We are facilitators, strategists, process designers, and visual storytellers.
Our team is built on our passion around people and enabling sustainable communications by utilizing the power of visual communication. Having been in hundreds of meetings where great ideas went nowhere, we’re committed to bringing ideas to life by creating the right conditions for productive and generative conversations.
We are a group of professionals with years of experience in facilitation and design—with rockstar drawing skills—to help teams and organizations.
Sophia Liang, Founder & Chief Visual Strategist
As a thought leader in the field of graphic facilitation, Sophia leads our team with an uncanny ability to listen deeply, guide groups, and visualize complicated ideas. With over 15 years of experience in graphic facilitation, graphic recording, and experiential learning design, she thrives by partnering with clients to design conditions for effective conversations and high-level engagement. Nothing is better than when we can clear both the visible and invisible barriers enabling good work to happen.
Sophia regularly teaches visual thinking workshops to put the power of the pen into the hands of her clients and emerging visual practitioners. She believes that when groups are given the power to voice and visualize their own ideas, they have better conversations, and make better decisions. Her work has been featured in Graphic Recording: Live Illustrations for Meetings, Conferences and Workshops and The World of Visual Facilitation.
“When I see my clients sit back in their chairs — relaxed, engaged, and interested — that’s when I know we’ve hit a sweet spot. I know that they feel heard, understood, and are optimistic about outcomes.”
Kimberly Choo, Operations Manager
Kimberly is the behind-the-scenes details guru at Graphic Footprints. With years of professional detail-wrangling under her belt, she has professional experience ranging from higher education and corporate training to high-tech companies, property management, and human resource development. Kimberly's favorite moments are with her family on the bike trails or the ski slopes, and being in the classroom teaching Spanish or Latin.
Richard Chu, Graphic Designer
Richard has a significant hand in the digital files we create at Graphic Footprints. He is a wizard when it comes to the Adobe Creative Cloud, and has developed marketing collateral and media kits, print publications, and business logos. While designing from concept to final product is part of his toolkit, Richard also excels at honing in on details and always delivers a high-quality product. In his spare time, he enjoys reading and cooking.
Alicia Bramlett
Alicia is a graphic facilitator, artist, and traveler. Her experience focuses on process design and graphic facilitation for corporations, communities, and NGOs. Her ability to tell an emotional and compelling story through simple images is what sets her apart in the field. Alicia's drawings have been spotted on walls at the World Economic Forum, Inc 5000, Google, and other organizations around the world.
Alece Birnbach
Alece brings experience as a fine artist, illustrator and 20 years as an advertising art director to her work. Her background in advertising and client service for large agencies gives her a marketing expertise that matches her skills as a successful commercial illustrator. This unique combination of skills and experience gives Alece the ability to listen differently to what clients need and successfully capture and organize ideas quickly with sustainable outcomes in mind. Alece has created live maps of keynotes, concurrent sessions and panel discussions, board retreats, and vision and planning meetings.
Michelle Boos-Stone
Michelle is an experienced graphic recorder who brings her unique perspective as a business strategist and facilitator to her engagements. She utilizes visual communication in her work to help individuals and teams grasp complex concepts through the use of bold maps and visuals, creating a “picture” of what the group is hearing and creating together. With over 20 years of experience, Michelle is highly professional yet casually unorthodox in her methods. Simply said, she just does it differently.
Dayna Bowers
Dayna is a graphic recorder, illustrator, and improv coach based in Los Angeles. Dayna brings her illustration and improv skills to her work in graphic recording by listening deeply to capture the content of workshops in real time using stunning large-scale graphics and lettering. She holds a B.A. in Communication from UNC Chapel Hill and received her training in improv from both Groundlings and the UCB theatre in Los Angeles.
Giselle Chow
Giselle’s area of expertise is the creation of large-scale drawings and graphics in real time that enable participants to see their work, identify patterns, retain information, and make connections. Her work is informed by appreciative inquiry, narrative theory, design thinking, and participatory decision-making. She is particularly interested in what can occur when groups of disparate thinkers are engaged in complex work, searching for alignment and possible solutions. Her work is evenly split between corporations, non-profits, schools, and government agencies.
Julie Primozich
Julie is an award-winning print designer and art director with extensive experience in creative strategy development and managing teams of creative professionals. She brings her fine art knowledge of mediums and techniques to graphic recording to truly transform the work through vivid color and imagery. Julie finds joy in enhancing communication environments through the practice of graphic recording. An experienced artist in her own right, her work utilizes humor, whimsy, and vibrant color palettes to capture an idea.
Anthony Weeks
Anthony is an illustrator, documentary filmmaker, and visual storyteller based in San Francisco, CA. He has more than 16 years of experience working with senior-level product and strategy development teams to think visually and turn data into stories. In the role of public listener and illustrator, Anthony collaborates with project teams to create visually rich chronicles and murals of conversations in real time. His visual storytelling facilitates dialogue, engages participation, clarifies vision, and animates the process of ideation.
Our Network
Strong collaborations keep us on our toes and consistently push us to be better at what we do. We have a wide network of highly experienced and talented individuals (facilitators, strategists, process designers, and visual storytellers) and will create the best team for your needs.