Learn how to visualize your ideas and make team collaboration more effective.
Michigan Technology Services offers Visual Thinking for Effective Collaboration and instructor-led AI and Agile training and coaching through partnerships with Certified Scrum Trainers and Enterprise Coaches, like Stuart Young. Our training takes place at our location in the Farmington Hills/Novi area, 20 miles outside of Detroit, or at your location anywhere around the world. Our Visualization workshops and coaching sessions can also be offered online/virtually, reducing your need to travel.
Whether you wish to enhance visual thinking skills, simplify messaging and create a shared vision, gain the confidence you need to draw live in front of an audience, or engage key stakeholders with a captivating visualizations, our Visual Thinking for Effective Collaboration micro workshop is for you.
Visual Thinking for Effective Collaboration brings together over 20 years of proven tools and techniques to help you communicate ideas clearly, align teams faster, and make better decisions.
This highly interactive four-hour Scrum Alliance Microcredential equips you with practical visual skills that go beyond traditional note-taking. You’ll learn how to make the invisible visible, turning conversations into shared understanding and helping teams navigate complexity with clarity and confidence.
Move beyond simple bullet points and the canned PowerPoint presentation.
This course builds your visual literacy by breaking the myth that visual thinking requires artistic talent. Instead, you’ll discover simple, practical techniques you can immediately use to support collaboration, facilitate discussions, and turn ideas into impact.
This isn’t about learning to draw. It’s about learning to think, communicate, and collaborate more effectively.
About your workshop facilitator:
Stuart Young – Live Illustrator, Business Visualizer and Trainer
Stuart is a professional trainer, consultant and visual practitioner. He specializes in Agile, Product, Visual Facilitation and Emotional intelligence, offering a range of certified and non-certified training programs complemented by Visual Storytelling services. He has harnessed his creative skills to translate concepts and processes into engaging visuals during workshops, events and conferences. By combining both creative and analytical skills Stuart contributes to team visioning/ planning workshops and retrospectives by offering captivating visuals that crystallize ideas and learning.
His mission is to inspire growth, foster resilience, and empower teams to navigate complexity with confidence, enabling individuals to connect, communicate, and collaborate more effectively.
Stuart is co-author of No One Is Coming to Save You, a book exploring the human skills needed to thrive in modern work, including visual thinking, storytelling, communication, and collaboration.
Join us and learn about visual thinking.
Visual Thinking for Effective Collaboration Workshop Topics:
What You’ll Get
Instruction from a Certified Scrum Trainer and Visual Thinking practitioner
Learn directly from the course author using proven, real-world techniques.
Visual Thinking foundations
Understand visual literacy and how visuals improve clarity, alignment, and communication.
Practical tools and frameworks
Use simple visual structures and tools to organise ideas and support team collaboration.
A repeatable visual vocabulary
Build clear icons and metaphors to represent ideas, systems, and abstract concepts.
Real-time visual facilitation skills
Capture conversations live and help teams reach shared understanding faster.
Hands-on practice and exercises
Apply visual thinking techniques to improve alignment, problem-solving, and communication.
Who Should Attend
This course is ideal for professionals who want to improve communication, alignment, and collaboration using visual thinking, including:
- Scrum Masters, Agile Coaches, and Facilitators
- Product Owners and Product Managers
- Team Leads, Managers, and Leaders
- Developers, Designers, and cross-functional team members
- Trainers, Consultants, and anyone who facilitates workshops or meetings
No artistic ability is required—visual thinking is a communication skill, not an art form.
Schedule:
Our June 2026 Visual Thinking for Effective Collaboration micro-workshop, taught by Stuart Young, is Monday and Tuesday, June 8 and 9, 2026. The regular course fee is $390/student, but early enrollment prior to June 1, is $350/student. While we are located in Farmington Hills the Visual Thinking for Effective Collaboration micro-workshop will be instructor led, live and online.
Our September 2026 Visual Thinking for Effective Collaboration micro-workshop, taught by Stuart Young, is Wednesday and Thursday, September 16 and 17, 2026. The regular course fee is $390/student, but early enrollment prior to September 9, is $350/student. While we are located in Farmington Hills the Visual Thinking for Effective Collaboration micro-workshop will be instructor led, live and online.
** Note ** Participants rave about Stuart’s workshops.
Want a four-hour or one or two day Visual Thinking workshop for your organization? We can help.
Private classes for groups are available upon request. Call 248-489-0408 for details.
Course Schedule
Private, Corporate or Group Training Available
Early-Bird Price: $350
Regular Price: $390
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For complete information on AI, Agile and Scrum Training classes or to request a class date contact Michigan Technology Services. 248-489-0408