About VisualsSpeak
Christine Martell and Tom Tiernan are the owners of VisualsSpeak. We have been helping Trainers, Facilitators, and Consultants to improve results for their clients with VisualsSpeak since 2004. We draw on over twenty years of training and facilitation experience to provide you with innovative ideas and tools to enhance the results you get for your clients.
VisualsSpeak is primarily a business that helps professionals enhance their communication processes. With the increased pressure to get better, faster results, professionals are turning to tools that are more customizable, engaging, and get results quickly. Our VisualsSpeak ImageSet is the tool of choice for many professionals due to its flexibility and wide range of applications.
In addition to our tools and techniques we provide our customers and clients with a wide range of resources such as a free e-Newsletter, Blog, a Resources section on our website, and one-on-one coaching.
VisualsSpeak Philosophy
Our success depends on your success. Our relationship is a partnership. Your successful use of our tools and techniques is critical to our success. We are always looking for ways to innovate based on your feedback.
We value long-term relationships. We want to work with you on a long-term basis and have you feel you could recommend us to a colleague without hesitation. We invite you to give us feedback… the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Holistic facilitating approaches work best. A holistic approach is one that engages both the creative and analytical parts of people. VisualsSpeak tools and techniques are designed to tap into the deep creative aspects of ourselves to solve problems, generate ideas, and to make deep connections with people.
Experiential processes have the ability to transform individuals and groups. Getting everyone involved in a process and giving them a voice in the outcome is how to engage people most effectively.
Empower people “ Don’t put them in a box. Our processes are participant-led and don’t rely on an interpretation by an expert. Clients are the only ones who can correctly identify, label and clarify their ideas, beliefs and values. As facilitators, our job is to offer guidance for how clients can get deeper insights and be able to communicate them in a way that others can understand.
Creative processes should be fun. Having fun opens the doors to creativity and stimulates new ways of to approach problem solving. Fun is where creativity lives.
Cooperative communities have a greater ability to enhance processes than a single expert. We are committed to inviting and sharing information on more effective practices with the VisualsSpeak community. Sometimes we are the teacher and at others you are the teacher and we are your students.