“Dave Gray’s Visual Frameworks are an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to think visually and metaphorically. Each image has the right level of detail to help you enter a world and then fill it with the specifics of your situation. I reference them regularly when working on my own projects and when supporting others who are giving visual structure to topics that matter.”
Doug Neill, Verbal to Visual
“Dave helped us leverage the power of visual thinking to transform complex ideas into clear, actionable insights. This gave us a powerful new tool for effective decision-making.”
Ana Luísa Lapa Durães, Head of Strategic Design, Eve
“In B2B software, customer-centric selling stories make all the difference. I call on Dave when I need to roll out a complex technology solution to a global sales team.”
Amelia Bond, CEO, St. Louis Community Foundation.
“Dave captured our company vision in a visual map and story that resonated with customers and helped us drive cross-functional alignment within the company. The process was super-fun and time-efficient, and the CEO was thrilled with the result.”
Dave captured our company vision in a visual map and story that resonated with customers and helped us drive cross-functional alignment within the company. The process was super-fun and time-efficient, and the CEO was thrilled with the result.”
Colleen Sheley, SVP Marketing, Alvaria.
“Dave captured our company vision in a visual map and story that resonated with customers and helped us drive cross-functional alignment within the company. The process was super-fun and time-efficient, and the CEO was thrilled with the result.”
Colleen Sheley, SVP Marketing, Alvaria.
“Dave captured our company vision in a visual map and story that resonated with customers and helped us drive cross-functional alignment within the company. The process was super-fun and time-efficient, and the CEO was thrilled with the result.”
Colleen Sheley, SVP Marketing, Alvaria.
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Laurie McGrath, title, company.
“Dave is a thrilling, inspiring and impactful visual thinker. He helped Knowledge Platform develop a style, characters, and capacity to use visual stories to explain complex ideas and processes. He reconstructed the narrative DNA of our team!”
Mahboob Mahmood, Founder and CEO, Knowledge Platform.
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Amelia Bond, title, company.
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Fadi Chehade, title, company
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Scott Cohen, title, company
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Laura Mainville, title, company.
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Julius Heil, CEO, Intalere.
“Dave is in his own category, an N of 1. He brought our story alive for investors who were new to Varsity. We still use Dave’s work in our new employee onboarding to simplify how we explain our mission, vision and purpose for newcomers.”
Adam Blumenfeld, CEO, Varsity Brands.
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Jeffrey Womack, title, company.
“Dave helped us translate a complicated business and associated technology stack into something easily digestible and usable for our management meetings and sales team use.
Dave is a great partner, a pleasure to work with, and delivers.”
Darren Herman, Managing Director, Bain Capital.
“Dave has an exceptional ability to rapidly absorb and depict selling stories in compellingly simple ways.”
Jonathan King, Chief Business Officer, Switch.
“Dave can help your team understand and solve your business problems faster than anyone else I know.”
Richard Black, Chief Technology Officer, Bank of England.
“Dave can help your team understand and solve your business problems faster than anyone else I know.”
Richard Black, Chief Technology Officer, Bank of England.
“Dave can help your team understand and solve your business problems faster than anyone else I know.”
Richard Black, Chief Technology Officer, Bank of England.
“Dave did an excellent job at communicating the Enterprise Architecture to the Executive Board, which in turn helped to secure funding for a Business Transformation program of over £400 million.”
Stuart Curley, Chief Technology Architect, Royal Mail Group.
Dave’s visualization process forces us to think things through, articulate, test and validate our ideas.
He helps us distill complex ideas into stories that non-technical people can understand.”
Mike Ziegler, VP of Operations, Cox Media.
Dave moved our team from argument and contention to discovery and invention.”
Mike Ziegler, VP of Operations, Cox Media.
“I’ve never seen a presenter meld words, pictures, and live-sketching so effectively and so effortlessly.”
Lou Rosenfeld, CEO, Rosenfeld Media.
“His presentations are deceptively dangerous: big, challenging ideas clothed in Dave’s down-home warmth and humor.“
Lou Rosenfeld, CEO, Rosenfeld Media.
“He is genuine and inspiring, always leaving our audience with clear and actionable ideas. Have Dave speak at your next event. Your audience will thank you.”
Saul Kaplan, Founder, Business Innovation Factory.
“Our job is to think ten to twenty years ahead. Dave helps our team generate breakthrough thinking about the future of naval operations.”
Admiral James R. Hogg, Director, Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group.
“Dave is one of my go-to speakers when I want to activate people with thought-provoking, actionable ideas.“
Jeffrey Dachis, CEO, One Health Biosensing.
“Dave is a master storyteller and captivating speaker. He uses visual concepts and illustrations to keep audiences engaged while delivering experience-driven insights. His style is unique and refreshing, a great candidate for a conference keynote.”
Jamin Hegeman, Executive Design Leader and Consultant.
“Dave’s relaxed and thoughtful style makes for accessible but inspiring talks that can bring any audience along with his narrative or line of thought.
Real insight communicated simply and in a conversational style.”
Lee Bryant, Co-founder and Director, Shift*Base.