Hi everyone - I'm Ben and live in Melbourne, Australia. Have had quite the  journey with Miro over the past couple of years as it rapidly became the primary tool for my consulting / coaching work.

I'm excited by it’s potential and the ecosystem of thinkers/designers/practitioners emerging around it. 

Describing exactly what I do in letters and words is a continual struggle () ...my current version runs something along the lines of helping organisations and teams make sense of who they are and their strategy, innovate and communicate with the world.

I love the creative process of exploring ideas, crafting narratives and discovering / experiencing / creating  

Hi Miro adventurers!

I’m Rohi from India. I’m a doctor, writer, editor and meditation coach.

I discovered Miro a few days ago and still learning how to use it. One of my goals is to use Miro to write a series of short and fun nonfiction books on different aspects of meditation and self-development.

I hope to connect with other writers and share tips and tricks.

*One of my immediate questions: What are the areas in which Miro is better than Microsoft Word?*

Many smiles and much metta,
Rohi

Hi everyone! I’m Marissa, I recently joined Miro as the new Community Lead over programs for professional service providers (PSPs), such as the Miro Professional Network (MPN) and Miro Experts. 

 I’m currently working to redevelop the MPN and Experts programs to bring PSPs an improved member experience, better benefits, and brand new digital community channels where you can connect directly with one another and with us (the Miro team!).

I’m so excited to be here and get to know all of you! I can’t wait to build something incredible together! 

Hi Everyone!! Hope your all doing well!!

Im Shane and i work as a Learning and Development Partner for an Agile consultancy based in Yorkshire (UK) 

Most of my career has been in delivering engaging face-to-face learning experiences and workshops. However, when the pandemic hit i found myself trying to replicate that same immersive experience digitally and for awhile it was tough……….I then came across Miro and it really did change the way i deliver my sessions! although i’m still a huge fan of face-to-face i’m also now a fan of using Miro. 

Im happy to connect and talk to anyone with interests in either learning and development and/or Agile project management.  

Hello, My name is Fred,

I work at the isle of Texel in the netherlands. I am looking forward to collaborating more efficiently with my colleagues through Miro.

Hi Miro Community! 

Im Artur, currently in Poland. Coming from automotive sales, marketing, and consulting, I am a facilitator and business agility coach.

Skills and knowledge of servant leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency.

Recently, I started to design Retrospective templates and themes here, on Miroverse. 
 

Hello Miro entusiast, 

I’m Annika, Scrum Master and Agile Coach at MaibornWolff in Munich. In my job I support individuals, teams, and organizations to develop an agile mindset and create more valuable work together.

I have been using Miro for almost three years now and couldn’t imagine doing my work without it anymore. From team retrospectives, to agile training, I create everything in Miro. My creativity has no limits here and the people I work with benefit a lot from it. 

Looking forward to getting inspiration from you and sharing mine with you. 

Connect with me here on Linkedin.

Hellooo, Mirobro! 

My name is Lera and I am a UX Researcher and Product Manager. (looking for new job now;)) Also I have experience of my oun business (hairsalon).

I'm excited to see all of you, creative person! I huge lover of Miro, usually use it for research projects, brainstorm, facilitation session or some group activity.

Personally I love travel, have a camperVan, love activity and people, all the time I’m happy meet new people!

Text me here or in Linkedin 

Hello Miro Community!

My name is Hannah Kopytko and I am a technology instructor at my provincial Polytechnic.  

Prior to my career as an educator, I worked as a systems developer and lived on my Miro boards.  Miro was introduced to me by @Robert Johnson (hi Rob!) when we were working together and I was forever changed. I was opened to a world of online collaboration like never before!

As a creative individual with a background in design, I was naturally attracted to Miro.  The intuitive design, colourful objects, and powerful features give me the freedom to visualize complex ideas with ease (and easily impress anyone I am presenting to!).  I now use Miro in the classroom and encourage students to check it out whenever they can as I feel it is a vital tool for our modern industry. 

I joined this community in hopes to connect with like-minded individuals and expand my knowledge and skillset with Miro.  Outside of Miro and work I enjoy cooking , gaming, reading, and gardening. Looking forward to connecting with you all!

Hannah Banana 

Hello

I’m a business coach, practicing out of Southampton, UK. I’m experienced in the high performance space (ie Brendon Burchard, CHPC), and in addition to this kind of coaching I specialise in Emotional Intelligence skill upgrades and in Mindset upgrades!

It would be great to collaborate with others in the Miro community. I have followed the work of Frederic Laloux since around 2015, and just love his concepts of self management, collaboration, teal organisations, etc. I truly believe we each carry a super power which is magnified when we work with and along side others. 

Hello, Namaste, Hola, Bonjour, Guten tag, Salve, konnichiwa
 

My name is Abhishek (it means Holy Process) Prasad from Pune India. I am a UX Design Ops Manager for ADP India and lookafter the entire design team in India for Design Ops.

I am glad to be here, I am excited to see you guys. I am working on a Enterprise product and my challenges are way different and complex, I found this place mor comfortable and I am sure I will find the solutions here only.

For all I am known by my handle #WhatsAbhiDoing for outer world :)

Love you guys,

Abhi

Hello,

I am Gebhard, the owner of GB KOMMUNIKATION GmbH in Germany.

My colleagues and I support companies in their efforts to overcome issues with formal hierarchies by leveraging the competence of self-management.

We love using Miro to design, facilitate, and document complex, multi-month processes for everyone to benefit from. Specifically, we enjoy using Miro for group decision-making.

 

Hi, guys! Happy to participate with you! 

My name is Eduardo Sully, and I'm located on Silicon Island, oops, Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. I am a Product Designer and Service Designer and I work as an entrepreneur developing new digital products, helping small and large companies implement digital transformation. 
 

Some interesting things: I was once an amateur drummer and I'm a cyclist, that motivates me! 

Kyle:  So glad you’re on your way to Portland - its been in the works for a while!  Good look with the move!  Annie

Hi everyone! 

My name is Robert Skrobe, and I’m the owner/operator of Dallas Design Sprints here in Texas.  My focus is on virtual design sprinting, process improvement and professional development.  I’m also the organizer of the Global Virtual Design Sprint and the manager of the (Design Sprint) Referral Network.

I am not well versed in Miro, but I plan on getting more acquainted with it in a run-up to the GVDS in May.  

Fun fact about me:  I host a podcast with my son about Roblox that gets 5x the amount of traffic and interest than my business podcast.  It’s called Alden’s Amazing Roblox Review and we have a lot of fun making it.

If y’all are into networking, you can find me on LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-skrobe-8620901/

Looking forward to meeting y’all, and hope you have a good rest of the week. :)

FYI:  The pic is of me and my son at Disney World.  He asked me to ride a water ride 16 times (I counted) because the lines were so short (it was also 60 degrees outside… he didn’t care much). 🤪

 

 

Hi Robert! It’s a pleasure to meet you! Here is our webinar about using Miro for facilitating Design Sprints: https://go.miro.com/how-justmad-uses-miro-to-run-remote-design-sprints-on-demand It has a lot of good tips and tricks, hope it helps! 

Hey everyone! I’m Steph from Zapier. I’m a part of the Community team. I’m just checking in and saying hello to everyone at Miro. I look forward to connecting with everyone in this community. Cheers!

Hey all! I’m Jaz, a Digital Product Manager here at Domino’s  (UK). I’m primarily focused on our eCommerce platform and website, trying to make it ridiculously easy for you to order pizza! 

I joined about 12 months ago and one of the first things I did to help facilitate some more collaborative working was get a subscription for Miro .

Hopefully there’s some pizza fans on here 

Hi everyone! 

I’m Kristin from the team here at Miro. Originally from NZ , my main focus is designing, building, and evolving our templates resources. If you have a great template idea, any feedback about our templates, or simply want to share how you use Miro with the rest of our users, I’d love to know!

I’m a huge template nerd. Sounds silly but it’s true! I’m endlessly fascinated by how people put structure to the things going on in their brains. I can’t wait to discover your favourite boards, workflows, projects, and frameworks. 

Connect with me here and on LinkedIn!

Kristin 

Hello, Everyone

It’s Liz from Slush China, just started using Miro recently, It’s a great place and community to work and share ideas. Love to e-meet you at Miro (＾Ｕ＾)ノ~ＹＯ

Hi I’m Kiron - 

I’m a project management & agile instructor and have spent most of my past week and a half shifting the course exercises we normally deliver in person to Miro. I’m very impressed with the flexibility and richness of widgets, tools and apps - it will make transitioning to virtual delivery of our courses much easier than I was expecting!

Kiron

Hey @Pau Todó, great question! I want to share a part of the blog post on our rebranding:

So, how did we land on Miro as our new name? Our main source of inspiration came from the Spanish painter and sculptor Joan Miró. His work was iconoclastic. It fundamentally challenged the status quo, existing beliefs and norms, and ultimately pushed people out of their comfort zone. Not only are we inspired by these ideals, but we felt that his surrealist and abstract style aligned with how people and teams use our platform, where every board is unique, ideas are expressed brilliantly through different colors and shapes, and how it has become a place where people express themselves and their ideas in very meaningful ways.

We also saw a thematic alignment with the changing world of work and his challenging nature. By moving away from a traditional style, Miró introduced a new way of understanding the world. We are disrupting the way people work, how they collaborate, and even how they interact with the world around them. We enable teams to do things differently, unlocking a lot of human potential along the way.

Of course, Miró’s work is known for being colorful and abstract. We saw an opportunity to build a brand that is full of colorful visuals and lets us explore the subjectivity of communication, collaboration and understanding. Different roles and teams speak different “languages” – and we aim to dissolve that challenge by creating a space where understanding and work can happen, and where a new unified, and unique visual language can be created and understood by everyone.

Aside from the direct inspiration of the artist, the word “Miro” has other interesting associations: the connotations of “mirror”, “look”, and “watch” can speak to the reflection, consideration, and visual aspect of what we do to help teams bring their ideas to life.

Miro also comes from the Slavic root word “mir,” meaning “peace, world.” For us, this is a nod to our company’s origin. It’s also symbolic of our ability to connect teams across the world and speaks to the peace of mind they get working together effectively.

More here - https://miro.com/blog/features/miro-cmo-barbra-gago-rebranding-hypergrowth-startup/ 

Hi, my name is Cheyenne, I’m a Language Arts Teacher in a Title 1 Middle School - but now I’m an online teacher for 90 students that are not all tech-savvy and require a lot of support and scaffolds. I’ve used Reatimeboard/Miro on and off for years, but now I think it has become a vital piece for me. The only thing I wish I had was the video chat portion, closing schools leaves my kids so isolated. 

Hello, miro community! はじめまして、miroコミュニティーのみなさん！

I'm Takafumi from Japan. I'm using miro as an art director in my web developing company since Covid-19 spread around Tokyo. Miro is super cool because this is kind of Imitating paper, there are huge areas, no partitions. I can put anything anywhere. Now we are working from home so miro bridges the gap and miro helps us so much!
Anyway, I'm so excited to join this community! Cheers!

Takafumi

Hello,

My name is Zach and I am a senior project manager for our continuous improvement (CI) team at Starbucks Corporation.  I’ve been there almost 11 years and 3 years on our CI team.  I mainly facilitate 2-3 day kaizen workshops that include 4 or so weeks or prep work.  I’ve built some template on Miro to translate our kaizen pre-work and day of workshop to a virtual atmosphere.  In my spare time, I’m an avid bread baker.  You can check that out here > https://www.instagram.com/zachlutes/

Thanks!
Zach

G’day All

My name is Evelyn and I have a passion for Family History. I thought of using Miro to share my expertise.

This social-distancing is giving me ample time to sit down and learn something new, hence my wandering into the Miro Community. I am still trying to understand how I can best do this. Any suggestions would be very helpful. I am only on the free plan as all my spare money goes into genealogy costs.

Ways I have thought of using Miro

1. Show my contacts how I arrived at my conclusions, that may differ from theirs.
2. Brainstorming the proverbial Brick Wall. 
3. Educating others so they too can enjoy knowing about their Family History.
4. Showing that Family History is more than Genealogy

After 40 years of experiencing I think I have enough that I can share. Now it is just learning new skills, as much has changed in the way things are done.

Personally I live alone with a cat. Not my cat, my youngest daughter’s cat. The kitten she had to have but left home without it. The cat and I are best suited with each other. Rather narky at times but we come together when it suits for quiet moments of contemplation or watching TV. A couple of years ago I did a Diploma of Family History online through the University of Tasmania. The certificate hangs on the wall behind the door to show I do know something.

I live in Wanneroo Western Australia, which is a northern suburb of the capital Perth. At present and maybe at least for the next 6 months, the state is in lock down from physical contact with the rest of the world. Although that doesn’t make much difference, as Perth is titled the most isolated city in the world (google it). Other claims are: It is the windiest city in Australia. It is also considered to be the third windiest capital city in the world. Perth is also the sunniest city in Australia. We only have a maximum of 8 days a year where the sun doesn’t shine.

Thanks Marina for the Welcome

Cheers everyone

Stay Safe and Well