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Ik ben Karl Mortier. Trainer, NLP-mastertrainer, coach en keynote speaker — en iemand die gelooft dat leiderschap pas echt zichtbaar wordt wanneer het leven anders loopt dan gepland. Deze podcast is een META-podcast. Geen vast format. Geen vast thema. Wel één rode draad: persoonlijk leiderschap wanneer omstandigheden je uitdagen. Sommige afleveringen vertrekken vanuit mijn boek “De sleutel waar je niet om vroeg” — een verhaal dat ontstond uit ervaring. Niet over ziekte, maar over regie nemen wanneer situaties tegenzitten. Andere afleveringen gaan over communicatie, NLP, gedragsverandering, feedback, veiligheidscultuur, storytelling, generatieve AI, training geven, humor als hefboom en leiderschap in organisaties. Wat je hier altijd vindt: – scherpe inzichten – eerlijke reflecties – praktische toepasbaarheid – en af en toe een cartoon in woorden Deze podcast is voor wie moeilijke momenten niet wil ontwijken, maar wil gebruiken als hefboom voor groei. Want vroeg of laat krijgt iedereen een sleutel waar hij niet om vroeg. De vraag is: wat doe jij ermee? 

  1. 5d ago

    Je staat er nooit alleen voor - Karl Mortier gaat in gesprek met Gianni Mahieu

    "Je staat er nooit alleen voor" | Gianni Gianni belde op een dag zelf met de vraag of hij zijn verhaal mocht doen. De vragen werden vooraf voorbereid samen met hem en zijn psychologe. Het resultaat is een openhartig gesprek, opgenomen op Hoeve Hestia na een druk rallyweekend in Ieper. Gianni is dertig, sous-chef in een restaurant in Roeselare, politiek actief in Ieper en iemand die bij de eerste vrije dag het vliegtuig neemt. Vandaag noemt hij zichzelf iemand die graag onder de mensen is en emoties deelt. Dat was lang anders. Hoe het begon De eerste signalen waren stil en sluipend: hij verzorgde zichzelf niet meer, dronk steeds vaker en steeds meer, en had de fles nodig om te kunnen lachen. Wakker worden zonder goesting. Angstaanvallen. Wenen in de auto, alleen, op de terugweg van het werk. Naar buiten toe bleef alles overeind. Toen zijn beste maat uit het leven stapte, stortte dat evenwicht in. Kort daarna stond Gianni zelf op het punt om er een einde aan te maken, op dezelfde plek. Een stem in zijn hoofd zei: niet doen. Hij is er nog, en dat is precies waarom hij dit gesprek wilde voeren. Verlies en onmacht Er kwam meer. Zijn mareine, grootmoeder en tegelijk zijn beste vriendin, kreeg de diagnose alzheimer. Dat telefoontje kwam terwijl het gezin midden in de coronaperiode terugreed van de luchthaven in Luik. Een uur muisstil in de auto. Zijn opa, die zonet het nieuws over zijn eigen vrouw had gekregen, zat achter het stuur om zijn kleinzoon op te halen. Vijf jaar lang zorgde die opa thuis voor haar. Pas negen maanden voor haar overlijden ging ze naar een woonzorgcentrum. Gianni ging bijna vier keer per week op bezoek. Toen ze stierf was hij net geland in Alicante, met haar uitdrukkelijke toestemming om te vertrekken. Sindsdien zijn een vlinder en een klaproos voor hem een teken dat ze in de buurt is. Er klinkt ook boosheid. Een medicijn dat in de Verenigde Staten al beschikbaar was, raakte pas jaren later goedgekeurd in Europa. Te laat voor haar. De stap naar hulp Eerst was er ontkenning: ik kan dat wel alleen. Tot hij besefte dat hij nooit meer op die plek wilde staan. De mail naar de psycholoog kon hij niet zelf typen, iemand anders schreef hem, hij drukte op verzenden. Er waren wachtlijsten, en dan plots een plaats die vrijkwam. In de wachtzaal blijven zitten in plaats van weg te lopen, noemt hij achteraf een van zijn belangrijkste beslissingen. Wat hielp: kleurcodes om aan te geven of hij in rood, oranje of groen zit. Praten, en vooral niet alleen thuis blijven. En bovenal een vertrouwensband die ook buiten de sessies blijft bestaan. Stabiliteit in golven Terugvallen horen erbij. Het overlijden van mareine, het hartinfarct van zijn vader, soms volstaat iets kleins. Zijn model is eenvoudig en verrassend bruikbaar: het leven gaat in golven. Na een dieptepunt komt een hoogtepunt, en na een hoogtepunt weer een dal. Zolang de golf beweegt, is er stabiliteit. Wat hem optilt is klein en concreet: de bergen in Spanje, een wandeling in het bos, de zee, de meeuwen, dansen in de regen. Hij vertelt ook over ademruimte, over kwetsbaarheid als kracht, over familie, over het belang van een doel dat je écht waarmaakt in plaats van uitstelt, over binnenkort Caïro en Luxor. En over alcohol, die geen enkel probleem oplost. Zijn boodschap Je staat er nooit alleen voor. Er is altijd wel iemand. Zoek hulp, en stel het niet uit. Hulp zou ook sneller beschikbaar moeten zijn: minder wachtlijsten, meer aandacht voor preventie. Dank aan Gianni voor zijn vertrouwen, en aan zijn psychologe en alle hulpverleners.

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    E8 : Beyond Visuals ISC EVP Verona 2026 Podcast with Barbara Grzegorzewska

    Draw It and I goes Away | Barbara Grzegorzewska in conversation with Karl Mortier, International Visual Storyteller and Master of Ceremonies Recorded at the International Sketchnote Camp (ISC) in Verona, with European Visual Practitioners (EVP).  You Have to be a little Crazy Barbara Grzegorzewska ends a long day surrounded by sketchnotes and graphic recordings with one thought: these people are crazy, in the best sense. Karl Mortier turns it into a question. You need a bit of craziness for this work, or at least the courage to step out. How crazy is she? Enough. What Changed Since Plovdiv They met in Plovdiv in May 2024, her first encounter with the visual practitioner community. Before that she was alone. There are practitioners in Poland, but she was barely connected to them, and the Polish meetups stopped just as she became active. Two things changed since. Confidence, which she says you can feel. And going full time with graphic recording, which works and which she enjoys. Fun matters, along with flow and inspiration, and something behind the work beyond the income. Without that, you burn out. The Business Behind it Graphic recording accounts for roughly 80 to 90 percent of her income, with illustration and whiteboard animation making up the rest. She did not arrive with a plan. She came across sketchnoting online and did not believe she could do it. She had been doodling for years, nothing artistic. Then, with small children at home, she attended parenting workshops and felt the pull to draw the situations rather than write them, because a conversation between mother and child is easier to hold as a picture. She shared them there, some were published online, and she took a course. Fun came first, earning came after. Her marketing is unusual for the field, and deliberate. Rather than building on social media, she built her own website and enjoyed doing it: case studies, search optimisation, some Google Ads. A technical approach rather than a social one. Word of mouth works too. When someone reaches out, she points them to the case study closest to their situation. Bringing Her Daughter Her daughter draws, and has a style of her own. Barbara first brought her to last year's ISC in Birmingham, unsure whether it would work. It did. She goes her own way, participates and interacts. Beyond the fun, it is mother and daughter time. Comics as a Way Through The most striking part is what Barbara does with visualisation in private. She draws comics of her own life in a notebook, for herself and perhaps one day for her children, who currently find it uncool. Mostly everyday situations, but sometimes something she needs to work through, a conflict or a worry. Because she is an optimist, the stories end well. That is the mechanism: when a problem keeps her awake, she draws a story out of it, and it goes. Karl Mortier calls it a predicted outcome. He connects it to Julia Cameron's morning pages, the daily flow of writing that clears the head, and Barbara agrees the effect is similar, only in comic form. She gives the same advice in her workshops: sit down one evening and draw the day, or the problem. People come back the next day to say it works. Karl Mortier sketches a frame for it on the spot: four boxes, the difficult situation, its negative effect, a switch, then a solution.

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    E7 : Beyond Visuals ISC EVP Verona 2026 Podcast with Federica Tabone

    Every Gate Has a Gatekeeper | Federica Tabone in conversation with Karl Mortier, International Visual Storyteller and Master of Ceremonies Recorded at the International Sketchnote Camp (ISC) in Verona, with European Visual Practitioners (EVP).  Behind the Event Federica Tabone organised ISC Verona, and this is the look back over more than a year of work, from the first phone call to a campfire ready for the closing day. She is proud, and grateful for the volunteers who supported her and Claudio Nichele. Her reading: when a community feels intentionally connected around a practice, that becomes a common effort. Organisational Psychologist and Graphic Recorder Federica combines two professions rather than choosing, and went looking for a name for the combination. Visual Psychology was the result, and the title of her forthcoming book. Over 23 years she has delivered 160 coaching paths, the part she loves most. The path was not direct. Six years as a recruiter, then independent work in gamification, experiential learning and outplacement, where she noticed that games and drawing energised a group and made it think differently. Ten years in, a friend invited her to a visual facilitation training. Love at first sight, for one reason: it was not about drawing well but about synthesising a conversation visually. She could already find the main point; visualisation was one step more. Gatekeepers Federica goes back 13 years. Italian practitioners told her about the European movement, and in 2015 she attended an event in Rome organised by Sara Serravalle, where she met colleagues from across Europe. Instagram kept those contacts alive, and year by year they became real. Karl Mortier names the pattern running through the episode: Sara as gatekeeper, and behind the gate a world. From Intention to Decision The idea of giving something back had been in her mind for years, but she waited until she was ready. First Tallinn, at the EVP annual meeting, where someone asked why she did not organise the next one. Then Birmingham, where the same signal came again and pushed her over the line. In Birmingham she also met Claudio Nichele in person for the first time, having known him only through social media. She shared her idea and he said immediately he was with her. Another gatekeeper, another door. Used to doing everything alone, she felt the weight halve. Then Claudio phoned Karl Mortier, who still remembers the couch he sat on in the Netherlands. The ask: support from EVP on financial management and volunteer insurance. What She Would tell another Organiser Plan a great deal, and know that not everything will happen as you imagined. That awareness makes flexibility possible: accepting that what you designed is not the best solution, and finding another. Hold two things in view, the event itself and the relationships around it. And start from a concept. What do you want to convey, and what distinguishes your event from every other? Without that you copy what you have seen. Take inspiration from earlier editions, then add your own DNA before building the deployment. Concept and Context Verona mattered as much as the concept, because a concept needs an environment to host it. Her reasoning is practical: people are comfortable when they can orient themselves, and Verona is small enough to walk, big enough to surprise, and near an airport. Her own Takeaway Confirmation that she can do this at international scale, and a reminder she wants to hold on to: when you are the one others look to for orientation, you still have to keep learning.

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    E6 : Beyond Visuals ISC EVP Verona 2026 Podcast with Elena Urizar

    The Lady with the Hat | Elena Urizar Ipiña in conversation with Karl Mortier, International Visual Storyteller and Master of Ceremonies Recorded at the International Sketchnote Camp (ISC) in Verona, with European Visual Practitioners (EVP).  A Shared Memory Karl Mortier opens with how they met, or rather how they did not. An EVP meetup in Madrid, a missed plane, a phone call instead. Elena Urizar Ipiña told him not to worry, that other opportunities would come. Months later in Hamburg she was one of the first to welcome him. It felt like one moment. Many followed. A Learner first Asked how she sees herself in the visual world, Elena answers without hesitation: a learner. What she is most grateful for is having learned to trust herself by watching others work. Her turning point was the first IFVP conference in Berlin in 2014, where people shared knowledge openly and she began building herself as a practitioner. It is where she met Brandy Agerbeck, who became her beacon. Opening Agerbeck's book on graphic facilitation felt like opening a Harry Potter book: all the magic was in there, and she could suddenly see clearly. She calls herself a big listener and observer, using drawing to promote understanding without worrying about perfection. Good enough to be clear, fast enough to capture the essence of what others know. What she is after is collaboration, people growing their own knowledge as the graphics link up and spark new ideas. Curiosity as a Golden Key Curiosity, for Elena, comes from books above all, and from travelling. Her father taught her something she still works from: you do not need to know everything, but you need to know where the thread is. Karl Mortier offers a visual for it. What you know is a dot. Draw a circle around it, and between dot and edge lies what you do not know yet. Outside the circle is what you will never know. Believe you know everything and you are locked inside the circle. Elena extends it with wine, an interest she calls part of her Basque DNA. Wine is a marvellous storyteller, combining soil, history, work on the land and years of care. Read enough and taste enough and people assume you know wine, while you know how little you know. The world works the same way, and it is immense. There is a practical version too. She keeps her stereotypes on a shelf, not pretending she has none, but parking them until she has been close enough to know. Neuland Ambassador Elena has been a Neuland ambassador for years and represents them at ISC. Her admiration is specific rather than promotional: products developed out of practitioners' experience, refillable markers with water-based ink that dries fast, changeable nibs, pin bars, care down to the small boxes. Her graphic board, she says, has more kilometres than the Orient Express. The Story Behind the Hat She has always worn hats. The first was an antique top hat from the early twentieth century, kept at home like a jewel, belonging to her partner's great-grandfather. At an event that felt precious enough she wore it, and it felt right. Then the Neuland notebook strap turned out to fit the hat perfectly, the markers went on it, and the visual hat existed. Heat waves pushed her toward the straw Summer Edition, spotted on an artist on Instagram and found in Sevilla. It was never meant as a trademark. It became one anyway, because people smile. She closes with a word for bikablo, which opened the door to visual thinking for many people, and for the community she found in Verona.

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    E5 : Beyond Visuals ISC EVP Verona 2026 Podcast with Marie Gutmann

    Curiosity Is the Base of Everything | Marie in conversation with Karl Mortier, International Visual Storyteller and Master of Ceremonies Recorded at the International Sketchnote Camp (ISC) in Verona, with European Visual Practitioners (EVP).  Who She is Marie is a professional graphic recorder based in Nuremberg, Bavaria. Alongside client work she teaches sketchnotes, flipcharts and visual storytelling, visualising processes and strategies across many sectors. Karl Mortier calls that variety a talent stack: skills pulled out depending on who is in the room. Industrial Design as a Foundation Her strongest skills, by her own account, are structuring and abstracting, straight out of studying industrial design. There you understand the problem, abstract it, structure it, and only then design. The question she carried through was how to reduce something to the maximum and still give people an emotion. She started sketching in her twenties, and moving into graphic recording the same principle applied. The bridge she built ran from designing products to creating content and communication for humans. Why She came to Verona She wanted to see how facilitators and recorders from other countries work: how they see the world, how they handle transformation. And because, in her words, these are funny people with warm hearts. Curiosity as Professional Infrastructure Marie is not sentimental about it. Curiosity is the base of everything in the field. Four clients in a month means a different graphic recording every week. Digital and AI come up often, but so do universities, science and culture. That demands switching fast and never being bored by anyone's content: asking what they are doing, deciding it is interesting even when it sits outside your own field, and finding what you can learn. Karl Mortier turns the idea around. Practitioners are not only curious, they make others curious. He calls it contaminating with curiosity. Marie recognises it in the feedback loop: she is curious about the information, people are curious about the result, then surprised. So that is how we are, and that is how you see us. The Biggest Smile Asked what she likes most, the answer is short. Make people smile. The biggest one came from a project on making inner cities more liveable, in her own hometown, where a large shopping mall stands empty. A city-initiated cultural project ran a two-day co-creation event with music and dancing, and five graphic recorders talked to whoever walked up. Everyone came, rich and poor. What struck her was the gratitude: my idea is heard, my opinion is made visible. The moment she keeps is a homeless woman who talked about older people with walkers and kerbs that are too high, and suggested ramps. Someone with nothing of her own, thinking about others, because she watches them every day. Drawing for children lands the same way: children are honest, and the impact shows in how they leave. Feeling Involved, Seen and Heard Karl Mortier names the two words underneath the story: involvement and emotion. Marie agrees this is the great part of the work and pushes further. It belongs far more in public and government communication, bringing ordinary people together rather than staying inside business. She was proud of that project, and specific about why. Not because she thinks she is a great sketcher, but proud of the people around her and their ideas. We need communities, she says, because we all hang on machines. What she loves is the craftsmanship of working by hand.

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    E4 : Beyond Visuals ISC EVP Verona 2026 Podcast with Joanna and Robert Six

    Throwing Visual Bombs | Joanna and Robert Six in conversation with Karl Mortier, International Visual Storyteller and Master of Ceremonies Recorded at the International Sketchnote Camp (ISC) in Verona, with European Visual Practitioners (EVP). Host: Karl Mortier Where the Title came from Karl Mortier opens with what struck him during the morning pitches: whether sketchnoting, graphic recording and visualisation can make the world better. One pitch stood out. The story behind the name is honest and slightly uncomfortable. Two days earlier Joanna and Robert Six met another graphic recorder and became friends immediately. That evening the conversation landed on climate change. She said that if she had children, she would throw bombs, because temperatures rise and politicians do not react. That is not their style, but the image was too strong to waste. They kept the picture and changed the adjective. As Karl Mortier puts it, the adjective matters more than the bomb. From Idea to Session in One Evening The session was improvised the night before, so there was no curriculum. They opened with their own work. Joanna and Robert paint visions and future pictures for organisations working on climate, including a Ministry of Climate. Not everyone carries the same picture in their head, and unspoken pictures do not match. The job is finding a future image people can share. Three Phases of Visualising Climate Their practice moves in three phases. Clarity: what is going on, what the data says, what the drivers for change are. Vision: freer, looser, imagining a world better than this one. Detail: first steps, solutions, resources. Big picture first, then trickle down. The Post that Went Viral Their first viral post reached around 150,000 impressions. Robert used the warming stripes to lay three lifetimes side by side: the first eighteen years of their son, who turns eighteen next week, and the same span for his father and grandfather. Three generations, one image, a difference impossible to argue with. Karl Mortier names the mechanism: break it down, bring it back to yourself, tell your own story. Facts joined to emotion move people, because it is not only the brain that decides. Activism, for them, has a precise definition. Working on climate with organisations is the job. Doing it unpaid is the activism. Anger, Grief, Then Action Asked which visual stands out, Joanna points to the drivers, and to the heat wave they sat in while recording. Her first instinct had been to hold the session outside for ninety minutes so people would physically feel the change. The session started from anger and did not skip past it. There is anger, and there is grief, because species and lives are lost daily. Both need acknowledging before anyone steps into action. Robert, seeing Fran O'Hara's graphic recording for the first time, picks the emotions panel: hands, colours, thoughts. After emotions comes creativity. And a role reversal that moved him, since a graphic recorder normally captures other people's words from behind the work. This time someone recorded their story. What Comes Next The real takeaway was discovering how many people elsewhere work on the same thing. Connection is the next step. Contacts in England and a visual wave in the Netherlands are on the list. Asked what a magic wand would deliver a year from now, the answer is not a changed climate but a bigger network: people amplifying each other's messages and bringing ideas for activating others. Find them on LinkedIn or via their website.

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    E3 : Beyond Visuals ISC EVP Verona 2026 Podcast with Professor Clayton

    Sketchnoting in the Age of AI | Professor Michael Clayton in conversation with Karl Mortier, International Visual Storyteller and Master of Ceremonies Recorded at the International Sketchnote Camp (ISC) in Verona, with European Visual Practitioners (EVP). Host: Karl Mortier, International Visual Storyteller and Master of Ceremonies The Guest Michael Clayton is a professor of graphic design in San Antonio, Texas, teaching there 25 years. A lifelong doodler, he found Mike Rohde's work on Twitter around 2010. One bold DM led to lunch in Milwaukee, on the day Rohde handed in the manuscript of The Sketchnote Handbook. A network grew out of that friendship: Mauro Toselli in Italy, Makayla Lewis in London, Oscar Campo in Colombia. An informal gathering in Maryland in February 2017, later nicknamed "ISC0", became the seed of the first International Sketchnote Camp in Hamburg. Sketchnoting as a University Course During a 2016 sabbatical, Clayton went deep into visual note taking and discovered graphic recording, graphic facilitation and the wider field of visual practice. He built a course open to every department: education, political science, psychology, philosophy, nursing, sports management, fashion. Drawing skills are not required. If you can handle a dot, a line, a circle, a triangle and a square, you can do this. From there it moves on to icons, visual mnemonics, layout and hierarchy. He graded effort rather than style, because a sketchnote is personal and the only person who needs to decipher it is the one who made it. One student passed his history exam thanks to it, two others went on to teach the technique to elementary school pupils. Mind Mapping Karl Mortier tells how he once travelled to Henley-on-Thames to meet Tony Buzan in person, because he wanted the method straight from the source. Mind mapping as a metaphor for a brain making connections, with rabbit holes you can always trace back to the entrance. The Core: what is a Sketchnote in the Age of Ai? Clayton pitched a session at ISC on the definition of sketchnoting. The trigger was an article about AI sketchnotes: run a transcript through a prompt and let an image roll out. The group, including Mike Rohde, Rob Dimeo, Mauro Toselli and Steven Silbert, pushed back on two counts. Nothing about it is sketchy, because AI produces highly polished work, and the notes reflect what the machine found important, not what a human found important. Not a sketchnote, then, but a visual summary or an infographic. The session produced a clear distinction by audience and intent: Sketchnote: for yourself, your own thinking on paper. Graphic recording: live and visible, for others. Graphic facilitation: on the wall, with everyone contributing. Adrian from the UK introduced the idea of generative practices, broken down into the how, the what and the outcome. Mauro Toselli added the cooking metaphor: guests ask about the ingredients first, and only ask for the recipe once they like the food. Ingredients are the building blocks, the recipe is the framework. The conclusion is honest and uncomfortable. AI is moving in on graphic recording first, precisely the line item that gets cut when a budget tightens. Clayton does not fear the technology, he fears the wrong hands: who checks whether what the model pulled out is accurate and actually matters? It is the human who listens, filters and gets moved by something. Karl Mortier sums it up as a human field and offers a new term: human note taking. A profession in evolution: the curse of knowledge, roles being rewritten, and why ignoring something is never a strategy.

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    E2 : Beyond Visuals ISC EVP Verona 2026 Podcast with Mike Rohde

    Where Sketchnoting Came From | Mike Rohde in conversation with Karl Mortier, International Visual Storyteller and Master of Ceremonies 3988 characters Recorded at the International Sketchnote Camp (ISC) in Verona, with European Visual Practitioners (EVP). Host: Karl Mortier, Visual Practitioner. A Natural Environment Mike Rohde calls ISC his natural environment, where he need not pretend to be anyone else. Karl Mortier asks who Mike actually is, beyond the name on the book covers. The answer is short: a creative, curious person. The Day Job Nobody Expects Few people realise Mike has a day job outside sketchnoting: user experience designer on a security software team. His observation about that world travels far beyond it: developers know their product is complex, but they get lost in their own complexity and forget it is complex for someone who has not opened it in three months. Visualisation shows up naturally in that context. Fluent enough in the developers' language to follow a meeting, he draws what is being said on a whiteboard. He names the trap it defuses: the illusion of agreement. Everyone uses the same words, but each person's definition differs. Drawing the idea gives it a body, and suddenly someone says wait, that is not what I meant. How ISC Started Rob DeMillo, fascinated by sketchnotes, invited fifteen to twenty friends to his workplace in Maryland for a weekend of sharing techniques. February 2017. Two participants, both German and familiar with the bar camp format, asked what a sketchnote bar camp would look like. Eight or nine months later the first International Sketchnote Camp opened in Hamburg. In a bar camp the people in the room are the experts and they decide what the sessions are, rather than paid keynote speakers on a single track. If a session is not for you, it is fine to get up and walk to another one. That freedom pushes the community to be proactive with what it knows. Verona adds graphic harvesting: participants capture in each session, and the harvest pulls the themes of the event together. Visual thinkers reach for a visual way to solve a problem, and with this much information, that is one way to find the patterns. The Origin Story Around 2006 Mike was frustrated with his own notes. Large lined A4 notebooks, longhand, in pencil in case he made a mistake. Capturing became a burden, he never got all the detail he wanted, and worst of all he never reopened the books. Absorbing without processing. So he experimented. A pocket Moleskine, small enough that every time he touched it he was reminded he was not a court reporter. And pen instead of pencil, which meant committing to whatever landed on the page. That slowed him down, and slowing down moved the processing to the moment itself. Important goes on the page, not important does not. His goal at that design conference was concrete: apply these ideas at work the next day, because he had paid for that transformation. Loving typography and lettering, he drew slides he liked and images that came to him for an idea, because drawing and annotating beat writing another paragraph. Lettering, drawing and writing mixed, and it made sense to call the result sketchnoting. Beyond the Founder Nine years on, Mike's favourite part is that each edition is a new group and takes the flavour of its place. The community sustains itself. If he does not come, it still happens. He discovered it, applied it, taught it, and it has gone beyond him. Other perspectives find applications he never would have. Karl Mortier names it the torch, passed on and creating new legacies.

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Ik ben Karl Mortier. Trainer, NLP-mastertrainer, coach en keynote speaker — en iemand die gelooft dat leiderschap pas echt zichtbaar wordt wanneer het leven anders loopt dan gepland. Deze podcast is een META-podcast. Geen vast format. Geen vast thema. Wel één rode draad: persoonlijk leiderschap wanneer omstandigheden je uitdagen. Sommige afleveringen vertrekken vanuit mijn boek “De sleutel waar je niet om vroeg” — een verhaal dat ontstond uit ervaring. Niet over ziekte, maar over regie nemen wanneer situaties tegenzitten. Andere afleveringen gaan over communicatie, NLP, gedragsverandering, feedback, veiligheidscultuur, storytelling, generatieve AI, training geven, humor als hefboom en leiderschap in organisaties. Wat je hier altijd vindt: – scherpe inzichten – eerlijke reflecties – praktische toepasbaarheid – en af en toe een cartoon in woorden Deze podcast is voor wie moeilijke momenten niet wil ontwijken, maar wil gebruiken als hefboom voor groei. Want vroeg of laat krijgt iedereen een sleutel waar hij niet om vroeg. De vraag is: wat doe jij ermee?