What is Ideation Coaching
Ideation Coaching runs creative workshops for businesses, community groups and individuals—supporting everything from Insights & Strategy to Team Away Days.
Using our visual ideation method to help clients unlock fresh perspectives, clarify ideas and turn insight into action. The result: clear goals, better decisions and real impact.
We work with People.
“The session provided important focused time for our group to work together and figure things out.”
“It felt cathartic to get things off my chest. It was energising and engaging and gave us the opportunity to take stock and find direction.”
Insights for Organisations:
Devlin Shea is a consultant, visual researcher, strategist and artist who helps organisations use creativity to think clearly, connect deeply and communicate with impact. She customises ideation techniques to meet each client’s unique needs.
By guiding teams through problem-solving and refining their messaging, Devlin helps improve shareholder communication, engage target audiences effectively and drive sustainable growth
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Your ideas. Your team. Your workshop.
Turn conversations into clarity — and ideas into action.
Each creative workshop is a hands-on space for thinking differently, using image-making, metaphor and co-creation to move from conversation to visual clarity.
Teams leave with a vivid, shared expression of their ideas — a roadmap for future action and renewed momentum.
For corporate teams:
Whether you want the energy of a Team Away Day or an in-office session to navigate change, clarify vision or spark new ideas, every workshop is designed around your goals and context.
For nonprofits, community groups and arts organisations:
Accessible and tailored sessions foster deeper communication, strengthen team cohesion, support inclusive engagement with volunteers and help plan for what’s next.
Every workshop is custom-built — get in touch to design yours.
One-to-One Creative Work:
For individuals who want to navigate change or explore new directions.
These sessions use visual thinking to map inner landscapes and reveal fresh perspectives.
The process helps uncover patterns, recognise challenges and identify strengths — creating the clarity and confidence to move forward.
The story
“I passionately believe that everyone has the capacity to learn and change through creativity.”
Ideation Coaching began with Devlin Shea exploring how Creative Consulting and visual thinking could help people and organisations communicate more clearly and act with confidence. Her career has been rooted in consumer research and insight for companies and organisations, and she recognised that empowering individuals and teams with creative tools strengthens collaboration and outcomes across whole organisations.
Today, Ideation Coaching offers workshops and consulting services led by Devlin—bringing visual methods to unlock creativity, drive innovation and support meaningful transformation.
Devlin Shea
Founder, Creative Consultant & Facilitator
Devlin is a Visual Researcher, Marketing Strategist and Artist with over 20 years of experience helping people and organisations see their ideas more clearly.
She began her career at Harvard University’s Mind of the Market Lab, studying Neuromarketing and the mind's use of metaphor to ‘file’ thoughts and shape beliefs. Since then, she has worked as a creative consultant with global brands across Europe, North America, and Asia—supporting projects in branding, advertising, product design, R&D and innovation.
Devlin also works with mission-driven organisations in the nonprofit, education and community arts sectors—bringing visual tools to support insight, collaboration and meaningful social impact. Her workshops and consulting projects have helped teams align around shared values, communicate more effectively and imagine new futures together.
Devlin is also a practicing visual artist whose work has been exhibited internationally. She’s active in her local ceramics collective, volunteers on museum steering committees and finds joy in time with her family and new puppy.