Patti Dobrowolski

Keynote Speaker, Illustrator, and Change Agent

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Patti Dobrowolski

Keynote Speaker, Illustrator, and Change Agent

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Why Book

Patti shares powerful stories that will inspire your team and leaders to think about goal setting in a new way.
She engages with your audience, inviting them to share their ideas and quickly captures those concepts into a beautiful illustration live on stage. That piece of art is yours to keep, to remind you and your organization — this is our next step, this is our future!
Patti crafts a powerful talk that will lock itself into the long term memory and a picture to leave a lasting impression for years to come.

Biography

Patti Dobrowolski, author of 9 Tips to Up Your Creative Genius and DRAWING SOLUTIONS: How Visual Goal Setting Will Change Your Life, is the founder of Up Your Creative Genius, a consulting firm that uses visuals and creative processes to help companies and individuals around the world accelerate growth and change.

Patti is a critically acclaimed comic performer, writer, business consultant, and an internationally recognized keynote and three-time TEDx speaker. She has brought innovative visual practices to Fortune 100 companies, governments, not for profits, and small businesses.

Patti holds a Masters in Psychology with an emphasis in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies.

Her signature TEDx talk, Draw Your Future has received close to 6 million views across all channels. She has since received thousands of comments and messages from people sharing their stories of how her talk helped them to change their business and their lives.

In 2004, the Association for Women honored Patti with the “Woman of Achievement” award and in 2019 she was invited to speak at the UN in New York city for the Ideagen Globals 2030 – Empowering Women & Girls Summit. She is on the Advisory Board for Women in Cloud, an organization committed to expanding economic pathways for women through technology.

Her large format strategic illustrations grace the walls of Microsoft Inc, Starbucks, Amazon, Pepsico, Turner Broadcasting, FritoLay North America, Genentech, Brooks Running, Providence Health Services, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, USDA and The Seattle Space Needle.

Patti lives with her wife Julie and three dogs on a small urban farm in Fort Worth, Texas.

Programs

Imagination Changes Everything — Your Secret Superpower

Only one person in ten who sets goals for their life will actually make the changes necessary to achieve them. In this powerful, dynamic talk, you’ll learn how you, your team and your organization can leverage your innate superpower — imagination — to increase your flexibility and resilience and achieve your goals with a 42% higher success rate.

While most of us believe we can “think” our way out of a problem, it’s better to imagine your success first. Imaginative thinking about your future gives your brain an internal goal. It then maps the route to your success creating road signs, identifying pitfalls and alerting you to necessary rest stops until you’ve arrived at your goals.

Don’t think, imagine. In this compelling illustrated Imagination TEDx talk I share stories and imaginative thinking skills from some of the greatest creative thinkers and artists of our time. While many people believe that Creative Genius is something accessible to few, I make the case in this talk that imagination is the most powerful problem solving skill anyone can use. That skill will open the door to your own Creative Genius.

This talk will engage your audience in using their imagination in new ways:

Envisioning their future in a picture form
Changing their perception of daydreaming
Creating a “what if” mentality — open to expansive ideas and new perspectives

The Creative Genius Equation How to Tap Your Innate Brilliance for Extraordinary Results

Envisioning a successful future for your organization is exciting, but when the rubber hits the road, many companies fail to deliver the results necessary to build or sustain that dream. The Creative Genius Equation with its four essential keys help create breakthrough changes and fill in the pieces of that future. Compelling stories from my work with Fortune 100 clients and nonprofits around the world will inspire your team to step up their game-changing strategies.

Everyone has a dream, but many people find it difficult to start, persist and remain focused long enough to achieve what they desire. In this compelling illustrated talk I make a bet with the audience that they can achieve their dreams by three simple keys:

Drawing your future
Changing your mind
Going inside yourself to fuel your dream with Creative Genius insights and an open heart of love

Draw Your Future® How a Simple Picture Changes Everything

If you want to stay relevant in your career or in your life, you have to be able to pivot your direction quickly! Draw Your Future® (my most highly requested talk) engages participants to experientially discover how to draw their future and accelerate change.

In this talk you will learn the key principles of the Draw Your Future® process to help you understand how drawing a simple picture can help you make change more easily.

This is a perfect activity to engage your team in thinking about the future in an innovative way and a valuable strategic tool for leaders looking to create change in team dynamics, organizational strategy, culture or goal setting.

How participants will benefit:

Understand the why of drawing a picture.
Create a Snapshot of their current state and desired change.
Envision and attach themselves to a positive future.
Tap their creative abilities to help problem solve.
Maintain their motivation to achieve their goals

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