Ole Qvist-Sorensen - Visual Collaboration: A Powerful Toolkit for Improving Meetings, Projects, and Processes

Visual Collaboration is one of the best examples I've seen of visual facilitationbalancing structure and process, skills and questions, and knowing how to get started and how to scale. All of these examples are illustrated in a captivating style that is in itself a teaching.

David Sibbet, Founder and CEO, The Grove Consultants International, Author of Visual Teams, Visual Meetings, Visual Leaders and Visual Consulting

This is an extraordinary book. It is accessible, but at the same time offers nuance and depthgood for both the novice and the experienced practitioner. It is well-suited for anyone interested in organizational change, facilitation, communication and group work. Visual collaboration has for years been an integral part of the way we teach at Kaospilot, but also one of the core skills our students learn. This is the book we have been waiting for.

Christer Windelv-Lidzlius, Principal, Kaospilot

In my work as a leader of strategic corporate governance, I am often in situations where I need to explain complex challenges. In these situations visualizing and drawing is a great tool. It invites and engages others and increases the chances of reaching a shared understanding. This book helps me develop and improve my skills at working with complex organizational challenges.

Lene Einang Flach, Project Director, Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation

Visual tools work well for managing meetings, programs, and processes in a way that promotes engagement, ownership, and dialogue. What an excellent resource for complex organizations and anyone who cares about activating the imagination and doing social change work well!

Bliss Browne, President and Founder, Imagine Chicago

I am quite impressed by how elegantly the authors present their theoretical framework and the ease with which theory is translated into practice. It is fascinating and brave to turn the hopelessly difficult word autopoiesis' into an obvious core concept for understanding social processes.

Jens Rasmussen, Professor, Danish School of Education

Collaboration is challenging and critical for virtually all companies. The authors have made it accessible and enjoyable with this marvelous book.

Sunni Brown, Best-Selling Author and Chief Human Potentialist

In a world of creative destruction and emergent creation, all organizations face the challenge of orienting and imagining the shared future we all want and need. Visualizing and sharing perspectives are critical to achieving this goal. The authors have defined and practiced state of the art' visual collaboration for decades, and in this book, they generously share the ingredients necessary for all strategy development, process planning and implementation steps for the years to come. This work will be a classic go to' source for anyone aspiring to develop shared engagement, visual insight, competence, and tools.

Tom Cummings, Executive Board and Senior Management Adviser, Author of Leadership Landscapes

I really enjoyed this book. The visual language is sound, it is conceptually clean, and the tools you get are solid and easy to use. This should be mandatory reading for anyone designing and facilitating meetings, workshops, and strategic processes in their organization.

Holger Nils Pohl, Founder, WorkVisual Institute, Author of Creating Clarity and Co-Creator of Biz4Kids

In a world overwhelming us with complexity, confusion, and speed, Visual Collaboration reminds us that the most powerful technology we have is our innate visual processing power. It is an invaluable resource for teams.

Lisa Kay Solomon, Co-Author of Moments of Impact and Design A Better Business

This book helps you embrace complexity and translate ideas and thoughts into a visual language that works across teams, processes, and cultures. It gives you a framework for making the right decisions. Faster. It's not a read-once book, but a go-to book when you need to handle change andliterallydraw your team together and create alignment or when you just want to make work more clear and fun.

Brian Kyed, CEO, Airtame

As a facilitator, what I most appreciate about this book is how the practice of visual language can start with me learning how to express both simple and complex thoughts visuallyand then I can immediately bring the skill into any meeting or workshop. As others engage and see the difference a visual approach makes, they joyfully join in.

Tatiana Glad, Co-founder and Director, Impact Hub Amsterdam

This book is structured in a very pedagogical and logical way. It is clear and easy to understand and richly illustrated. You quickly experience success with drawing. It is a unique handbook that provides many years of experience from practice in process design and visual facilitation. I highly recommend Visual Collaboration to meeting leaders, process designers, teachers and anyone interested in learning.

Lotte Dars, Associate Professor, University of Aarhus, Author of Artful Creation

Visual collaboration enables amazing new forms of collaboration and innovation in organizations. I've had the privilege of working with the authors many times, and this book gives anyone the ability to bring their unique skills and capabilities into their own work.

Ron Volpe, Global Vice President Apps Business Development, Tradeshift

This book shows how drawings and visualization increase the bandwidth of collaboration. Something we desperately need, when we work in complex situations. The book is a must-read and has become an essential part of our company toolbox.

Henrik Challis, Senior Consultant in Organization Transformation, Co-Founder, Emerging

When I first came across visual facilitation, it was a bonus if a consultant were able to draw and visualize for clients. Today it is a must. This is a very impressive book; it shows how much is possible and should be on every consultant's bookshelf!

Jacob Storch, Phd, Entrepreneur, Founder, Joint Action and Attractor

Visual Collaboration is a book I will not only read; I will use it. I want to become better at sketching, and I want to learn how to use visualizations more. A picture is worth a thousand words.

Lars Kolind, former CEO, Oticon, Board Member, Entrepreneur and Author of Unboss

As a process consultant on participatory processes and strategic conversations, I have learned that visualization promotes collective understanding and memory. Visual Collaboration gives an overview and an introduction to the use of visual tools and techniques in an educational and simple way. It speaks to different levels of experience and practice, whether you are a beginner or a more experienced user.

Monica Nissen, Process Consultant, Co-Founder, InterChange

I have followed the evolution of the methods described in Visual Collaboration since its earliest days. I am delighted to see its' core message regarding the power of making conversations visible' to support collaborative innovation and constructive change in organizations and communities being communicated in engaging and creative ways that can support both the novice and experienced practitioner. The global spread of the World Cafe approach to strategic dialogue and collective intelligence has benefited enormously from the approaches described in this important contribution to the field.