Biography
Brian Tarallo is the managing director of Lizard Brain. His experience and education in business and government and artistic ability bring out the best results from his clients. He is a facilitator who specializes in visual methods and virtual meetings. He serves clients through illustrating their visions, seeing their strategies, and mapping their futures. He works with the healthcare, federal and state government, defense, engineering, and education, and consulting industries. He has served as a business process improvement manager for a federal agency, an operations manager and later a senior consultant for a Washington, DC-based consulting firm, an associate and later an associate partner for a Washington, DC-based engineering firm, a project manager and an operations manager for a national development firm, and a development volunteer for the U.S. Peace Corps.
18 years of experience in facilitation, strategic planning, leadership development and training, organizational development, team development, and visual consulting
MBA focusing in development and finance, Arizona State University
Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF), International Association of Facilitators (IAF)
Certified Virtual Facilitator (CVF), International Institute for Facilitation (INIFAC)
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) Master Practitioner, one of 160 globally
Certified to deliver the FIRO-B Assessment and the Grove Team Performance Model (TPM)
Trainer and associate, the Grove Consultants International
Contributing author, “The World of Visual Facilitation”; Blijsie, Hamons, & Smith; 2019
Author, “Surviving the Horror of Online Meetings”; 2021
Founder, OGSystems Visioneering Team
Founder, NOVA Scribes
Member and presenter, International Forum of Visual Practitioners (IFVP)
Member and presenter, Mid-Atlantic Facilitators' Network (MAFN)
Project Management Professional (PMP), Project Management Institute (PMI)
TEDx speaker, TEDxLizardCreek 2014
Experienced in delivering Red Team Facilitation, Blue Ocean Strategy, the Grove Consultants’ Strategic Visioning, Generative Scribing, Kinesthetic Modeling, Crucial Conversations, the Thomas-Kilmann Conflict Mode Instrument, the Organizational Cultural Assessment Indicator, Social Styles, the Tuckman Model of Team Development, and Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team
