Eileen Clegg, MA, FRSA, is founder of the company Visual Insight, working with top leadership for Fortune 100 companies and nonprofits to use imagination in their planning and execution. Using large-scale graphics and visual storytelling, she helps organizations leverage individuals’ creativity, knowledge and intuition to mobilize toward shared aspirations.
Her Visual Insight clients include top leadership of IBM, Telenor (Youth Summit for the Nobel Peace Prize), Microsoft, Federal Health Futures (a consortium of federal health agencies), NetApp, Kaiser Permanente, Rockefeller Foundation, Art Center College of Design, O’Reilly Media, Pfizer, Gilead BioSciences, American Society of Training and Development, and the Gates Foundation.
Eileen was a daily newspaper journalist before a career change led her to Institute for the Future, where large-scale graphics were used in futures forecasting. She developed her unique visual practice in 2001. She has written and illustrated numerous books on the topics of women, leadership and creativity. She is known for her large-scale timeline murals that tell history in murals, including Co-Evolution of Human and Tool Systems and Women Inventors and Innovators.
Eileen completed her B.A. degree in Philosophy at U.C. Berkeley and M.A. in Psychology with a focus on Jungian Symbols at Sonoma State University. She is a fellow in the Royal Society for the Encouragement of the Arts (the RSA) in London.
Her editorial support for People Centered Internet brings her back to her journalism roots.