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About the guest
Szilard Strenner is the CEO and senior consultant at Grafacity Visual Services, specializing in visual facilitation and organizational development. With over 30 years of experience, he helps teams navigate change through innovative visual methods. An active member of the International Forum of Visual Practitioners, Szilard combines artistic skills and systems thinking to make ideas visible and facilitate effective decision-making. Learn more about him on his expert page.
Summary
Most org design work disappears the moment the workshop ends.
In this episode, Szilard Strenner explains how visual facilitation turns strategy into something people can actually see, engage with, and remember.
Instead of flipping through forgotten slide decks or buried documents, visual facilitation uses large-scale, pre-designed templates and real-time visual recording to help teams think together, align faster, and retain decisions.
The key idea:
👉 Great facilitation isn’t about what happens in the room—it’s about what’s designed before it.
Szilard shares how:
- Visual structures guide thinking and decision-making
- Physical interaction (moving cards, filling space) drives engagement
- Preparation (not improvisation) is what makes facilitation effective
- Strategy can live beyond the workshop as a shared, visual “one-pager” across the business
For leaders doing org design, this is a shift from:
- Slides → Shared artefacts
- Talking → Co-creating
- Outputs → Alignment
Transcript
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Functionly empowers organizations to enhance their visual facilitation processes by providing a structured framework for designing and implementing organizational strategies. With its user-friendly tools, Functionly enables teams to visualize their goals, streamline collaboration, and maintain alignment across departments. By integrating visual templates and real-time updates, Functionly ensures that all team members stay engaged and informed throughout the organizational design journey, allowing for seamless adaptation to change and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
