Visual Collaboration Masterclass

Embark on a journey into a new way of working. Strenghten your thinking, communication, and collaboration by learning skills and tools for designing and facilitating engaging moments of impact.

Walk away better equipped to tackle complexity,  reach clarity, and create solutions. Faster. Together. 

  • 7 x 3½ hour online live sessions
  • Highly interactive
  • Direct and personal feedback
  • Immediate implementation
  • Small cohort of 6-12 participants
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Special spring 2025 rate: 2.695 €

Is your
collaboration style narrow-band or broadband?


This is the longest text you will find here. 
Everyting else is more visuals.
But please read it carefully. 
It is important. 

When people work together, online or offline, most communication is based on words, spoken or written. Speaking, writing and reading are examples of narrow-band communication at a speed of about 30-50 bits per second. It takes minutes or even hours to explain a complex concept or system, and to react to it by asking questions or expressing opinions.

Visual communication is wide-band. A picture actually does say more than a thousand words, and a complex concept can be visualised in a way that allows people to grasp it within seconds. This is because the bandwidth of visual communication may be tens, hundreds or even thousands times wider than narrow-band speaking, writing or reading.

Turning collaboration in your organisation from narrow-band to wide-band has potential to both speed up your work, to make your work much more creative, and much more fun. Fortunately that does not come easily. Otherwise everyone would do it, and you would have no competitive edge.

Visual collaboration must be learned, just like a foreign language.

You may choose to go on using narrow-band collaboration, but imagine that your competitors were working several times faster than you, plus several times more creatively. You will be left behind.

If you choose to turn your organisation's collaboration from narrow-band to wide-band, let's talk. This Masterclass might be for you.

Designed to for business critical skills 

This Masterclass is designed to also cultivate these business critical skills: 

Apply a digital mindset

  • Embrace and master new technology and digital tools, improve digital knowledge, skills, and mindset.
  • Collaborate with colleagues to share best practices and tips for utilizing digital tools effectively
  • Be at the forefront of exploring and strategically applying new digital trends.

Lead a complex organization

  • Drive and facilitate change in a professional and effective way, while making bold, clear and timely choices to minimize trade-offs and complexity.
  • Asks the right questions to accurately analyze situations.
  • Acquire insights and input from multiple and diverse sources when solving problems.

Drive vision and purpose

  • Paint compelling pictures of any purpose and strategy in such a way it motivates others to action and clarifies the ‘why’ for everyone.
  • Articulate visions in ways that everyone can engage in, relate to and share.
  • Create organization-wide energy and optimism for the future.

Collaborate with stakeholders

  • Form teams with appropriate and diverse mix of styles, perspectives, and experience.
  • Establish common objectives and a shared mindset.
  • Create a feeling of belonging and strong team morale.
  • Foster open dialogue and collaboration among the team.

Communicate effectively

  • Develop and deliver messages that convey a clear understanding of the unique needs of different audiences.
  • Be effective in a variety of communication settings: one-on-one, small and large groups, or among diverse styles and position levels. 
  • Attentively listens to others and adjust messaging to fit the audience.
  • Encourage open expression of diverse ideas and opinions.

Cultivate Innovation

  • Come up with and communicate useful ideas that are new, better, or unique.
  • Bring in diverse thinking and varied approaches to promote and nurture innovation.
  • Explore new ways of looking at problems.
  • Find and champion the best creative ideas.
  • Engage and build excitement in others for new ideas and exploring creative options.

Build effective diverse teams

  • Form teams with appropriate and diverse mix of styles, perspectives, and experience.
  • Establish common objectives and a shared mindset.
  • Create a feeling of belonging and strong team morale.
  • Foster open dialogue and collaboration among the team.

Course Learning Space

 We use this "Course Ecosystem" as visual learning space to support the learning before, during and after the Masterclass. 

Course Overview

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. This kind of transparency not only help participants connect with one another in a different way, it is also much easier to remember later. 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 / University of Zurich, Switzerland. 

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.

What you need to attend

Equipment

You need a camera, a good microphone and preferably two screens. We also recommend using mouse.

Teams

We run the courses using Teams. Before each session you receive an invite with ID and password. 

Miro

We use the digital whiteboard Miro in all our courses. If you don't have, we provide guest access. 

Pen & Paper

We often use simple sketching to prototype and communicate ideas. No prior skills required.

Time

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

Discover how to...

Handle complexity by drawing, collecting, and connecting.
Strengthen collaboration through creating transparent processes and robust decisions.
Reach shared clarity through social synthesis and co-creating visual maps and overviews. 
Work in a more visual way in virtual meetings (what setup, skills and tools).
Setup, prepare and facilitate face to face, online  and hybrid processes.
Visually think through any moment of impact and increase its value for yourself and all participants.
Create a visual language and templates specific for your online context.

Course features

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. 

Peer coaching

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

Meet your instructors

Loa Baastrup

Co-author of Visual Collaboration and 
Strategy Consultant  
Loa designs and facilitates large-scale strategy processes where the many need to be engaged or the few need to reach clarity or agreement around crucial decisions.

Ole Qvist-Sørensen

Co-author of Visual Collaboration and
Strategy Consultant  
Ole is assisting global leadership teams in reaching their mission by building the foundation for how to literally work with a big-picture mindset and cultivating a more visual way of working.

Need an introduction before you sign up?

Schedule a free 15 minute exploration call

We are only one call away to ensure that your needs find the right match. Book a call, and let's talk about interests, formats, and possibilities for your organization. We can share use cases, some tangible outcomes you can expect from our different courses, and the skills and tools you and your team learn. 

Join one of our free webinars

Our free bi-weekly Visual Wednesdays give you a sneak peek into the method of Visual Collaboration. It is one hour to meet the instructors, potential co-learners, and ask questions before signing up. 

What's included in the price?

Before
  • Questionaire
  • Miro self test
  • Access to "Learning Arena" Miro boards
During 
  • 7 x 3½ hours engaging online modules 
  • Maximum 12 participants
  • 2-3 trainers 
  • E-books for each module 
  • 25 course templates in Miro
After
  • Continued access to Academy & "Learning Arena"  Miro board
  • Video tutorials for drawing icons and templates
  • Course certificate
  • Possibility of purchase of additional individual and team coaching

Who is it for?

Are you running remote and hybrid meetings, workshops or classes, and need ways to work smarter, engage more and reach results faster? 

Then our Masterclass is for you.

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What will you learn?

Get a sneak peak at what we will cover in the course and how case work and assignments plays a part. 

How do you participate?

We will be using the best of what technology has to offer to create an engaging learning experience. Learn more about how in this video. 
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Get started with a chapter of our award-winning 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 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
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