All you need to know about Visual Thinking

Ole Qvist-Sorensen

Current Residence: , Denmark Title: Organization: Bigger Picture Website: www.biggerpicture.dk/

In 2003 Ole founded Bigger Picture - a Scandinavian based consulting company. Bigger Picture provides visual design, learning and dialogue tools, training and consulting services enabling ongoing sustainable organisational and personal change.

Ole's mission is to accelerate the constructive use of visual language, thinking, communication and facilitation in all sectors of society. Currently Ole spend a large part of his time devoted to bringing the visual thinking, language and skills into projects and processes dealing with the rising complex challenges caused by climate change.

Presently Ole is working with change projects in Copenhagen Climate Council, Novozymes (R&D), Vestas (P&O) and Shell (Complex Challenges Group). For the last 5 years Ole has worked with organizations such as Shell, ABN Amro Bank, The Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs, WWF, the De Beers Group, the Danish Institute for Human Rights and Novo Nordisk.

The foundation for Ole's work is a strong pedagogical framework (Luhmann, Bateson, Maturana & Varela) for team- and organisational learning. From this framework Ole has designed and implemented small, medium and large scale participatory processes. He has developed more than 200 visual dialogue tools and over the last 3 years delivered leadership development trainings. The method he uses speeds up the co-creation of meaning; it furthers dialogue, enables engaging leadership and supports collective understanding, learning and action. The principles behind the framework, methods and tools used are inspirational in their design and easy to understand and use in multicultural settings.

Ole is a process consultant and graphic facilitator. He holds a masters degree in Learning and Business Studies from Roskilde University and a degree from the creative entrepreneurship education The Kaospilots, where he also today sits on the pedagogical council. Ole has been actively involved in Pioneers of Change since 1998 and has since 2005 also been actively involved in the International Forum of Visual Practitioners.