Eileen M. Clegg

Eileen Clegg is a visual journalist and founder of the company Visual Insight (www.visualinsight.net), creating visual language communications that convey the essence of complex ideas so they are felt as well as understood. Her clients have included IBM’s top leadership, Pfizer, Microsoft, Starbucks, Art Center College of Design, Kaiser Permanente, Edwards Lifesciences, U.S. Defense Acquisition University, O’Reilly Media, and the Gates Foundation. She is a cofounder of Future of Talent (www.futureoftalent.org), a spin-off from her work at Institute for the Future (www.iftf.org), in Palo Alto, California where she was a researcher in learning from 1999-2002. Before that, Eileen was a daily newspaper journalist for 20 years with special emphasis on education and environment. She has published and/or illustrated numerous books. She conducts research on the practice of visual communication with anthropologist Bonnie DeVarco www.shapeofthought.com. One of her ongoing current projects is a 100-year history/future map visually demonstrating the interrelationship of trends in technology, business, politics, education, psychology and other disciplines: www.engelbartmural.com. She has a B.A. degree in Philosophy from University of California, Berkeley. eileen@visualinsight.net. Eileen lives in Bodega Bay, California with her husband, James, a scientist at U.C. Davis’s Bodega Marine Lab.