Sue Stockdale talks to Tanmay Vora about how he developed his skill in creating visual notes, through his curiosity and interest in learning. He illustrates and shares great ideas in the form of sketchnotes that combine the topics of leadership, learning and change.

Tanmay Vora is a senior business leader with two decades of diverse global experience, author of three international books and illustrator of best-selling books. As Founder of QAspire Consulting, he helps individuals, teams and organizations deliver high-performance through process consulting, visual facilitation, leadership development, strategic capability building and coaching interventions.

He is passionate about leveraging visual thinking for learning, innovation and change. He illustrates and shares great ideas worth sharing in form of sketchnotes and offers graphical recording services to events, authors and organizations worldwide. He also teaches the magic of visual thinking through interactive workshops.

Contact Tanmay at his website www.qaspire.com

Twitter www.twitter.com/tnvora

Facebook www.facebook.com/tnvora

Instagram www.instagram.com/tnvora

LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tnvora

Key quotes in this podcast:

[05.56] "I sat down with a piece of paper and a pen, and I said, what do I already have as an inventory of skills? I wrote down the skills on a piece of paper and circled them around. And then almost magically. I saw those two circles coming together and forming a small intersection. The two words that I wrote was technology and writing. And I say that, what if I bring these two circles together and see where it intersects?"

[07:31] "How do you climb a mountain? I would say that don't try to climb it straight in a linear fashion, but try to sort of crisscross your way on the top of the mountain".

[10.51] "I think that lot of people equate learning with outcomes and they say that if I learn this, what am I going to get in return?"

[12.40] "Inspiration is like a seed that grows inside of you, but not without soil and not without the sunlight. The analogy that I often use is that if inspiration is the seed, then we need sunlight".

[14.28] "So I feel that being prepared, being consistent and showing up in your pursuit every single day, irrespective of whether you're inspired or not, I think gets the inspiration going."

[17.48] "I try to sort of circumvent the risk of judgment, by saying that if this is going to help a lot of people, I can't go wrong'.

[20.03] 'Wisdom happens when we take a step back and start reflecting on what we've done".

[24.21] "My pursuit is to take people back into that stage of their life when they were fearless in making the mark on a piece of paper. This is I think the core of why I do what I do."

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