Survey Results : What's Your Role?

Results from our March poll...

QUESTION: "What role do you primarily play with your clients?"

Are you working with executives as a strategist?

Are you a consultant on a particular subject or industry who uses graphic facilitation as a tool? Are you looked to as a facilitator who guides a group through a process?

Do you serve as a visual communicator turning ideas into images? Are you primarily an illustrator creating images that tell a story?

Or a you an artist, bringing your personal vision to life through any means necessary?

RESPONSES
48% - As a Visual Communicator
22% - As a Facilitator
13% - As a Strategist
11% - As a Consultant
  4% - As an Illustrator
  2% - As an Artist

We heard from practicing graphic facilitators in Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States. Many of the 46 respondants replied that it was very difficult to choose one primary role, since every project and every client requires a nuanced approach, and the skills to deliver require constant growth and evolution.

Here is a synopsis of the experiences from the field, in the words of some of our readers.