Todd Cherches - VisuaLeadership: Leveraging the Power of Visual Thinking in Leadership and in Life

Advance Praise for
Todd Cherches and VisuaLeadership

Have you added visual communication to your leadership toolbox? According to Todd Cherches, if you havent, youre missing out on a powerful tool to capture attention, aid comprehension, and enable your team members to retain the information you need them to use. Packed with examples, VisuaLeadership will help you develop this skill so that you can become a better communicator, innovator, and leader.

Daniel H. Pink , author of When and Drive

The most effective communicators and leaders use the power of story to influence and inspire action. In VisuaLeadership , Cherches demonstrates how every role can express their ideas through the use of visual imagery and visual language. This book will help anyone discover how to become a visual leader.

Nancy Duarte , CEO and bestselling author

I always say that what got you herewont get you there. To help you get there, executive coach Todd Cherches, in his wonderful new book, VisuaLeadership , demonstrates how we can all leverage the power of visual thinking to envisionand to achievea more successful future.

Marshall Goldsmith , the worlds #1
Leadership Thinker and Executive Coach

One of the greatest challenges that leaders face is simplifying complexityto crystallize their strategy and insights in ways that people can understand and remember. Todd Cherches has been a pioneer in using visual techniques to capture ideas, and VisuaLeadership is an invaluable playbook to help leaders make their messages stick.

Adam Bryant , Managing Director, Merryck & Co.,
and author of The Corner Office , and Quick and Nimble

As a designer, its all about using visual thinking to create innovative solutions. In VisuaLeadership , Todd Cherches expertly applies this basic concept to the world of leadership to help us envisionand to designa better future.

Ayse Birsel , author of Design the Life You Love

What Susan Cain did for introverts, Todd Cherches does for anyone who thinks in pictures. And thats most of us. VisuaLeadership opens up a world of communication that many of us avoid and very few of us understand. After reading this insightful and entertaining book, you cannot help but instantly become a better communicator and influencer.

Peter Bregman , CEO of Bregman Partners,
and author of Leading with Emotional Courage

With VisuaLeadership , Todd has hit the trifecta of what makes a truly great business book: a big idea, supported by real-world experiences and stories, with provocative and fun techniques to help the reader bring these ideas into action. Wow! I challenge any reader to not get at least two dozen new and original leadership ideas they can start implementing immediately!

Bryan Mattimore , Chief Idea Guy, Growth Engine Innovation Agency,
and author of 21 Days to a Big Idea

Todd Cherches is a legitimate Doodle Revolutionary. In this engaging and illuminating book, he skillfully explores how anyone can draw on the power of pictures to more effectively solve problems, amplify insights, innovate, communicate, and lead. VisuaLeadership conclusively shows that visually-literate leaders will have a competitive advantage in the future of work.

Sunni Brown , Founder of Sunni Brown Ink, and The Center for Deep Self Design, and best-selling author of
The Doodle Revolution

This book is a great example of Platos dictum that learning is remembering what you already know. So yes, we already know that a picture is worth a thousand wordsbut Todd gives us a way to really learn what that means and, more importantly, to put it into practice. Anyone who communicates for a livingand thats pretty much everyonewill find useful nuggets in VisuaLeadership and some of us will probably find entire gold mines. What a great book!

Ron Ashkenas is an executive leadership consultant and coach whose books include The Harvard Business Review Leaders Handbook , and Simply Effective

VisuaLeadership does what few leadership books can do: it helps us see our way to a better way to lead. Compelling, engaging, and thoughtful, Cherchess book will help leaders where they often need it most: communicating a compelling and fun vision for their organizations.

Jerry Colonna , CEO, Reboot,
and author of Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up

Todd Cherchess book puts into context the meaning behind the idea that a picture paints a thousand words. VisuaLeadership is a meaningful departure from the business world of briefs, PowerPoint presentations, and reports. All who implement the principles from this terrific book will benefit from stronger communication and presentation skills that will lead to a greater ability to innovate, influence, motivate, and sell their ideas.

Seth Merrin , CEO, Liquidnet,
and author of The Power of Positive Destruction

With inflation, a visual image is now worth 10,000 words and climbing. Whatever the number, this book vividly demonstrates visual literacy is the glue that holds all literacy together and produces a literate leader.

Steven Heller , Co-Chair School of Visual Arts (SVA)
MFA Designer as Entrepreneur program

Whether you aspire to be a leader, or inadvertently have leadership thrust upon you, one needs a planas passion can only take you so far. In this entertaining and engaging book, Todd Cherches presents his approach to leading called VisuaLeadershipthe ability to make visible to oneself and to others the vision you seek to bring to life. With wit, storytelling, metaphor, pictures, and science, he outlines a path to becoming a successful leader, providing you with both a visual roadmap and the navigation tools you need to obtain the career you want. This important book is a must read.

Dr. Ronald Ruden MD, Ph.D., and author of
The Craving Brain , and When the Past is Always Present

In an increasingly visual world, the most successful influencers and leaders will be those who can leverage the power of imagery. In this must-read book, master storyteller Todd Cherches paints a colorful portrait of visual leadership by entering into a dialog with his readers and unleashing their imagination. Through his many simple, yet powerful and memorable images, anecdotes, and examples, Cherches skillfully enables us to see, observe, and impact human interactions through a new lens.

Negar Farakish , Ed.D., Executive Director of Academic Affairs
and Clinical Assistant Professor, NYU School of Professional
Studies/Division of Programs in Business

Simply groundbreaking. How would you communicate with your team if none of you could speak the same language? In VisuaLeadership , Todd Cherches shows us how its done. With wit and wisdom, along with creative visuals, baseball, and Seinfeld references, and other fun and pleasant surprises, the author is a master storyteller who exposes the missing key that unknowingly motivates us all: a compelling vision. Get a pen and a set of highlighters, because this is not a book you readbut one you participate in. As I was, you will be hooked from the very first page.

Brad Szollose , author of Liquid Leadership ,
and host of Awakened Nation

Is leadership in the eyes of the beholder or are there fundamental truths about leading with the viewer in mind? Todd Cherchess engaging and entertaining book helps to find the answer.

Anna A. Tavis , Ph.D., Clinical Associate Professor and Academic Director,
NYU School of Professional Studies/Division of Programs in Business,
Human Capital Management program

Todd Cherches will jolt your leadership brand. My work and communication have been uprootedin an excellent wayby his visual concepts and techniques. The various tools, tips, and methods are now close at hand for me as VisuaLeadership sets a new standard for innovative leadership.