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Round out your skills with new information and hands-on practice

Executive Education Workshops

Make your Monday smarter

Join us for innovative workshops to learn and practice new skills in the classroom. Return to the office ready to apply your learning. Each workshop is unique and may only be offered once. Don’t miss your chance to experience it.

Our next workshop:

Creating Clarity with Visual Thinking

A picture is worth a thousand words, bringing focus and energy to discussions. Oftentimes, meetings are a sea of words and a waterfall of slides. Make your meetings more engaging, make concepts and ideas more memorable and lead teams or projects toward their goals.

With two interactive learning days, you will capture key ideas and organize them in a visual format —using text and drawings—to support building common meaning in meetings, training sessions or strategic off-sites. 

Workshop Details
Tuesday, November 12 and Wednesday, November 13
8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
University of St. Thomas
Minneapolis Campus
Registration: $1,100
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What is visual thinking?

Is visual thinking something you should master? Hear from program instructors Jill Greenbaum and Heather Martinez to understand how drawing and lettering can help to create alignment and common meaning.

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What will you learn?

  • Discover the primary elements of the visual language
  • Learn to hold the pen, draw clean lines, and structure your space on the flip chart
  • Create graphics and text containers/geometric shapes, objects and symbols
  • Discover the easy ways the Bikablo® method provides to draw people, roles, groups, and situations
  • Use simple and fast options to color elements and spaces to support the graphic structure
  • Learn foundational and stylistic letterforms that are legible even when written quickly
  • Develop a formula for hierarchy to support information and ways to emphasize words to highlight ideas
In the end, you will learn the hand-drawn and hand-lettered techniques needed to make your next meeting visual!

Jill Greenbaum, Ed.D.
Workshop Instructor
Heather Martinez
Workshop Instructor
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Jill Greenbaum, Ed.D.

Jill Greenbaum, is an alchemist—she works with clients to create transformational experiences. She integrates her deep knowledge of instructional design, Accelerated Learning techniques, and visuals into her suite of training programs to nurture engagement and achieve “sticky” results. Jill is the Certified Bikablo Global Trainer in the United States.

Heather Martinez

Heather Martinez is a visual practitioner and the founding Art Director and Agile Scrum Master of the Visioneering team (8 visual practitioners working to create immersive environments for innovation). When she isn’t helping form high-performing teams or graphic recording, she’s helping others feel good about their lettering as they write in meetings in front of others.

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