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<!--Generated by Squarespace Site Server v5.9.1 (http://www.squarespace.com/) on Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:30:03 GMT--><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><title>Alphachimp Studio Team</title><subtitle>People</subtitle><id>http://www.alphachimp.com/people/</id><link rel="alternate" type="application/xhtml+xml" href="http://www.alphachimp.com/people/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://www.alphachimp.com/people/atom.xml"/><updated>2009-08-13T19:20:05Z</updated><generator uri="http://www.squarespace.com/" version="Squarespace Site Server v5.9.1 (http://www.squarespace.com/)">Squarespace</generator><entry><title>Sunni Brown</title><category term="Graphic Facilitators"/><category term="Texas"/><id>http://www.alphachimp.com/people/sunni-brown.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.alphachimp.com/people/sunni-brown.html"/><author><name>Peter Durand</name></author><published>2009-08-13T18:24:44Z</published><updated>2009-08-13T18:24:44Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[GRAPHIC FACILITATION | AUSTIN, TX - Sunni Brown, M.P.A., is a trainer, facilitator and expert in information design. And this energetic Texan is all over the graphic facilitation and visual thinking scene.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Heather Willems</title><category term="Graphic Facilitators"/><category term="New York"/><id>http://www.alphachimp.com/people/heather-willems.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.alphachimp.com/people/heather-willems.html"/><author><name>Peter Durand</name></author><published>2009-08-13T18:11:47Z</published><updated>2009-08-13T18:11:47Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[GRAPHIC FACILITATOR | NEW YORK -&nbsp;<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">Trained as a professional artist, Heather came to be a visual practitioner through&hellip;waitressing!?! When explaining her creative process to a table of consultants, as &ldquo;transcribing eavesdropped conversations in to pictorial murals using text and image,&rdquo; they were more interested in her potential as a graphic recorder than they were in dessert!</span></span>]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Diane Durand</title><category term="Business Office"/><category term="Facilitation"/><category term="Nashville"/><category term="business"/><category term="facilitation"/><category term="innovation"/><category term="strategy"/><id>http://www.alphachimp.com/people/diane-durand.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.alphachimp.com/people/diane-durand.html"/><author><name>Peter Durand</name></author><published>2009-04-21T20:13:43Z</published><updated>2009-04-21T20:13:43Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[MANAGING DIRECTOR | NASHVILLE - Diane has spent most of her life adapting to change. Moving 23 times by the age of 16, she was always the “new girl”. At an early age, she learned the importance of understanding the pattern language of a group and learning how to adapt. Out of this experience, Diane has evolved a powerful emotional intelligence and intuition that serves her well in working with individuals and groups in transition.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Peter Durand</title><category term="Business Office"/><category term="Facilitation"/><category term="Graphic Facilitators"/><category term="Management"/><category term="Nashville"/><category term="Training"/><category term="business"/><category term="innovation"/><category term="strategy"/><category term="visual learning"/><id>http://www.alphachimp.com/people/peter-durand.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.alphachimp.com/people/peter-durand.html"/><author><name>Peter Durand</name></author><published>2009-04-12T02:07:40Z</published><updated>2009-04-12T02:07:40Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[NASHVILLE - Along with my wife, Diane, I co-founded Alphachimp Studio Inc., an information graphics and facilitation firm, in 1998 in Chicago’s Pilsen neighborhood. We moved to Pittsburgh after 9/11 for five great years living in the Mexican War Streets, and now live on Nashville’s West End. I always imaged Diane and I would be like Ray and Charles Eames. But we are more like Barney and Betty Rubble. These days, Diane is busy with two little girls, and I am just the ghost in the machine--the company is really run by out fantastic virtual assistants, Launa and Becky. And, the talent lies with the other graphic recorders and facilitators who serve our clients around North America, Europe and Asia.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Gretchen Pisano</title><category term="Coaching"/><category term="Facilitation"/><category term="Graphic Facilitators"/><category term="Training"/><category term="Washington DC"/><id>http://www.alphachimp.com/people/gretchen-pisano.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.alphachimp.com/people/gretchen-pisano.html"/><author><name>Peter Durand</name></author><published>2009-04-10T14:46:00Z</published><updated>2009-04-10T14:46:00Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[GRAPHIC FACILITATOR| WASHINGTON DC AREA - Consultant, thinker, thought partner, coach, designer, facilitator, visual practitioner – these are all things that Gretchen is every day and that she brings to every client relationship. The logic and flow of the process for doing this is clear because she agress with the axiom that "we begin with the end in mind." Professional competencies include: Creative Process Design & Facilitation, Executive Coaching, Graphic Facilitation, and Concept Modeling.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Nathaniel Bellows</title><category term="Graphic Recorders"/><category term="New York"/><category term="creativity"/><category term="storytelling"/><category term="writing"/><id>http://www.alphachimp.com/people/nathaniel-bellows.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.alphachimp.com/people/nathaniel-bellows.html"/><author><name>Peter Durand</name></author><published>2009-04-10T14:27:21Z</published><updated>2009-04-10T14:27:21Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[GRAPHIC RECORDER/WRITER | NEW YORK CITY - He has worked as a graphic recorder in the Cap Gemini Ernst & Young Accelerated Solutions Environment netowrk since 1999 for a long list of professional engagements. An author and visual artist living in NYC, his style is very narrative and illustrative, with wit and intelligence.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Jody Lentz</title><category term="Facilitation"/><category term="Graphic Facilitators"/><category term="Nashville"/><category term="innovation"/><category term="planning"/><category term="strategy"/><id>http://www.alphachimp.com/people/jody-lentz.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.alphachimp.com/people/jody-lentz.html"/><author><name>Peter Durand</name></author><published>2009-04-10T14:23:55Z</published><updated>2009-04-10T14:23:55Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[GRAPHIC FACILITATOR | NASHVILLE - Jody is a facilitator who has used visual and hands-on techniques to connect clients with each other, their organizations and their markets since 2000. His style is dynamic, playful and friendly, with a healthy dose of challenge to drive and inspire teams to their highest potential.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Melanie Benn</title><category term="Canada"/><category term="Graphic Recorders"/><id>http://www.alphachimp.com/people/melanie-benn.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.alphachimp.com/people/melanie-benn.html"/><author><name>Peter Durand</name></author><published>2009-04-10T14:11:09Z</published><updated>2009-04-10T14:11:09Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[GRAPHIC RECORDER | TORONTO - Originating from a family of visual learners in Red Hat, Canada, Melanie has been following in her parents footsteps. She has been working professionally as a graphic recorder since 2005. Her specialty is strategy and community development.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Drew Dernavitch</title><category term="Graphic Recorders"/><category term="Illustration"/><category term="New York"/><id>http://www.alphachimp.com/people/drew-dernavitch.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.alphachimp.com/people/drew-dernavitch.html"/><author><name>Peter Durand</name></author><published>2009-04-08T03:07:10Z</published><updated>2009-04-08T03:07:10Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[GRAPHIC FACILITATOR & ILLUSTRATOR - After moving to Boston, Drew began drawing political cartoons for a variety of weekly newspapers, earning Massachusetts and New England Press Awards for his work. He also began careers carving gravestones, and capturing business meetings graphically, both of which he still does. Drew had his first cartoon published in the New Yorker magazine in 2002.]]></summary></entry><entry><title>Joe Sterling</title><category term="California"/><category term="Facilitation"/><category term="Graphic Facilitators"/><id>http://www.alphachimp.com/people/joe-sterling.html</id><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.alphachimp.com/people/joe-sterling.html"/><author><name>Peter Durand</name></author><published>2009-04-08T02:38:23Z</published><updated>2009-04-08T02:38:23Z</updated><summary type="html" xml:lang="en-US"><![CDATA[GRAPHIC FACILITATOR | SAN DIEGO - Joe's greatest strength is in working with large bodies of executives and thought leaders in creating future scenarios, visions, strategic plans, and policy. He has been working passionately on regional and organizational sustainability issues in the greater San Diego region since 2003, including coordinating rescue and rebuilding efforts after massive canyon fires devastated his community, where he still lives on a ranch with his wife and a host of animals, large and small.]]></summary></entry></feed>