Hello! I’m Christy Gharbo, founder of VizualWorx, and I’m on a mission to help individuals, groups, and organizations turn ideas into action.
Equipped with refillable markers, giant rolls of paper, my trusty iPad and Apple pencil, a virtual collaboration board, and a powerful visual thinking toolkit, I help you externalize your thinking and make your ideas visible – to yourself and to share with others. I help you think – visually – and figure things out. That might mean solving a problem, making a decision, expanding your ideas, mapping out a process or procedure, setting goals, and/or creating an action plan. Moving ideas out of your head and onto paper allows you to “see what you mean” and generate more ideas, organize information, and make connections. This process of “making meaning” helps you gain clarity, see the big picture, make informed decisions, take action to achieve your goals, and share your message with others.
Christy is a genius at taking numerous disparate thoughts, ideas, and strategic inputs and boiling them down to their essence and then representing them visually in a simple, connected, compelling and brilliant manner.
Mindi Sullivan, Senior Director, Global People Experience, d-wise
As soon as I saw one of Christy’s visuals I knew this was something I wanted to experience! The visual aspect kept me engaged and helped facilitate my thought process but Christy was the tool that pulled the information out of me. The whole process was a facilitation of communication that put our firm on a journey of growth. By seeing it being written / drawn / diagrammed in real time I literally had my ideas visualized so the team could work through good ideas, bad ideas and evolving changes to make them all great in execution. It’s some of the most worthwhile time and money we have spent.
Lauren Erickson, CFP® CSRIC™, Erickson Advisors
Working with Christy was one of the best gifts I’ve ever received. The depth of her listening was a wonderful gift, allowing me to pull out and examine all the flying threads of intention, ambition, dreams. Without judgment she sorted, recorded, and made things beautifully visible outside my head and heart. The clean, lovely way she represented them on paper created a roadmap that stayed on my office wall for several years, allowing me to be my own navigator, my own reality-checker. Now I have it memorized. When I struggle with direction, or need inspiration, it’s right in front of me, in all its complexity… and simplicity. I’m still working on my dreams and building my practice with the intention she helped clarify.
Dani Black, Owner & Consultant, Bigger Tables Culinary and Service Consulting
Starting up a new venture is hard enough – but when it’s a brand new idea that’s never been created, it brings the mental chaos to a whole new level. I am SO glad that I was introduced to Christy and VizualWorx when I was just beginning the journey! With her insightful questions and gentle prompts, Christy was able to reach into my brain and magically untangle everything into a beautiful, vivid image of what our path forward could and should look like. By the end of our session, I’d made decisions that have shaped everything we have created since – and I am forever grateful!
Christy is a master of her craft. She’s a visual linguist that puts your disorganized thoughts, ideas and dreams to paper in a way that helps you see what your focus should be, and how to get there. A few years ago after a career in food, followed by association management, event planning, and advertising, I still didn’t know what I wanted to be when I grew up. We had a mapping session where Christy pulled all of the relevant life experiences out of me and put them to paper in a way that made finding the right career path attainable with specific action steps. Today, looking at our visual mapping session from three years ago I’m so tickled to see what I’m doing now, commercial real estate with businesses in my local community, and how many of those details emerged during our mapping session that pushed me here. I have either achieved or am well-on-my-way to achieving all of the items on my career wants list. Time with Christy is so valuable and I highly recommend that you stop scratching your head right now, and get VizualWorx to help you unpack your problems and realize your dreams!
Chela Tu, Commercial Real Estate Broker, Durham, NC
