A Visual Approach is a woman-founded firm specializing in graphic recording, group facilitation, and strategic illustration. We collaborate with clients to draw out ideas and make them shine. Whether you’re generating new ideas, developing a vision, strategizing, or sharing solutions, skillful facilitation and visual tools will ease the way, making it easier to engage with big ideas, see connections, and make decisions.

Our team at A Visual Approach brings more than twenty-five years of leading, working within, and collaborating with organizations locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. We work within diverse fields including higher education, financial services, public health, racial equity, housing & food insecurity, rural community development, beloved/next economy, healthcare, education equity, philanthropy, and reproductive justice.

A Visual Approach is co-directed by Hope Tyson and Jaclyn Gilstrap and is based in Durham, North Carolina.