Visual Leaders

What Visual Meetings did for meetings and Visual Teams did forteams, this book does for leaders Visual Leaders explores how leaders can support visioningand strategy formation, planning and management, andorganizationchange through the application of visual meeting andvisual team methodologies organization wide—literally"trans-forming" communications and people's sense of what ispossible. It describes seven essential tools for visualleaders—mental models, visual meetings, graphic templates,decision theaters, roadmaps, Storymaps, and virtualvisuals—and examples of methods for implementation throughoutan organization. Written for all levels of leadership in organizations, fromdepartment heads through directors, heads of strategic businessunits, and "C" level executives Explores how communications has become interactive and graphicand how these tools can be used to shape direction and align peoplefor implementation Brings tools, methods and frameworks to life with stories ofreal organizations modeling these practices Visual Leaders answers the question of how designthinking and visual literacy can help to orient leaders to thecomplexity of contemporary organizations in the private,non-profit, and public sectors.