Successful teachers, like successful leaders, know how to engage people's hearts. Sidneyeve Matrix is one of my favorite people to talk about this with. A marketing professor and graphic designer with a Harvard credential in Instructional Design, Sidneyeve devotes I'm guessing most of her waking moments to thinking about how to help people learn by surrounding them with beauty.

Sidneyeve joins us to today to share her insights into how design can stimulate empathy, facilitate learning, and act as a catalyst for entrepreneurs. We talk about how visual cues prompt our brains to fire, and how color, curiosity, and empathy keep us engaged in what we're learning. Sidneyeve shares examples from her college teaching, the coaching she does with entrepreneurs, and from her own design shop, Valentine Course Design.

In higher ed we talk a fair bit about how visuals support teaching -- the visual syllabus is nothing new -- but I'm struck by the analog to leadership. Imagine how joyful it would be to attend meetings where documents were actually enticing to look at, or where visualizations were used to engage our hearts and minds and prompt rich conversation. Sidneyeve makes even basic ideas -- like using color-coding to help cue people to where they are, or creating simple leaderboards with eye-catching graphics -- begin to feel not only manageable but desirable.

No matter where you are in your leadership journey there's something in here for you. And maybe you'll come out on the other side not just with ideas for using color and images in your LMS, but possibly with an idea or two for creating pretty agendas and event programs to bring life to your administrative docs.

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