Chad Moore

Making the invisible visible

Visual sensemaking and practical clarity for teams doing complex, human work.

Live visual summary: Navigating the Age of Chaos
Created during a webinar exploring the BANI framework and the shifts that help people act amid uncertainty.

I turn your events, talks, workshops, and community conversations into clear visual records — helping people see the ideas, patterns, and next steps that might otherwise get lost in the room.I work with facilitators, nonprofits, community groups, and mission driven teams — in person or virtually.

How we work together

  1. Discovery call We talk about your event or session: its purpose, participants, desired outcomes, and what you want people to carry forward afterward. We’ll also cover format, logistics, and where the final visual will live.

  2. Brief and visual plan Before the session, I review your agenda, speaker materials, key language, and any context that will help me listen well. Together we decide whether the work is best captured digitally, on a large physical surface, or as a post-session visual summary.

  3. Live visual sensemaking During your event, talk, workshop, or conversation, I listen for central ideas, patterns, tensions, stories, and decisions—then translate them into a clear visual in real time.

  4. Delivery You receive a high-resolution digital file of the finished work for sharing, reflection, reporting, or future planning. Physical recordings can also be photographed or scanned for digital use.

Available for in-person and virtual sessions. Especially with nonprofits, community groups, facilitators, and mission-driven teams.Projects begin at $600. Final pricing depends on session length, format, travel, and deliverables.

Live visual note-taking: "How to Have a Better Conversation"
Created in real time during a talk by Celeste Headlee, capturing practical ideas about listening, curiosity, brevity, and making room for another person’s experience.

Visual summary: "A Persuasive Story Pattern"
A compact visual interpretation of Nancy Duarte’s framework for moving an audience from inspiration to commitment and action.

Large-format visual synthesis: "Palaces for the People"
A whiteboard visual created while listening to 99% Invisible explore social infrastructure—the everyday places and institutions that help communities connect.

Live story capture: “Wisteria Always Comes Back
A visual record of a live personal story, capturing its images, movement, and central turn.

Clarity for Complex Human Work

I’m also exploring ways to help mission-driven teams get clearer about how work moves across people, partners, and departments.Especially when ownership, communication, and handoffs get fuzzy.This may involve interviews, mapping, facilitated alignment, and practical next steps. I’m currently speaking with nonprofit leaders to shape this work around real needs.

About Chad Moore

I’ve spent more than two decades helping creative and technical teams make complicated work more understandable. From game development and digital products to workshops, strategy, and delivery.I’m drawn to the moment when a group begins to see the same thing clearly. Visual sensemaking brings together my background in facilitation, storytelling, and design.