Our second keynote speaker: Sunni Brown

OK, please excuse the fanboy exasperation (which I will attempt to rinse out of this post before I hit Publish, but is bound to make its way through anyway) but we have another keynote speaker to announce ...

To say we're excited to have Sunni Brown presenting our opening keynote presentation at VizConf would not be doing justice to our ability to get excited. Sunni Brown! If you've spent any time exploring the world of visual thinking, then you're bound to have come across her amazing TED talk or leafed through one of her best-selling books. 

This will be Sunni's first visit to Australia, and Marcel and I are beyond proud to be bringing her to Melbourne to speak at VizConf. 

Here's her bio, just to get you more excited before the event:

Sunni founded the SB Ink creative consultancy over 11 years ago and she continues to grow and lead it. She is an author, speaker, coach, and expert meeting facilitator. She was named one of the “100 Most Creative People in Business” and one of the “10 Most Creative People on Twitter” by Fast Company. 

Her team has designed and led hundreds of group experiences in diverse industries and she is a veteran public speaker, having delivered countless presentations and "playnotes" in environments around the world.

Sunni is the best-selling author of Gamestorming and The Doodle Revolution and she leads a worldwide campaign advocating for visual, game, design and improvisational thinking and deploys those techniques to teach sought-after leadership skills like empathy, emotional intelligence, effective communication and collaboration.

Her TED Talk on doodling has drawn more than 1.3 million views on TED.com and her work has been featured in every major U.S. publication including The New York Times, The New York Post, The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, WIRED, and Entrepreneur, as well as being featured on Good Morning Canada, twice on CBS Sunday Morning and recently on the TODAY Show with Megyn Kelly. 

Sunni is an autodidact and she is trained in meditation, Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, and two mind-body practices called Hakomi and Internal Family Systems. Her forthcoming book currently titled Deep Self Design, uses visual and game thinking to teach self-awareness and emotional intelligence.

Don't miss your only chance to see Sunni speak in Australia! VizConf is a one-day conference on October 13 in Melbourne, Australia, for facilitators, graphic recorders, illustrators, and anyone interested in visual thinking. Register for VizConf 2018 now, before tickets are sold out!