Emily Shepard is a graphic facilitator, illustrator, and teacher with over 20 years’ experience. 

She listens, synthesizes and draws to help people clarify their thinking, collaborate through complexity and inspire change. She enjoys building strong partnerships with her clients – grounded in empathy, clear outcomes, and fun.

Over the years her clients have run the gamut from large corporations, to start ups, non profits, foundations and government. She’s worked in a myriad of subject areas, and has enjoyed collaborating with her clients to design meetings that allow for deep participation and connection.

Currently, Emily is most interested in creating positive change in the world by supporting organizations that focus on equity, and social and environmental justice.

Emily also loves to teach people visual thinking and graphic recording. Give her five minutes and she’ll prove that you can draw!  She’s taught visual thinking workshops at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, Stanford University’s School of Business and at California College of the Art’s dMBA program, as well as at various consulting firms, public agencies, and local public school districts.

She’s also a working fine artist, you can find more information at emilyshepard.com

Emily received a B.A. from Middlebury College in Vermont, and a M.F.A. with distinction from the California College of the Arts in Oakland, California.