalist programming and it's impact on the readability of code - a different, yet still important type of visualization. Finally the show ends with a conversation with Nora Herting and Heather Willems of ImageThink. ImageThink was at Oredev to create, in real time, graphic visualizations of the keynotes and conference sessions. While not technical specialists themselves, Nora and Heather talk about how really listening to lectures and conversations about technology provides cues for what is important in the visualizations. Visualizations have power!Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/net-rocks/donations