About
Based in Washington, D.C., Deirdre Crowley founded Crowley & Company in 2005 and has since facilitated strategic planning processes and conducted workshops throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America and North America. She has become a recognized leader and innovator in the increasingly critical field of graphic facilitation and strategic visioning through her commitment to helping groups move from an understanding of current realities to the ultimate achievement of their goals and visions.
Deirdre’s government client list ranges from the US Department of Defense to the National Institutes of Health, the President’s Cancer Panel, the Ministry of Education of Guatemala, and the Ministry of Health of Tanzania. Deirdre also works with a broad range of private sector clients that includes Nike, Deloitte, Microsoft, Ford Motor Company, Hilton Worldwide, Fisher-Price and GlaxoSmithKline. She and her associates at Crowley & Company have also worked with several non-profit organizations ranging from The Nature Conservancy to the National Breast Cancer Coalition and UNESCO. Crowley & Company’s communication design work has been used in presentations to Congress and to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and has been reproduced in multiple languages around the world.
Deirdre has been instrumental in advancing the standards of the graphic facilitation profession, creating The Graphic Facilitation University program for the Mid-Atlantic Facilitators Workshop in 2008. She is also a founding partner of the Philadelphia-based consulting firm Strategy Arts; a senior associate with The Grove Consultants International in San Francisco; and an associate staff member of the Center for Evidence-Based Education in Princeton, New Jersey.
Deirdre received her BA in Education and English from Providence College in Providence, Rhode Island. She worked for the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and Citizens Bank prior to four years of service as a volunteer and trainer with the US Peace Corps in Jamaica. She entered the field of graphic facilitation in 1994 while working for David Sibbet and The Grove Consultants International in San Francisco, California. Deirdre and her husband Jim live in Annandale, Virginia, a suburb of Washington, DC.