Peter Durand is an artist and educator who believes that working and learning should be experiential, relevant, and highly visual. In 1998, he founded Alphachimp Studio Inc. as a graphic facilitation company, and in 2012 he created Alphachimp Learning Systems LLC to produce explainer videos and to deliver onsite and online training in visual communication and design thinking skills. In his work as a graphic facilitator with the Value Web (an international network of over 50 facilitators and designers), Durand has supported major collaborative events with the World Economic Forum, including the Young Global Leaders and forums in Davos and Tianjin. Durand serves as a lead facilitator for the Innovation Center at Vanderbilt Medical Center, a collaborative innovation space at a major research hospital in Nashville, Tennessee. He facilitates large-scale design-thinking sessions in the fields of biomedical informatics, electronic health records, and patient experience. He has delivered workshops on graphic facilitation and visual communication for NIKE, Deloitte, Accenture, T. Rowe Price, Cap Gemini, Singularity University, TEDMED, HiMSS, AMIA, and the World Economic Forum. He holds a bachelor's degree in visual communication from Washington University in St. Louis and a magister's degree in industrial design from the Akademia Sztuk Piekniech in Krakow, Poland.