Our logo

Ideas underpinning our Logo

It is through people engaging in conversation, starting with sitting in a circle or around small tables, about questions that matter that constructive approaches to tackling complex issues ‘just happen.’

As you may appreciate there is something special about people sitting in circles, large or small, facing each other.

The colours of the questions represent the colourful diversity of the participants – the more the merrier!

And the ‘empty’ Solutions is to illustrate that this will be filled through conversing about the key questions at the heart of a matter. 

Brief background story

This logo emerged, as you may suspect, from conversation.

There were two main ones. The first was when Alan was a member of a group in Australia which was promoting a computer based approach to brainstorming, strategic planning and group learning.

 He recalls:

 We spent an afternoon using this device to explore ideas for arriving at a business name for our services. Working on the premises that:

 .  the name we were after would emerge through harvesting the collective intelligence of all participants

 . we could assure everyone who used our services that they would very likely have a productive and enjoyable experience.

 We came up with hundreds of possibilities. Then boiled them to a short list  and down through 5, 4, 3 2, 1 from which out popped:

                       MultiMind Solutions  – to everyone’s delight.

 Nobody had anything even closely similar in mind prior to this exercise!

The project for which this name was created was not pursued. And so Alan requested that he be given ownership of it, to which the others agreed.

And when he moved to Hong Kong Alan decided to re-create a new logo (and website).

This was done with the very able assistance of his colleague and friend Alexandra Yung of Creasians.

Through, of course, extended conversation with her and her able staff members, in order from them to depict graphically what Alan wished to convey.