Welcome to
Visual Collaboration Academy

Curated courses for the Maersk employee

Learn to run meetings, projects and processes that are more engaging, efficient, and impactful.

Visual Thinker

Make a visible difference in any meeting by mastering how to use simple visual techniques to spice up your presentations and storytelling.

Visual Facilitator

Learn to design and facilitate purpose-driven, impactful meetings, and workshops so your peers will be eager to participate.

Online Facilitator 

Leap into the new world of work by learning how to use MIRO to design and run remote and hybrid meetings that are both effective and fun.

Remote Visual Collaboration Master

Take a learning journey into a new way of working. Learn to apply new skills and tools for designing and facilitating moments of impact in any remote or hybrid setting.
- You learn with peers.
- You become a certified Visual Collaborator.
- You get a lifelong membership to an international network of professionals.

What participants say

Michele Seymour
Leadership Development Consultant
Balance Matters - United Kingdom

Thank you for your careful, patient and enthusiastic guidance through each step. The ability to visually design a team programme was great and thought provoking. I learnt how to think creatively and visually about getting teams connected in a more vibrant and effective way as it shortcuts many discussions seeing symbolically what is being discussed. 
Juergen Kleinstuber
Head of Strategic-, and Performance Programs
SAP - 
Germany

In this course I have learned how to design and facilitate inspiring and engaging online meetings and workshops. With the methods and tools presented in "Visual Collaboration" emotions, interaction and creativity is added to online meetings. Participants are able to see the thinking and ideas of each other. I am now using this method for preparing and running workshops and meetings about learning, sales, project set up, idea-creation and process definition.
Dimitra Dimitrakopoulou
Visiting Assistant Professor
MIT Media Lab USA 

What makes this course great is a combination of the facilitator, the content, the visuals, the pacing of the learning, the overall experience! I learnt a new framework of engaging visually with my topic of interest and making remote but also in-person meetings.

How to get started 

  1. Select the course that fits your needs
  2. Sign up for Visual Collaboration Academy
  3. Pay your course 
  4. Receive Teams invite, MIRO link, and pre-assignment
  5. Arrive at session  

Included in all courses

Case work + peer coaching

We work, test, present, and receive feedback and coaching from each other. 

Visual Tools

We use powerful visual tools to ensure effective learning and skill building. 

Learning Space

We use predesigned learning spaces to host and harvest our learnings.  

Certificate

We use certification as documentation for your new found capabilities. 

What you need to attend

Equipment

If you have a big screen with a good camera and sound, you are all set for a great learning experience.

Teams

We use Teams. Before the course you will receive an invite with ID and password. 

MIRO

We use MIRO, our shared visual collaboration space. Brush up your skills with these MIRO tutorials before the course.

Time

Set aside time to prepare, get the tech working, and arrive. Courses often have pre-assignments. 

Reach out to Maersk Learning responsible if you want to know more about the partnership between Maersk and Visual Collaboration Academy. 

Get started with a chapter of the 
Visual Collaboration book 

The book "Visual Collaboration" is the foundation for all courses in the academy. It is translated into eight languages. Get the introduction chapter in English for free and be super prepared for your class.
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Winner at the Independent Press Awards for best design.

Bronze medal winner at the Axiom Business Book Awards.

Rated ☆☆☆☆☆ by leading Danish newspaper Børsen.

What the readers say

Nancy Duarte
CEO at Duarte.com and best-selling author Slideology
This book gives you the building blocks for meetings, processes or projects. It works as a new language for collaboration. In a world where we need tools and approaches to tackle our complex world this book can help you come up with solutions that work.
Olga Svyrydenko
Business Strategy Lead GlobalTraining Partner Program  Microsoft
In my current role at Microsoft I don’t have the luxury of working with people face to face, so we do a lot of joint visualizations on digital whiteboards while connecting team members from all parts of the world. Visual Collaboration provided an extremely helpful method for clarifying goals, working out joint plans and shared responsibilities, and avoiding cultural or language barriers in our teams
Donato Carparelli
Head Global Product Innovation, Schindler Elevator Ltd
Visual Collaboration is an inspiring guide for anyone who is interested in a more visual approach to organizing and hosting meetings and workshops. The book walks the reader step-by-step from discovering a new visual language to enabling others to work more visually. As a reader one doesn’t only find helpful hands-on tips but also inspirational templates which can be easily customized for any kind of meeting and workshop

Meet your instructors

Loa Baastrup
Co-author of Visual Collaboration
Loa designs and facilitates large scale strategy processes and has trained more than 1500 people in Visual Collaboration Loa is co-author of Visual Collaboration.
Jacob Ackey Wolf
Designer, illustrator
Jacob is a designer and illustrator with a master's in Play Design from DSKD. He can turn any idea into engaging visuals that resonate.
Ole Qvist-Sørensen
Co-author of Visual Collaboration
Ole has 20+ years of international experience in assisting leadership teams in cultivating a more visual way of working.
Ole is co-author of Visual Collaboration.‍
Bettina Gulya
Process facilitator
Bettina is a highly experienced UX designer and trainer. She is a master at getting anyone back on track if devices tease or tools freeze. 

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Visual Thinker 1

Make a visible difference any meeting by mastering how to use simple visual techniques to spice up your presentations and storytelling.

  • Four hours live online course
  • Highly interactive
  • Instant feedback
  • Immediate implementation
  • Maximum of 24 participants
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What we will cover in this course

Why draw

Drawing sets you free since you are not bound to visuals, icons, and templates that already exist.

Everybody can draw

You will learn to create drawings you never thought possible with simple tips, tricks, and tools. 

Your professional visual language

We can create a visual language tailored directly to your area of expertise. 

Visual Facilitator 1

Learn to design and facilitate purpose-driven and impactful meetings & workshops. Your peers will be eager to participate.

  • Four hours live online course
  • Highly interactive
  • Instant feedback
  • Immediate implementation
  • Maximum of 15 participants
Write your awesome label here.

What we will cover in this course

Why visuals work

Drawing together is a systematic approach to managing complexity.

Design for engagement

Achieve good results by preparing your process in one big picture. 

How to create impact

Real change happens when you know what the journey looks like and where to start it.

Digital Facilitator 1

Leap into the new world of work by learning how to use MIRO to design and run remote and hybrid meetings that are both effective and fun.

  • Four hours live online course
  • Highly interactive
  • Instant feedback
  • Immediate implementation
  • Maximum of 15 participants
Write your awesome label here.

What we will cover in this program

New ways of working

Serious life hacks to reach the full potential of your online meetings and workshops.

Tech facilitation

For the pro tech facilitator, technology is just tools. The meeting content is the focus.

Virtual visualization

How to cultivate active participation and collaboration by using simple visualization.

Remote Visual Collaboration Master

Take a learning journey into a new way of working. Learn to apply new skills and tools for designing and facilitating moments of impact in any remote or hybrid setting. You learn with peers. You become a certified Visual Collaborator. You get a lifelong membership to an international network of professionals.  

  • 7 Sessions of three hours live workshops
  • Highly interactive
  • Instant feedback
  • Immediate implementation
  • Maximum of 12 participants
Write your awesome label here.

What we will cover in this program

Working with complexity

When people draw together, they learn together, and with a world in constant change, the ability to learn together is a necessity for ongoing success

Strengthening collaboration

When a team draws its goals, desires, and objectives, it becomes smarter and more focused.

Reaching shared clarity

Shared synthesis, overviews, and clarity are vital in an increasingly complex world.

Your digital learning space:

Explore the Masterclass digital learning space here (MIRO board) 

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