Presentation Thinking™ #171. TED Talkin’: Hayley Langsdorf on the power of doodling during meetings
Hayley Langsdorf is an artist that uses Sharpies to illustrate big ideas from board rooms and beyond. She is a self-described “live scribe” for events, meetings and conferences.
Hayley’s 2019 TED Talk, “Drawing out our collective intelligence", draws out—literally—the power of the pen. As humans, we’re all moved by story; and when visuals are added, it’s extra memorable.
Even simple figures and shapes—doodles during meetings to help illustrate what was talked about can create a more powerful record than a list of bullets.
Hayley’s talk reminds us that simple visual storytelling can help support day-to-day communications. She argues that drawing out ideas to get on the same page could help reduce over-used jargon, excess emails and even combat stifling office environments.
Business communicators, consider this your cue to get the colored pack of Sharpies.
This is an episode for: doodlers, communicators of all kinds and self described “non creatives”.
What’s in the Spice Cabinet?
Watch Hayley’s talk for yourself:
Find more of Hayley’s work
This TED talk reminded us of…
The “Marketoonist” extraordinaire, Tom Fishburne - author of Your Ad Ignored Here
Tim Pollard’s work- author of The Compelling Communicator
Wes Kao’s work on keeping people engaged
Hayley’s dream talk (according to us)
Venue? - Something hosted by Bic or Micron or Sharpie??
Walkout song? Beautiful World by Colin Hay