0731 | Why Leaders Need Visual Intelligence with Amy Herman

0731 | Why Leaders Need Visual Intelligence with Amy Herman

Amy E. Herman is the author of Visual Intelligence and the creator of The Art of Perception course, where she uses works of art to train police officers, medical professions, and everyone else how to be more effective on the job, more empathetic toward their loved ones, and more alert to the trove of possibilities and threats all around them. In this interview, we discuss why we miss so much of the world around us, and who we can see (and think) better.

[Listen in iTunes] [Listen on Stitcher]

In This episode, You’ll Learn:

  • Why we see but we don’t observe
  • How what’s missing often clues us to what’s really happening
  • How to start growing your visual intelligence

Resources Mentioned In This Episode:

Enjoy This Episode?
If you enjoyed the show, please rate it on iTunes or Stitcher and write a brief review. That would really help get the word out and raise the visibility of the show.

HOME_AboutDavidBurkus

About the author

David Burkus is an organizational psychologist, keynote speaker, and bestselling author of five books on leadership and teamwork.

Recommended Reading

0622 | Mike Figliuolo

Mike Figliuolo is the Founder and Managing Director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC – a leadership development and training firm. He’s also the author of Lead Inside the Box and One Piece of Paper. Mike graduated as an Honor Graduate from West Point and served in the US Army. He was a consultant with McKinsey & Co. […]

0621 | Josh Davis

Josh Davis, Ph.D., is the director of research and lead professor at the NeuroLeadership Institute, a global institute dedicated to synthesizing scientific research and guiding its use in the business and leadership domains. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, and Barnard College of Columbia University. He is the author of Two Awesome […]

0818 | Finding, Creating, and Using Thresholds to Create Change with David Gray

Having been involved in a lot of well-intentioned innovation and change initiatives in industry, government and small businesses, Dave Gray noticed that people have an astonishing ability to miscommunicate and misunderstand one another, and often work at cross-purposes to the very things they are trying to accomplish. In 1993 He founded XPLANE, the visual thinking […]

Scroll to Top