Graphic note taker: Deirdre Crowley
Deirdre Crowley is the founder of Crowley & Co., a Washington, DC-based consultancy that helps clients to achieve strategic success through effective facilitation and collaborative visual tools. Crowley & Co. consists of a broad network of associates including graphic facilitators, designers and strategic planning experts. It is this strong partner-based approach that enables Crowley & Co. to respond to a wide range of client needs across corporate, military, government and non-profit sectors in Washington and around the world (including Asia, Europe, Africa and Latin America).
Prior to founding Crowley & Co. in 2004, Ms. Crowley was a senior consultant for The Grove Consultants International in San Francisco, California. Together with the Grove Consultants International, Ms. Crowley has been at the forefront of the visual practitioner movement in establishing the use of communication design techniques throughout corporations, non-profits and government agencies.
Ms. Crowley’s clients include Microsoft, M&M Mars, the Lance Armstrong Foundation, Hewlett-Packard Company, Novozymes, the President’s Cancer Panel and the United States Pentagon Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Today Ms. Crowley is an associate senior consultant with The Grove Consultants International. She is also a founding partner of Strategy Arts, a Philadelphia-Based strategy consulting firm, and an associate staff member of the Center for Evidence-Based Education in Princeton, New Jersey.
Ms. Crowley holds a BA in Education and English from Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island (USA). She spent four years with the United States Peace Corps in Jamaica where she worked as a trainer for health sector volunteers.
