Aaron is a visual scribe and digital storyteller. We talked about Art as Innovation. How visual storytelling can be applied to solve complex wicked problems. And what's possible in Alberta if we can create, through visual facilitation, an environment where everyone is heard and understood.

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Wunmi Adekanmbi immigrated 10 years ago from Nigeria where she was a post-secondary instructor and researcher, and led a youth empowerment non profit. Wunmi is passionate about people, information and solutions - in that order. She is a strategist and a connector. Her greatest motivation is creating coherent value streams across organizational functional units using a systems thinking approach. She strives to inspire confidence and intentionality in leadership, equip teams to execute from a big picture perspective, and harness community inter-dependencies. Wunmi is the Organizer and host of Immigrant Techies Alberta, a tech enthusiast group for skilled immigrants who are in or are interested in pivoting to tech careers and startups.

Aaron Russell is a Graphic Recorder, Media Producer and Designer. Graphic recorders are visual scribes who listen and take notes at meetings. They tell visual stories. 

Aaron graduated from The Alberta University of the Arts in 2004 with a Degree in Visual Communication. He works as a Media Producer for Alberta Health Services and also as a freelance Graphic Recorder. Aaron especially enjoys illustrating at events involving addictions and mental health. He also enjoys drawing for Indigenous Communities and the Energy Sector.

You can find him at: http://ConferenceDoodles.com

He is a member of the I.F.V.P (International Forum of Visual Practitioners) 
https://ifvp.org/users/aaron-russell

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Show Quotes:

"Creating for its own sake is as important as creating to solve problems."

"Art makes complex information more digestible, more memorable, more fun."

"...ever since then, I've thought of saying, you know what fonts look like wood cut, or do you know what actually looks like wood cut? Woodcut."

"it's a blissful process to be captured by that creative process. You don't care if you've eaten, you don't care if you've slept, you just become possessed to execute. But the energy associated with that is absolutely intoxicating."

Credits...

This Episode Sponsored By: Community Now! Magazine

Episode Music: Tony Del Degan

Creator & Producer: Al Del Degan