Julian Burton: biography I am an change consultant, artist and visual facilitator, working in organisations, providing a process: Visual Dialogue, to support leaders in dialogue. I provide a visual perspective on important issues and challenges in meetings; before, during and after. My main skills are listening, synthesising and visualising concepts; developing visual symbols, metaphors and stories that create and hold a reflective space by catalysing and stimulating constructive dialogue . My work: • captur the ideas, meanings, concerns and issues expressed in meetings, reflecting back emergent themes visually, as a catalyst for further discussion • provides a visual overview of a current situation, expressing and conveying complex inter-related issues in context symbolically • engages a group’s attention and enable them to quickly grasp the main issues and focus on relevant elements • structures problems to facilitate shared sensemaking, developing novel perspectives that can open up new possibilities in meetings Recent experience Shell Financial Services: Developed a series of visual representations of a new foreign exchange trading paltform. KPMG: visualised strategic context and vision of internal change management project. Prudential Financial services: Developing a series of paintings, visual metaphors for current situation, business model and customer proposition, for a senior management workshop Child Support Agency: Visualised content of a two day senior managers conference, to help understand consequences of new reforms. NHS-Eastern region: Visualised central metaphors of series of meetings to establish an Organisational Learning programme. Each meeting diagram helped participants to reflect and discuss the developing structure of the project. Amerada-Hess Ltd: Visualised key strategic issues for series of meetings. Organised workshop on looking at new partnership from a complexity perspective. Woolwich Plc.: Developed a brand logo representing a complex set of new services and products. London School of Economics: Involved in the Complexity Research Programme providing visual metaphors, diagrams and visual aids for three research projects. Society of Organisational Learning - UK: Providing illustrations of key themes from SOL-UK meetings and workshops. Background Website design: The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition, New York. 1996 Graphic design: Fritz Grafisk Væksted, Copenhagen, Denmark; 1994-95 Artist and professional landscape painter: Bhutan, India, England, Denmark; 1987 to date. Working trips to India, Bhutan, Nepal, France, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey and Spain and 11 solo and group exhibitions at galleries in New York, London, Bhutan, India, Denmark and France. Elizabeth Greenshields Scholarship. Book Illustrator: Ministry of Education, Royal Government of Bhutan; 1984-1986; School textbook illustration, production and the pre-testing of books and teaching aids. BA (honours) Graphic Design and Scientific Illustration. Middlesex University, 1983 back