
Live Illustration for In-Person Events
Large-scale illustrative note-taking is a point of engagement, photo target, and memory tool for attendees.
Strategic Planning Illustration
Add a holistic and visual reference to any collaborative meeting through the engagement with an illustrated record .
Virtual Event Illustration
Bring real-time illustration to your online events & grant your attendees a whole new way to absorb your content.
The Big Paper Strategy is this:
Listen to and refine event conversation,
illustrate a clear and holistic view of an event
- and make it memorable.
Big Paper Strategy's live illustration service brings color, holistic understanding, and visual energy to an event.
Conferences, corporate meetings, and community roundtables all benefit from the visual addition to any discussion.
A visual thinker with a background in business, technology, and design, Matt's big paper drawings provide a backdrop for the facilitation of lively group conversation, strategy, clarity, and vision casting.
Serving Fabulous Clients

Big Paper Strategy LLC
175 Kendall Park Road, Peninsula
5.0 11 reviews
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Caitlin Shaw ★★★★★ 3 months ago
HIGHLY RECOMMEND!! Matt brought a unique, engaging, and memorable experience to our company's first annual Summit. He was flexible and professional to work with, and did an impressive amount of research and prep work prior to arriving at our meetings. His illustrations perfectly captured each of our sessions over the two-day Summit, and we’re ecstatic to have them to look back on. If you're … More on the fence, JUST DO IT!! -
Taryn Struck ★★★★★ 4 months ago
Matt was absolutely wonderful to work! Not only is he the nicest guy in the world, but he has this amazing talent to listen and illustrate collective ideas in such a fun and approachable way. We look forward to working with him again in the future! -
Clark Langlois ★★★★★ 5 months ago
We contacted Matt on short notice to join an event with internal and external partners. He never missed a beat! From learning fast in the few days leading up to the event to being the star of the show throughout our meetings, it was a A+ experience working with him and he left us great illustrations that will help us tell the story of the event. I would highly recommend working with him for any event! … More -
Scott Hack ★★★★★ 7 months ago
This review is long overdue. Matt knocked it out of the park for the real estate conference that my wife and I host. He is extremely talented and creates bold visuals that engage with the audience. The drawings also get amplified on social media almost immediately because they are so amazing, easily sharable, and honestly... fun. Do not hesitate in bringing Matt to your event. You certainly won't … More regret it. -
Rachel Connor ★★★★★ 11 months ago
Being in the business of educating people, you are always looking for ways to bring the information, the lecture, the presentation to life for the learner. Matt with Big Paper Strategy does just that! His work appeals to the visual learner, the distracted learner, the dedicated learner...all of which want to be able to look back and remember what was taught. Highly recommend Matt! -
Kim Weis Laugherty ★★★★★ a year ago
I cannot say enough about the level of enthusiasm and creativity Matt brought to our Annual Conference! With this being our first in-person Annual Conference in 3 years, we were looking to add major BUZZ and WOW factors for members to enjoy, and Matt delivered! Our attendees were fascinated by his process, giving him and the resulting illustrations major kudos. They could also envision the applicability … More of his work to strategic planning, process mapping, and other endeavors in their school districts.
By illustrating the education session disussions, the key points, and major takeaways, Matt adds a critical layer to the learning process and knowledge retention.
We can't wait to have him back! -
Nancy Bruce ★★★★★ a year ago
Matt, you are so talented and we feel so honored to have your masterpiece be part of our People Experience, Global Talent Solutions narrative! We have been overwhelmed with compliments from the department! This was such a creative way to bring our global, virtual meeting to life and balance our priority to keep things simple. Can't wait to work together again! 😎 -
Priscilla Gandy ★★★★★ a year ago
Matt with Big Paper Strategy has been an incredible extension of our team in ensuring our events are creative, fun, and engaging! Whether virtual or in-person, Matt's graphic illustrations have allowed us to level-up attendee engagement - so much to the point that we've sent his graphic illustrations to attendees as event mementos! I highly recommend Matt with Big Paper Strategy! -
Alyssa Molinari ★★★★★ a year ago
We thought we were hiring Big Paper Strategy's Matt Orley to record the RESULTS of our Board of Director's Strategic Planning session, but instead he captured the entire process in real-time and provided an outstanding visual that clarified our conversation and direction throughout! Our leadership couldn't have been more pleased. Matt is extremely easy to work with and truly brings … More life to our events. We just signed another contract with Matt to illustrate our upcoming Conference and we can't wait to see what he brings to the table! -
Ohio Society of Association Professionals ★★★★★ a year ago
It was a pleasure to work with Matt and Big Paper Strategy at our annual conference. Highlighting the words and ideas of our keynote speakers, as they were presenting, was an awesome enhancement to the sessions. Attendees enjoyed it, and the speakers did, as well! Matt has such energy, creativity and talent. He definitely adds value to the sessions, and we will work with Big Paper Strategy again!

Ways We Work
Live Streamed Illustrations for Virtual Events
Add an uscripted visual element to your virtual events! Live, Virtual sketchnotes from Big Paper Strategy engage attendees both during and after the event and keep your group engaged.
In-Person Event Illustration
Graphic recording is the act of creating large, live illustrations that follow the verbal components of a meeting, talk, or conference through summaries in both written word and graphics on large surfaces to convey a holistic view of a conversation or session.
Workshops
Big Paper Strategy offers a series of workshops suited for corporate settings that improve visual thinking during the workday. Workshops also offer additional skills such as whiteboard selling, creativity development, fiercest competitor development, and technology overview drawing.
Unveiling a new look at PCMA Convening Leaders
2023 started off with a bang with a new, multi-layered color scheme unveiled at PCMA's Convening Leaders in Columbus, Ohio.
Bblack boards with custom cut white boards hovering an inch or so above, these oversized (4'x8' ) boards showcased session content drawn in white ink and user responses in colored ink on the smaller white panels.
Big Paper Strategy on Instagram
Big Paper Benefits
Meeting Attendees Share Images of Graphic Recordings via Social Media
Speeches, Keynotes and Discussions Are Clarified and Enhanced
Participants Enjoy a New and Exciting Visual Treat
Discussions and Meeting Benefit from a Holistic Visual Viewpoint
Speakers Feel Empowered, Pampered, and Appreciated
Powerful Post Meeting Images for Follow Up and Future Event Promotion
Happy Clients
Holy wow I love this Matt Orley!
You provided great value to IPEC 2022. The proof of that is the apparent new business you may have picked up as a result of your work on-site! There’s no better testimonial to your value than having our attendees booking you for their future events!
Moreover, I know we all agree that your style – low-maintenance, self-reliant, easy-going, always professional – is doubly appreciated. You meshed really well with our team and our value proposition, which is very important to us!
Thanks again and we look forward to future opportunities to work together.
Jaw-dropping reactions. Well done!!!
...Matt was professional and very easy to work with both pre-planning and during the conference. The Graphic recordings of two of our plenary presentations were a huge hit for both our attendees and presenters. Attendees enjoyed the visual addition to the presentation and we had many people lined up to review the drawings in completion after the presentations.
Thank you for the graphics! These are WONDERFUL! I’ve had such positive feedback from the participants about this very special feature of yesterday’s meeting. I can hardly wait to show them to everyone at our Town Hall tomorrow morning!
You did an amazing job! Can’t sing your praises enough! Look forward to working with you in September at Annual!
This layering and cohesion was not at all visible in the linear presentation but presented as a whole, was exceptional- and, honestly a great way for those that would be in attendance to accept the vision.
Your leadership, direction and guidance last night thru the brainstorming was so much more than I ever thought or imagined!
You were tremendous this week, man! Please consider MCCA among your fans.
There were a lot of consistent comments about the quality of the venue and whatnot, but the most consistent thing I heard was compliments on your work and what you contributed to the convention.
We'd love to book you for next year's convention...
So some exciting news for you… our Executive Leadership Team, specifically our CEO, was so impressed by this art piece that he wants posters made to put in ELT offices and other M Health Fairview venues to remind us of our ongoing work and connection to the community. How awesome!!
Thank you again! I have already shared with my team! I love your style. You are so talented!
You brought a layer of richness and excitement to the conference that was pretty magical!! And thank you for sending the digital files ... they are gorgeous!!
These graphic recordings gave a fun and surprisingly on-point review of the meeting.
This session was outstanding! The way it focused more on Matt's drawings than Power Point was very effective!