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Visual Thinking Luftwaffe Style
In this episode, we are exploring Lars Bartschat's journey from a serviceman with the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force to a visual thinker in the defense industry and his learning from his years of military service. Lars shares how the OODA loop can be applied anywhere tells us about how visual thinking is in fact an integrated practice in the military and his war stories of applying visual thinking in the collaborative context.
Lars Bartschat
Lars is a visual thinker with a very diverse background. After finishing his training as an IT specialist he joined the German Air Force as an officer candidate. He acquired his diploma in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the University of the Armed Forces, Munich. During his time in the Air Force, his jobs were platoon leader, teacher, and air space manager, always working in multi-national settings.
Leaving the military as Captain (retired) and having acquired his MBA at the University of Muenster, he joined the defense industry in Germany, where he took up a job as program manager and is now employing visual thinking tools in various settings: analyzing and developing business strategies, facilitating workshops or the development of concepts for new products and services. Lars is the co-author of the lernOS Sketchnoting guide, available in English and German as an open-source (CC-BY) self-organized way into visual thinking and sketchnoting.
His side business is a niche consulting agency where he teaches the idea of visual thinking or acts as a visual consultant.
You can contact Lars via his website at https://lars-bartschat.de (German), LinkedIn, or Email.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lars-bartschat/
http://lernos-sketchnoting.de/ (German guide)
http://lernos-sketchnoting.org/ (English guide)
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