Salla Lehtipuu works doing live sketchnoting and visual recording in events, seminars, workshops and strategy processes. She also gives workshops and speeches about how to apply doodling and visual thinking to your daily life and work. Salla Lehtipuu was one of the first people to make whiteboard animation in Finland.
She has worked with companies and events like Bank of Finland, Slush, Posti and Salesforce, etc. Salla is interested in facilitating learning with the help of arts. Her aim is to bring more visual tools to people to enable better learning and understanding. Her background comes from studies of business and entrepreneurship (BBA) and arts. Visual facilitation benefits from the knowledge of both fields. Visual facilitation is a combination of texts, colors, drawings and shapes to enable better learning and common understanding in bigger groups.
What is the idea of your speech?
My intention is to ponder about our general drawing tendencies and specially about the presumptions (or rather lack of) we have about our skills, the purposes for our drawings and its appreciation. I want to present concrete examples to people and empower them to start drawing more.
Why do you want to present this speech?
I want to enable different methods of learning and drawing in a practical way. I want to give people the tools to create their own visual vocabulary and hope they would learn to appreciate their own drawings. I want people to question why written text is valued more than pictures as a method of learning, even though visual images sink in better.
Who should hear this?
Those who consider themselves very straightforward thinking, logical and analytical. Those who feel like they don’t dare or can’t draw. Those who don’t consider themselves creative. Let me prove you wrong!
How do you want to affect your listeners?
I want to inspire them and encourage them to grab a pencil and start drawing. I want to awaken creativity, create a movement and give ideas that can be put into practice right away.
