Interactive Keynotes and Workshops
Where the Whole Room Plays
Where can your company grow?
Team Building
Experts agree that building a strong team is important for the longevity and success of any company, but creating and maintaining that supportive culture can be challenging. Often companies try to create competition to do this which can be counterproductive. Instead of creating winners and losers, improv creates trust and understanding for everyone in a fun and safe environment.
Communication
Whether you are speaking with a co-worker or a client, communication can either cause frustration or make people feel valued. Employees often avoid communication for fear of confrontation. An improv presentation can include exercises that focus on listening, nonverbal communication, intentional language, and having difficult conversations.
Leadership
A leader is not defined as a manager, director, or boss. A leader is simply someone who leads. Improv exercises serve to remind the team that leaders communicate clearly, celebrate achievements, and set goals with their team. If everyone in an organization is empowered to lead, the potential for that organization is unlimited.
Creativity
Forbes states that decision making and problem solving are two of the most important skills for an employee to have. Employees often have creative ideas in these areas, but are afraid to share them because they don’t want to be wrong. Improv encourages risk-taking and celebrating those risks, which opens the door to a world of new ideas.
Being Happy
Harvard research says that people who are happy at work are more successful. Managers can improve customer satisfaction by 50%, sales can increase by up to 37%, and doctors are up to 19% more accurate when diagnosing illnesses when they are happy as opposed to negative, stressed, or even neutral. All improv training sessions are highly entertaining by celebrating choices and not taking oneself too seriously. They even offer tools to keep that positive attitude upon returning to day-to-day activities.
Customized Content
Every business is different. They all face challenges, but those challenges differ from company to company. Since your organization is unique, the presentation designed for it should be too. Every keynote and workshop delivered is customized with your input to address your organization’s specific needs.
Featured Topics
“Yes, and…”
Improving Leadership and Collaboration Through Improv
The basic rules of improv deal with finding agreement, listening, leading by empowering others, making confident choices, and celebrating those choices. These same attributes can improve productivity, sales, and networking skills, build stronger leaders and teams, boost creativity, and encourage employees and clients to feel more valued.
This interactive keynote gives participants an entertaining opportunity to grow in a safe environment and walk away with valuable skills that can be put to use immediately.
Learning Objectives:
Increase employee engagement, leading to higher productivity and less turnover
Build stronger relationships with clients, team members, and family members
Improve listening, responding, and nonverbal skills
Conflict resolution
Expand creativity
Improv(e) Your Communication
We all like to think that we are good communicators, but this workshop will help you see where your strengths and blind spots are by actually interacting with others in various games in a fun, low-pressure setting.
The objectives are to improve verbal and nonverbal communication, sharpen listening skills, and develop strategies for conflict de-escalation. Participants leave with tips they can use to help improve their communication with team members and clients immediately.
Beyond Boundaries:
Unlocking Creative Genius
Your brain is working against you. It's wired to avoid risk, kill ideas before they breathe, and protect the status quo — especially in high-stakes, precision-driven fields where “that's not how we do it” is practically a reflex. But the most innovative breakthroughs don't come from playing it safe. They come from teams that know how to build on each other's thinking instead of shutting it down.
That's the power of Yes, And — the foundational principle of improv that transforms how teams communicate, collaborate, and solve problems. This session gives your team practical, immediately applicable tools to break through mental barriers, think more expansively, and collaborate at a higher level — without sacrificing the rigor and precision your work demands.
More Topics
Meaningful Appreciation: How Leaders Motivate and Retain Teams • Upgrade Your EQ: The Science and Skill of Great Leadership
The Art & Science of Self-Improvement (with TriMetrix EQ) • From Passive Listener to Active Participant
Getting Real in Virtual Space • Leading with Compassion • Creating Happiness • A Little Less Conversation
Mindfulness in Uncertain Times • Your Meetings Suck • How Do YOU Think You're Doing?: Creating Better Employee Reviews
Offerings
Keynote
Whether it's a 200-person conference or a ballroom of 2,000, everyone in the room is actively engaged in the experience, not just watching from their seat, and walks away with practical takeaways they can put to use immediately.
Workshop
Built around your team's actual challenges, not a generic template, this hands-on session gets people interacting, practicing, and problem-solving in real time — so they leave energized with skills they can use the next morning, not notes they'll never reopen.
EMCEE
From keeping the energy high between sessions to moderating panels and coaching your internal speakers, this role keeps the whole event interactive and your audience locked in from start to finish.
Next Level Leaders
A full-day, immersive leadership experience built around 20 lessons and 15 hands-on activities for organizations who want to develop their emerging and advancing leaders. Participants receive a personal TriMetrix® EQ Assessment — a combined look at behavioral style, motivators, and emotional intelligence — then immediately put those insights into practice through improv-based exercises. Available as a standalone full-day program organizations bring in for their own team.
Add TriMetrix® EQ to Any Session
Want to go further than a single keynote or workshop? Add a personal TriMetrix® EQ Assessment for your attendees — a 60+ page individualized report on personality (DISC), motivators (Driving Forces), and emotional intelligence, paired with an improv-based session that helps people apply the results immediately. Available as an add-on to most programs (per-attendee fee).