Mónica Navarro Leonard
Graphic facilitation and graphic recording for meetings of all shapes and sizes. I listen to the conversation and draw it as it happens, so complex ideas become something everyone can see.
Selected work
A few recent pieces, sorted by type. Click any image to enlarge.
Workshop and meeting overviews
Large-scale murals built up over the whole meeting, adding what the group covers as it happens. A finished piece can run 12 feet long and 8 feet high, and gives everyone a picture of what they accomplished.
Live scribing
Drawn in real time while people are speaking, so the room can watch its own ideas take shape.
Post-meeting visuals
Made after the meeting from highlights and notes, so people can share and revisit what was said.
How I work
Listen
Meetings are full of good ideas that vanish by lunch. I listen for them: what is said, what is meant, and what everyone keeps circling back to.
Ears first, markers second.
Back to topDiscern
Not every word makes it onto the wall. I pick out the ideas that carry weight and how they connect, so a two-hour debate fits on one page.
Finding the structure inside the conversation.
Back to topCapture
Then I draw it: live, while the conversation is still happening, or afterward as a polished visual you can share and revisit.
A picture people can follow.
Back to topAbout Mónica
I grew up in New Jersey and reached Baltimore the scenic way, by way of Philadelphia and Washington, DC. Along the route I have been a wedding photographer, a designer, a political campaign staffer, a rock band manager, a dog nanny and, once, a birthday party clown. Every one of those jobs taught me the same thing: people are always telling a story, and most of them could use a hand telling it.
These days I draw that story while it is happening. I do graphic facilitation and graphic recording for meetings of every size, turning complex ideas into pictures people can follow.
Off the clock, I love dogs, Halloween and a good book. I think Old Bay is just OK, and I have made my peace with what that means in Baltimore.
- Based
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Does
- Graphic facilitation and graphic recording (scribing)
- Loves
- Dogs, Halloween, reading, and telling stories
- Old Bay
- Just OK
Let's start by listening.
Planning a meeting, workshop or event worth remembering? Tell me about it.
mnavarro80@gmail.com