Portfolio

Chatted with Dr Kate Byrne on The New Way podcast

Just published a new class on Skillshare: Level Up Your Drawing: Unlock Your Skills with the Foundation Lines Method. This class is great for anyone who wants to boost their confidence in drawing, ...

A great conversation over the weekend prompted me to publish this new post on LinkedIn: 3 ways to fix that awkward first 5 minutes of online meetings - https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/3-ways-fix-awk...

I spoke at this year's Agile Australia conference, talk topic: Traps to Avoid in Agile - Lessons from Squid Game. Of course corporate culture has rubbed all the sharp edges off Agile, and diluted i...

Great fun to live-scribe another live online panel discussion for Steelcase: DeskNotes - Learning Through Inconvenience. This was an insightful, heartfelt discussion between several architects abou...

It was a pleasure to do the illustrations for Blueprint 2022, by Lucy Bernholz, Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society, Stanford University. This is the fifth year in a row I've illustrated this ...

Tons of fun speaking and drawing at the very first Visual Practitioners Africa online conference. I spoke about how to hone your listening skills by picking up on specific cues, and then how to use...

One of the online classes I run is called Better Meetings for Alignment and Decisions - it's the most popular one out of the set of four. A big part of the techniques I teach in that class has to d...

I just published a post of advice to my Earlier Self: 7 unexpected things I've learned facilitating meetings: https://bencrothers.medium.com/7-unexpected-things-ive-learned-facilitating-meetings-87...

I just published another e-book: 50 Remote-Friendly Icebreakers. This one collects the best of the vast library of icebreakers, warmups and energisers that I collect and use, in all sorts of meetin...

Just self-published my first kinda sorta serious 📖 e-book: Draw in 4! Over 100 4-Step Sketches to Boost Your Drawing Confidence. This one is like going the gym, if you want to develop your drawing ...

Absolutely stoked to publish my first book ✨ 📖 ✨: Presto Sketching: The Magic of Simple Drawing for Brilliant Product Thinking and Design., with big thanks to O'Reilly. It's for anyone in product o...

Spoke at Sydney Design Thinking Meetup, doing a fun interactive workshop with everyone called "Make Your Meetings By Design, Not By Default". There are so many factors that go into meetings that we...

Ran a fun online workshop, as part of the launch of the Butter Bash Online Community: "3 Warm-ups for Better Connection, Creativity and Collaboration". Each warm-up demonstrated how to get your onl...

Great fun speaking on a panel this week, as part of the General Assembly 2030 Movement: "Is Data Killing UX Design Instinct?". The two definitely work together; after all, instinct isn't based on n...

I love it when something comes along that 📣 speaks to something I haven't been able to articulate, and that's what Polywork is! OF COURSE I'm more than my 💼 job title. OF COURSE there are many part...