Wonder Woman in Business, Heather Willems

Susan Freeman

January 12, 2020

Communications, Marketing, Podcasts, Story Telling

Heather Willems

Founder of Two Line Studios

Heather Willems: Facilitating Clarity Through Creativity™: Author. Speaker. Visual Storyteller.

Heather Willems is the Co-Author of Draw Your Big Idea and visual strategist. She has made it her life work to help others gain Clarity Through Creativity™. As an artist, graphic facilitator, and mentor, Heather helps top executives operate more efficiently using visuals as a tool for unlocking solutions to their toughest challenges. Building on her experience as co-founder of ImageThink, she mentors entrepreneurs scaling to $1MM, moderates leadership masterminds, and leads accountability groups for female business owners.

After 15 years of facilitating breakthroughs with clients, she helps organizations work more purposefully by activating their vision, mission, and values. She visualizes big ideas for the world's most influential thought leaders and companies, including Disney, AOL, FedEx, Google, Lego, and NASA. Her work has been featured on TED, The Today Show, MSNBC, Inc., Forbes, Mashable, and The Wall Street Journal.

Whether she’s leading workshops or speaking about the power of visual storytelling in both her personal life and in organizations, she has a passion for making connections. She’s spoken at New York Times Small Business Summit, Conference for Women, Columbia University, SXSW, Comic-con, PTTOW! and more.

Heather lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Visuals engage. Stories captivate.

Together, they offer Visual Storytelling, one of the most powerful facilitation tools in business leadership today.

Visual Strategy creates clarity, communication, and change. During Clarity Through Creativity™ sessions, teams draw their thoughts in iterative collaborative exercises to make ideas tangible, clarify the complex, and inspire swift action. The results: breakthrough results and visual metaphors that map the journey to achieve your goal.

Beyond a facilitation tool, Visual Strategy offers a new kind of communication strategy: compelling, shareable, complete. It turns dreams into reality.

TwoLine is your source.

***Two Line Studios: Clarity Through Creativity***

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Book Cover.jpg — ***Draw Your Big Idea***

In this increasingly visual age, images speak louder than words. Studies show that images also help people think. Visual note-taking such as doodling increases memory retention rates by nearly 30 percent, and opens creative pathways, strengthens focus, and inspires self-expression. Driven by these groundbreaking findings, entrepreneurs Nora Herting and Heather Willems founded ImageThink, a graphic facilitation firm that has helped an elite roster of clients—from Google to Pepsi to NASA—visualize their ideas and transform their creative processes using simple drawing techniques that anyone can master. *Draw Your Big Idea* presents their sought-after guidance and more than 150 drawing exercises tailored to brainstorming, refining, and executing ideas in the home, design studio, and office. With this workbook, readers will learn to beat creative block—for good!

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Contact Heather:

Heather Willems
Cell: 646-488-8295
Heather@heatherwillems.com
HeatherWillems.com

Draw Your Big Idea: The Ultimate Creativity Tool for Turning Thoughts Into Action and Dreams Into Reality

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Susan Freeman

September 30, 2019

Podcasts, Women Leaders, Communications

Wonder Woman in Business, Alissa Carpenter

Susan Freeman

September 30, 2019

Podcasts, Women Leaders, Communications

Alissa Carpenter

Everything’s Not OK and That’s OK

MULTI-GENERATIONAL WORKPLACE EXPERT | COMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANT | SPEAKER

Thank you for stopping by! I started my business in 2015 as a side hustle while working full time at the University of Pennsylvania (Wharton School) and took it full time in 2017. Throughout my career at different universities, I noticed that students would be optimistic when talking with their friends about their professional future, last exam, or how they felt overall. But when I met with them one-on-one, everything wasn’t OK and they were open and honest about how they were really feeling. These conversations led to my business name… Everything’s Not OK and That’s OK.

We tend to hide behind our feelings and failures and try to put on a brave face. But, life isn’t always OK. Whether you’re a college student, young professional, business owner, manager, or executive; it’s important to be honest with ourselves and others about where we are and where we might want to go. True transparency and honesty make us stronger as individuals, teams and organizations.

I am passionate about helping others and their organizations take their communication to the next level. When we admit that we’re not OK, we open ourselves up to learn and experience things that we might not otherwise have done.

While I started the business as a way to help young professionals transition into their careers and find ways to stand out and get noticed; I now work directly with organizations and their leaders. I collaborate with them to bridge communication barriers between teams, generations, geography, and job functions; providing my clients with a strategic communication plan. I use my certifications (StrengthsFinder, MBTI and Strong Interest Inventory) across industries including: broadcasting, medical, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, industrial, education and government.

I feel fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with non-profits to Fortune 500 companies and get to the bottom of pain points with employees. I facilitate spaces for them to come together and learn from one another. It’s during these training sessions and speaking engagements that I continue to bring to light that employees of all levels and backgrounds are looking to do good work, develop within their roles, and enhance the organization’s mission. I also provide strategies to communicate their needs, wants, and expectations in ways that each individual can understand and implement.

My expertise has been featured in media outlets such as Forbes, CNN, ABC, CBS, NPR, Moneyish and more. I come to every training and speaking engagement with an upbeat personality and true passion for wanting the audience and their organizations to get to the next level. I try to bring a fresh perspective that drives positive change both at the event and after.

I would love to get to know you and your organization’s needs. Sign up for a free discovery call to identify how we can work together to take you and your organization to the next level.