Eileen Clegg, MA, FRSA, is founder of the company Visual Insight, working with top leadership for Fortune 50 companies on vision, talent, transformation, and diversity www.visualinsight.net. Using large-scale graphics, digital storytelling and collaboration methods based on years of field research in Silicon Valley, she helps organizations leverage individuals’ creativity, knowledge and intuition.
Her Visual Insight clients include top leadership of IBM, Telenor (Youth Summit for the Nobel Peace Prize), Microsoft, Federal Health Futures (a consortium of all of federal health agencies), NetApp, Kaiser Permanente, Art Center College of Design, O’Reilly Media, Pfizer, Gilead BioSciences, American Society of Training and Development, and the Gates Foundation’s Model Secondary Schools Program. Eileen was a daily newspaper journalist for many years (Santa Rosa Press Democrat) before joining Institute for the Future in 1999, where large-scale graphics were used in futures forecasting.
She developed her unique visual practice in 2001.
She has written and illustrated numerous books on women’s issues, collaboration, leadership and technology, including: Claiming Your Creative Self: True Stories from the Everyday Lives of Women (New Harbinger 1999), Goodbye Good Girl (New Harbinger, 1998). The Corporate University Workbook (Jossey Bass Pfeiffer 2005), Evolving Collective Intelligence with Dr. Doug Engelbart and Valerie Landau (NextNow NextPress 2008), based on five years of conversations with Dr. Engelbart.
She has been a visual documentor of seminal thinking in learning and technology including contributions to Creating a Learning Culture, and numerous large timeline murals showing patterns and trends in learning, technology, and the role of women in society.