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HOW TO THINK LIKE A NEW YORKER CARTOONIST—AND WHY
 

How to think like a New Yorker cartoonist—AND WHY

Clarity and Connection

That’s what we sell. We can supply it directly, or teach you how to create it yourself. Clarity of purpose or messaging, connection with your customers or team members. These are things you can find with pencil, paper, and play. Like a New Yorker cartoonist does.

You don’t have to be funny or able to draw. You only have to think like a cartoonist—to be better at the things you do. We’ll show you how.

Let us tailor a workshop to introduce you to the basic skills or even to tackle specific problems. Or you can have Coffee with Cartoonists at a conference or off-site, to sit, talk, and surface issues that let you know what in hell is happening. Or ease into the do-it-yourself approach by having a Cartoonist on the Wall at your conference or meeting, to show you how much more there is to see from the cartoonist’s perspective. Call Jonathan now to get started.

 
 
 
 

Seriously.

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

You can do that safely, on paper. 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—rather, they 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. Twenty-first century science has shone enough light on how, that we could combine it with our professional experience to reverse engineer practical methods for non-cartoonists to generate their own insights in their own respective fields.

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 be artists or smart-alecks. We’ll teach you how to think—visually, meaningfully, playfully. Like smart-aleck artists. You will be able to do it quietly at your desk, or on the whiteboard with your team. To anyone passing by, it will look like you are working—because you are! You’re finding a new way to see—and share what you find in a way that others can feel.

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

 
 

The Cartoonists

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

 

cartoon thinking Workshops—for Innovation, Compliance, & DEI

 
 
 

COFFEE WITH CARTOONISTS

 
 
 

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