Christine Martell, Principal
Christine is in charge of the creative path and marketing direction for VisualsSpeak. This includes research, conceptualization, product design and development of VisualsSpeak products and services. It also involves marketing the VisualsSpeak approach to prospective users and certifying professional facilitators to use the tool.individuals.
Christine is an accomplished consultant, public speaker and artist with more than 25 years of professional experience. The VisualsSpeak tool she developed has been used by corporate trainers, independent consultants, small- and medium-size businesses, global corporations, non-profits, educational institutions, and organizations focused on intercultural communications.
Christine earned a bachelor of fine arts in textiles in 1982 at the Rhode Island School of Design. Over the next decade, she worked primarily as a product artist, exhibiting and attracting awards for her work in a wide variety of venues across the United States.
In 1995, Christine made the transition from a product artist to a process artist, concentrating on helping others to discover the value inherent in the process of creating art. She served as a facilitator at the Penland School of Craft in North Carolina, where she developed ways to help art students reduce their creative anxiety and counseled them on issues related to classes and student affairs.
Christine earned a master’s degree in education from Portland State University in 2004, where she researched the benefits of visual communication as a training tool. She holds certificates of completion in a variety of training & development topics including intercultural training, multi-media and Web-based training, and management of training.
Christine started VisualsSpeak in 2005 as a way of bringing the VisualsSpeak approach to a broad range of audiences. She is passionate about opening up the whole person so people can really be appreciated for who they are, and feels she is throwing life lines to people who really need to discover new openings.
Tom Tiernan, Co-Owner
Tom is our chief photographer, playing a key role in developing VisualsSpeak products and services.
Tom joined VisualsSpeak in June 2005, but his passion for photography goes back to the mid-1960s. At VisualsSpeak he combines the service and business parts of himself.
Tom has worked in a variety of businesses, from operating a seafood market to owning his own windsurfing shop, and eventually to real estate developer and independent investor.
He has taught English as a Second Language (ESL) to adults since 2001. He is a participant in PeaceTrees Vietnam, which works alongside Vietnamese people to implement environmental and community restoration projects in the Quang Tri Province of Vietnam. He has also volunteered for the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and The Clothesline Project, both based on Cape Cod, Mass.
