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The Marshmallow Challenge

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One of the exercises we do at executive workshops  is the Marshmallow Challenge.  This exercise is based on a TED Talk by Tom Wujec.  The participants are divided into teams of four.

Each team is given:

  • 20 sticks of spaghetti
  • 1 yard of string
  • 1 yard of tape
  • I marshmallow.

The challenge is to build the largest, free standing structure with the marshmallow on top in 18 minutes.

This exercise reveals:

1 The deep lessons of collaboration

2. Provides a shared experience

3. Provides a common languagey@creative

4. Shows the importance of prototypes

5. and as Wujec explains, Design is a contact sport

At a workshop it’s a great icebreaker and a way for participants to get to know each other.

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Keith Bendis

Keith Bendis is a graphic facilitator (graphic recorder) and illustrator who does graphic recording and illustration for companies and organizations throughout the U.S and in Europe. Keith lives in Columbia County New York, a short 2 hours from NYC and Boston.

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Dan Roam, “Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don’t Work”

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Dan Roam -Blah, Blah, Blah, What to so when words don’t work

Dan Roam – “Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don’t Work”

One of my favorite books that deals with visualizing ideas is Dan Roam’s best selling, “Blah Blah Blah: What To Do When Words Don’t Work”. I decided to illustrate it’s main themes in my studio. I emailed the finished piece to Dan and it blew him away.  I do a lot of work in my studio.  It gives me a chance to do more specific work for a client.

Link to book: https://www.amazon.com/Blah-What-When-Words-Dont/dp/1591844592

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Keith Bendis

Keith Bendis

Keith Bendis is a graphic facilitator (graphic recorder) and illustrator who does graphic recording and illustration for companies and organizations throughout the U.S and in Europe. Keith lives in Columbia County New York, a short 2 hours from NYC and Boston.

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Graphic Recording for Business Model Generation Workshop in Saudi Arabia

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It’s hard to believe that’s it’s been a  year since I worked in Saudi Arabia.  I was asked to graphic record for a Business Model Generation workshop in Medina. We were part of a week long business conference.  I was a bit apprehensive but once there we were made to feel very welcome.  I don’t think the participants had ever seen a graphic recorder before let alone a cartoonist.  In our particular conference room there was a “gender wall” dividing the room in half,  men on one side and women on the other.  However, during the breaks the women wanted to take photos with me and my work.

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Keith Bendis is a graphic facilitator (graphic recorder) and illustrator who does graphic recording and illustration for companies and organizations throughout the U.S and in Europe. Keith lives in Columbia County New York, a short 2 hours from NYC and Boston.

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Alex Osterwalder , author of Business Model Canvas Graphic Recording for panel discussion

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2017-09-Alex-Osterwalder. Graphic recording for author book business panel discussion

2017-09-Alex-Osterwalder. Graphic recording for author book business panel discussion

In Sept Alex Osterwalder , the author of Business Model Canvas, asked me to illustrate some of the main ideas in the book in one illustration. He used this for a presentation at a business panel discussion.

Alex’s website: http://alexosterwalder.com/

Business Model Canvas: https://strategyzer.com/canvas/business-model-canvas

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Keith Bendis

Keith Bendis is a graphic facilitator (graphic recorder) and illustrator who does graphic recording and illustration for companies and organizations throughout the U.S and in Europe. Keith lives in Columbia County New York, a short 2 hours from NYC and Boston.

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Graphic Recording for Non Profit Domestic Violence Organizations

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In July I recorded a meeting of two non profits that were merging to create a new organization that would become the largest provider of domestic violence shelters in New York City.  The two  organizations were the Center Against Domestic Violence (CADV) and the Urban Resource Institute (URI). Participants were asked to write on a large white board the positive characteristics of each organization.  I took the information on the whiteboards and created an illustration showing what the separate organizations would bring to the merger and how that would help create a new more innovative organization.

Links:

www.cadvny.org/

http://urinyc.org/

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Keith Bendis

Keith Bendis

Keith Bendis is a graphic facilitator (graphic recorder) and illustrator who does graphic recording and illustration for companies and organizations throughout the U.S and in Europe. Keith lives in Columbia County New York, a short 2 hours from NYC and Boston.

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Graphic Recording: Empowerment Summit

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Graphic Recording by Keith Bendis.

Empowerment Summit Story Sharing Video.

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Keith Bendis

Keith Bendis is a graphic facilitator (graphic recorder) and illustrator who does graphic recording and illustration for companies and organizations throughout the U.S and in Europe. Keith lives in Columbia County New York, a short 2 hours from NYC and Boston.

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An Illustrated History of Writing and Drawing Instruments

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Graphic Recording by Keith Bendis (8)

An Illustrated History of Writing and Drawing Instruments by Keith Bendis

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Keith Bendis

Keith Bendis is a graphic facilitator (graphic recorder) and illustrator who does graphic recording and illustration for companies and organizations throughout the U.S and in Europe. Keith lives in Columbia County New York, a short 2 hours from NYC and Boston.

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Leading at the Pace of Change

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Leading at the Pace of Change, E4’s Envisioned Future Blueprint

Graphic Recording by Keith Bendis

Graphic Recording by Keith Bendis

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Keith Bendis

Keith Bendis is a graphic facilitator (graphic recorder) and illustrator who does graphic recording and illustration for companies and organizations throughout the U.S and in Europe. Keith lives in Columbia County New York, a short 2 hours from NYC and Boston.

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Keith Bendis Illustrations: Children’s Books

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Keith Bendis has illustrated books including; “The Fan Man” by William Kotzwinkel and “Casey at the Bat” for Workman Publishers. Most recently he has illustrated several chidlren’s books for Sterling Publishing, “Calvin Can’t Fly”  and it’s sequel, ”Calvin, Look Out!”. Keith lives on an old farm in Ancram, New York in Columbia County a short two hours from NYC.

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Keith Bendis

Keith Bendis is a graphic facilitator (graphic recorder) and illustrator who does graphic recording and illustration for companies and organizations throughout the U.S and in Europe. Keith lives in Columbia County New York, a short 2 hours from NYC and Boston.

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Keith Bendis Editorial Illustrations

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As a freelance cartoonist/illustrator, Keith’s unique brand of humorous illustration has been seen in most of America’s leading magazines and newspapers including; Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, Business Week, Fortune, The Wall St Journal, Smithsonian, Vanity Fair and many others. He illustrated William Safire’s “On Language” column in the New York Times Magazine for 8 years and his own feature, “New York Sketchbook” appeared in the Sunday Daily News.

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Keith Bendis

Keith Bendis is a graphic facilitator (graphic recorder) and illustrator who does graphic recording and illustration for companies and organizations throughout the U.S and in Europe. Keith lives in Columbia County New York, a short 2 hours from NYC and Boston.

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