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HOW TO THINK LIKE A NEW YORKER CARTOONIST—AND WHY
 

How to think like a New Yorker cartoonist—AND WHY

The Drawing Board shows business and organizational teams how to draw on their own experience and expertise to visualize change. And act on it in ways that make a visible difference.

Because change is hard, whether you’re talking culture change—ethics, DEI, ESG, team building—or innovating processes, products, and messaging. It requires not only finding where to look, but often the courage to look at things we’d rather not.

Cartoonists do this all the time. It’s our job. We look at discomfort in our own lives, climate catastrophe, or market meltdowns, all to find a new perspective that offers a glimmer of light. We use what psychologists call reframing. We move the problem to, say, a desert island or a psychiatrist’s couch, in order to bypass the fear that paralyzes thinking, and open ourselves to empathy and the attending insight into what in hell is happening.

You don’t need to be a great artist or razor wit to do it too. Let us design a workshop or other cartoon-based program to show you how.

 
 
 
 

Seriously.

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The more serious the problem that lands on your desk, the more seriously you need to play with it.

Yes, play. That’s the only way to tease out the hidden variables, masked agendas, and surprising perspectives that can reconfigure your thinking. I mean, if you’re really serious about it.

We have helped teams at the Red Cross Climate Centre, Microsoft, World Bank, the Conference Board, Ethisphere, the United Nations Climate Conference, World Food Programme, Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and Korn Ferry grapple with many of the world’s most serious problems. We did it with pencil, paper, and play.

When you’re ready to get serious, give us a call. You’ll like what unfolds.

 
 

Show, Don't Tell

 
 

There is no formula for insight.

But there is a discipline.

There must be! New Yorker cartoons have consistently sparked insights for nearly a century. It can’t be by accident. If modern science could only show us how, then perhaps we could reverse engineer the art to develop a practical approach for non-cartoonists to generate their own insights in their respective fields.

Long story short, it has, and we have. We teach managers to be better managers, humanitarians to be better humanitarians, economists to be better economists, all by thinking like cartoonists.

To be clear, we won’t teach you how to draw. We’ll teach you how to think—visually, meaningfully, playfully. You can do it quietly at your desk, or on the whiteboard with your team. You’ll find it so much easier to discover a new vision—and share it—when you can literally see it. And feel it.

To see it and feel it for yourself, click here, email Jonathan , or call (847) 343-2204 today.

 
 

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Learn more about our other creative services:

  • original CARTOON CREATION

  • Creative consulting

  • COFFEE WITH CARTOONISTS

  • keynotes

  • premier visual note-taking

  • live cartooning for events

  • and anything else you can imagine

 

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