ASTDBR Monthly Meeting: I See What You’re Saying – Basic Cartooning for Artistically-Challenged Trainers

In this session, you will learn to:

• Think more visually and creatively by altering your perspectives.
  
• Enhance your presentations with simple, fun visuals that you create in real time.
  
• Use clichés, idioms and industry jargon as springboards to a deeper understanding of problems and opportunities within your organizations.
  

Mike Artell is an award-winning children’s book author, illustrator and TV cartoonist. Mike’s body of work includes more than 35 nationally-recognized picture books, wordplay books, how-to books and non-fiction books. Mike has also written and illustrated teacher and parent resource books on subjects as diverse as ecology, parties, cartooning and young authorship. In addition
to his work as an author and illustrator, Mike also has extensive experience as:

- A musician who plays guitar, keyboard and blues harmonica.
- A storyteller who regularly performs original poems and tales.
- A newspaper editorial cartoonist.
- A magazine and greeting card writer and cartoonist.
- A keynote speaker and humorist.
- The host of his own television cartooning show.

Many of Mike’s books have been award-winners. Most recently, Mike’s book, PETITE ROUGE - A Cajun Red Riding Hood was named by the National Association of Elementary School Principals as its 2009 Read Aloud Book of the Year. PETITE ROUGE has also become a musical theatre production which has been staged at many theatres across the U.S. and in England.  Mike’s astronomy book titled, STARRY SKIES, was named a Best Science Book For Children by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and Mike’s books have also been named “Pick of the Lists” by Publisher’s Weekly, “Top 100” by Curriculum Administrator Magazine and “Teacher’s Choice” by Learning Magazine.

Mike is a popular platform speaker and has addressed scores of major educational, business and healthcare organizations on the subjects of humor and creativity and their importance to our personal and professional lives. Mike has a B.A. in Marketing from Southeastern Louisiana.