The hidden language of your doodles

  The scribbles you casually create while daydreaming can reveal fascinating insights about your personality. There is no right or wrong in your doodles. 🔳 Structured squares: Squares, grids, and…

Ideas take flight

Welcome to my world of visual thinking, where ideas take flight. As a visual thinking partner, I help entrepreneurs and executives bring clarity and innovation into their businesses. With a…

Visual thinking for finding a tech niche

Branding Café for Visionaries!

Attention visionary entrepreneurs! Are you struggling to clarify your message, because your head is overflowing with ideas? Chances are that you are a visual thinker, and you need to see…

Create a business that feels alive

. . . . . . .   I sat down with Tad Hargrave and sketched his wonderful “Marketing for Hippies” membership.   Short clip:       And here…

World Changer

  How is your business changing the world? Is it not? Maybe you just don’t see your impact. What’s “normal” for you could have a tremendous effect on your clients,…

A Children’s Coach and the philosophical problem

  What is wrong with the world? Find your WHY Here is a walkthough of the Business storyboard I did with Soumya Karkera, a coach for children and parents. She wanted…

How are you already changing the world?

Yesterday, I sent out “homework”  to my subscribers, asking them to list eight things about how you change the world. I promised that I would share my own list. The…

Channeling the muse

I experience various modes of creativity. The first is “free-flowing”. When painting, I connect with “the Muse” and watch what emerges on my canvas. It feels wonderful and energizing, like…

Jellyfish with style

I wanted to illustrate “ideas are like jellyfish, floating in your brain.   Because these days I’m playing a lot with Midjourney, I had it make jellyfish.   It takes…

A beautiful patchwork

These days I’m engrossed in the various AI tools popping up. It started with the image generator Midjourney. Then I discovered how to use ChatGPT (just talk to it!) The…

Dronten in Lejre – alive and kicking

I made a logo and poster design for a children culture project in Lejre commune. You can see the bird in action on their website – click on the various…

The magic of Midjourney

I started playing with Midjourney! It is mindblowing. I’m not any good in controlling the outcome, but it was SO much fun. I couldn’t stop anymore. It is like a…

Branding Café Clip

Claudia Heimer was in the hot seat of my last Branding CafĂ© sketching session. She helps board members of companies to take steps toward a B-Corp certification You can read…

What is the shape of your business?

What is the shape of your business? Visual business models are like a shorthand for communicating what you do. But… your business doesn’t have one, but many shapes! You can……

Whiteboard videos

Are whiteboard videos still a thing? When I saw the first RSA Animate videos a few years ago, I was impressed and inspired, and I also wanted to do something…

Organizing stuff

Searching, finding or creating something new? Creating lots of content is great. Having a whole library of texts and drawings that you can repurpose is such a time saver! In…

Show your (business-)flow!

Can you explain what you do in your business? Sometimes you have to give a comprehensive overview of everything you help your clients with. Or, you have to explain what…

Wear your message

Here is an exercise to test your messaging: Would you wear it on a T-Shirt?

Pricing-first strategy

Pricing-first strategy I’m sure you have heard about the Pareto principle. Focus on the 20% of your business that brings 80% of your income. My drawing is based on the book:…