Ryan Coleman

Current

Facilitator & Information Designer at Freelance Consulting
Chief Community Evangelist at VizThink
Co-Founder & Strategic Adviser at Clay Tablet Technologies

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Past

CTO, Co-Founder at Clay Tablet Technologies
Owner at Userlogics
VP Design & Development at Creative Standard Canada Inc.

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Ryan Coleman’s Summary

Facilitator, Information Designer, Entrepreneur, Community Builder
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Facilitator & Information Designer
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I work with organizations to help them discover, define, refine & share their stories. I do this through my skills as a facilitator and information designer.

My work in these areas is built on over 10 years of working within organizations and with external clients to help develop communication pieces or business applications to achieve specific goals.

Entrepreneur
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I founded my first company, Euphoria Media Solutions in the summer of 1997 and over the next three years grew it to 15 employees and approaching $1M in revenues before it was sold into a sister organization.

Following that I co-founded Clay tablet Technologies a software company focused on improving the efficiency of the translation life cycle.

Community Builder
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Over the past few years I've become very involved with the Toronto technology, marketing and social media communities. In addition to being an active member in the community I've organized several BarCamps as well as some smaller events.

In 2007 I started an event called VizThink here in Toronto. Focusing on Visual Thinking & creativity. Since then VizThink has grown to become a global community with local meetups taking place in cities world wide, an online social network and conferences in both North America and Europe

About Me
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I'm passionate about Visual Thinking, Facilitation, Innovation & Sustainability.

I consume information voraciously and actively take experiences and learnings from seemingly unrelated spaces and generate new ideas - I'm a synthesist & design thinker and happily sit in the "Creative Generalist" category

Goals
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I want to work with innovative, responsible organizations who are looking to add something to the world, not just make a quick profit.

Ryan Coleman’s Specialties:

information design, facilitation, group facilitation, visual facilitation, consulting, content management solutions, application development, translation, multilingual content, globalization, localization, translation workflow, worklow design, illustrations, management, operations, marketing, user interface design, information architecture, usability, community development, visual thinking, unconferences, innovative thinking, facilitation, consulting

Ryan Coleman’s Experience

Facilitator & Information Designer

Freelance Consulting

(Professional Training & Coaching industry)

February 2009 — Present (11 months)

I help organizations discover, define, refine & share their stories through facilitation and information design.

Areas I've helped clients work through in the past include:

- Needs Analysis
- Discovery
- Business & Revenue Model Development
- Marketing Strategy & Planning
- Presentation Design
- Information Graphic Design
- Application Design
- Process Design
- Product Roadmap Development
- Strategic Planning
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Chief Community Evangelist

VizThink

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Events Services industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)

In my role as Community Evnagelist my responsibility is to help nurtutre and grow the community of visual thinkers while promoting visual thinking as an effective tool.

We're growing the community through offline efforts such as our conferences, day-long workshops and free community events. Online we're in the process of bringing a community website online that will allow Visual Thinkers from around the world to meet, share and exchange information and ideas.
Co-Founder & Strategic Adviser

Clay Tablet Technologies

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2008 — Present (1 year 9 months)