On courage with Alice Edy
In this episode we are talking to a talented graphic scribe, an illustrator and visual facilitator Alice Edy about courage. Alice dared greatly and ended up scribing for Brene Brown herself. She tells us how overcoming fear has helped her …
Kate Baxter on using the graphic skills to live your dream
Interview with Kate Baxter – a recognised expert in the global community of visual practitioners and an amazing graphic facilitator with passion for all things digital – about everything you need to succeed as a graphic and digital scribe.
Helping yourself and others through the power of pen by Sarah Firth
Sarah Firth is an award-winning comic artist and writer based in Melbourne. Since 2011, she has run a successful small business, offering graphic recording and facilitation, animation and event design. With the mission to help clients clarify, align, resolve, connect and communicate – through powerful visual modelling, storytelling and strategic mapping.
Yuliya and Marcel about our new 60 day coaching program
An interview with Visual Friends co-founder, Marcel van Hove and one of our visual coaches, Yuliya Schamrel about a new and exciting program for our students - The 60 Days of Coaching. If you ever wanted to take visualisation skills …
Melaine D’Cruze about Visualising Learning for Kids
Melaine D'Cruze has been a visual thinker all her life. Through her school years and her career, she always took visual notes and doodled to focus and to remember ideas. She didn't know that there was actually a professional field …
Let’s letter together with Heather Martinez in Melbourne
A couple of words about Heather Martinez. Heather likes to live in the mountain valley of Durango, Colorado. Heather is a visual practitioner and also an ‘Agile guy’ like me or Danny. She spends a lot of her time running virtual lettering …
Dean Meyers – Be Brave and Iterate!
Do you remember the time when Apple was founded or maybe have seen the movie ‘Pirates of Silicon Valley’? Until I met Dean, I never had met a person who worked at Apple at that time when the first Macintosh …
Sunni Brown – Believe in Yourself and Design Your Life (Part 2 of 2)
This is the second part of the interview with Sunni Brown record on the 18th of September 2018: In the first part of this episode, you learnt a lot about Sunnis Brown‘s life and her early years as an entrepreneur …
Sunni Brown – Believe in Yourself and Design Your Life (Part 1 of 2)
The beginning In this new episode, you will learn a lot about Sunnis Brown’s life and her early years as an entrepreneur from strangling to make a living to be one of the top speaker and best-selling author in the …
Jill Greenbaum about how to coach teenagers to find the right college
Imagine the following: In order to make the most of the opportunity to attend a visual practitioner conference for the first time – you write a book, bring it along and sell it there. This might sound a bit crazy …
How to spark the visual revolution inside your company
You probably agree with me when I say you can’t change people! Even if you have the best idea on the planet not everyone will stop working in the old way and jump onto the new idea immediately. If that …
John Hibble about how to become an awesome facilitator
I think I have to confess something to you guys. April this year I recorded an amazing podcast with John Hibble about his venture, The Facilitation Starter. John Hibble is an experienced facilitator with more than 10 years in the …
Pivot your career and become a visual thinker!
Martin grew up and lived most of his life in Sydney. He has a strong background in IT and worked in several technical roles before he moved into team coaching. Martin’s bikablo® story is very similar to mine. Using visual …
Introduction into Symbolic Thinking (Part 2/2)
This is the second part of the interview with Antonio Meza. In the first part we talk about Antonio’s life story and his career as an NLP (neurolingoistic programming) trainer and coach. We looked at the combination of NLP and …
Combination of Graphic Facilitation with NLP (Part 1/2)
Antonio Meza is born in Mexico and have been drawing and sketching his whole live. He started his career as a cartoonist animating stick figures between 2 key frames across the screen. He moved to Paris where he studied communication …
Visualise your work and increase your happiness
A couple of weeks ago I had the chance to speak to Jim Benson in Melbourne. We met in a hotel restaurant and talked about why visualisation of invisible knowledge work is so powerful and why it can increase the …
Welcome to the bikablo® USA Tour 2017
Carola Keitel and Frank Wesseler are an amazing team. They met through the bikablo® Akademie in Cologne and became a couple. Carola always had the idea of travelling the US and maybe working there one day.my adp card So when …
Introduction into Executive Coaching
Jaya Machet has seen the world: She grew up in Mumbai, India and moved with her family to Switzerland when she was a teenager. She studied German and French before she joined Nokia Treasury in Geneva. More than 10 years …
How to create your own sketchnote video?
Todays guest is Matthew Magain from sketchvideos.com.au. Matthew is a good friend of mine and I’ve been following his journey for quite a while. After Matthew gives us a bit of background of where he came from and how he started …
The Evolution of Product Management with Nick Coster from Brainmates
Today I talk to Nick Coster. Nick founded Brainmates together with his wife Adrienne Tan more then 12 year ago. Brainmates is one of those companies who are not very big but very professional. Their special field is product management. …
Visual Friends Radio – Natalie Nelson about the Future of Education
Today I have the honour to bring to you Natalie Nelson. Natalie is the principal at Ashburton primary school. Her school never received much money since the 1920’s and were therefore entitled for a redevelopment. Natalie’s school received a big …
Visual Friends Radio – Introduction to Design Thinking by Patrick Sharbaugh
Today I have the honour to have Patrick Sharbaugh with me. Patrick works for the LUMA institute, a training provider that enables companies and individuals to be more creative. He teaches design thinking and in this interview he gives us …
bikablo Radio with Keith Greaves about the Beautiful World of Big Group Facilitation
A couple of weeks ago I was running the first bikablo® visual facilitation garage. This advanced workshop has been around in Europe for a while and now we start this advanced class for people who have participated in the fundamentals class …
Visual Friends Radio Insight – How to Keep Practising After Attending The Visual Facilitation Training
In this episode I talk about the first day back at work where you need to find a way to apply the new skills in your day to day job. We talk about positive psychology and how you can motivate …
Christiane Anderson from AGL about the use of bikablo® in a business transformation
I don’t know about you but I see many companies who put a lot of whiteboards inside their offices and I am not sure yet that they know how to make the best use of them. Today’s guest is Christiane …
Visual Friends Radio Insight – How A Community Of Practise Helps You To Grow Your Visual Facilitation Skills
Attending the bikablo® visual facilitation training is only 50% of the deal. You need to apply it and keep practising on your day-to-day job. One of the best ways to improve your visual facilitation skills is by learning from each …
Visual Friends Radio Insight – Helping others with a pen and improve your company culture
Why are we hesitating to ask for help? Helping others is natural to us but asking for help is sometimes difficult to many. The reason behind lays in the way we grew up, how we were raised and not at …
David Landry about Agile Transformations using bikablo® Drawing Technique
What is an agile transformation? I would like to ask you a question! Can you image you walk into a company and tell everyone to change the way they work? Maybe even question their values? Or find a new vision …
Visual Friends Radio – Shaping Ideas With Brandy Agerbeck from Loosetooth.com
This episode is a great personal career story of Brandy Agerbeck from loosetooth.com. Brandy gives an insight into her career, including how she started as a knowledge worker with the MG Taylor model and how she went out on her …
Visual Friends Radio Insights – How to solve conflicts and improve the company culture
In the Visual Friends Radio Insights, I would like to share with you some experiences I have in my daily life working as an agile coach and visual facilitator. My name is Marcel van Hove and I hope you enjoy …
Visual Friends Radio – Much More to Explore in the World of Visualisation with Martin Haussmann
Solving problems through drawing This episode looks beyond the horizont: We start with a comprehensive introduction into the world of visualisation and go down the rabbit hole into group facilitation and conflict solving through drawing together. When we come out …
Visual Friends Radio – How Nicole Brand became a Visual Leader
Summary In this episode Nicole Brand shares her story how she became a visual leader: I had the fortune to work with Nicole Brand for the last 18 month on a daily bases. I saw her progressing from not feeling confident …