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Hey there, innovation champions!
Remember that old saying about how to make God laugh?
Make plans.
Well, looking back at 2024, I can’t help but laugh at how my biggest breakthroughs came from [Read more…]
David Koff’s been on or around the stage for over 40 years as an actor, producer, director, and teacher. He’s appeared on the TV shows “The West Wing” and on “Sesame Street”, something nearly impossible to pull off.
After over 20 years of professional acting in Los Angeles, David and his wife moved to Portland, Oregon where he’s performed and taught improvisation at Curious Comedy, The Brody Theater and now, to the students of the St. Andrew Nativity Jesuit school. He and his wife Mary are expecting their first child in November.
I met David last summer at the Applied Improvisation Network World Conference in Paris, where he gave a talk about his work teaching improv to kids. As you’ll hear in our conversation, he started his teaching job thinking he was teaching the kids, but he quickly learned that they had a lot to teach him [Read more…]
Gary Ware is the Founder of Breakthrough Play, a company that helps teams be more creative, confident, and collaborative using play. To do this, Gary incorporates techniques that professional improvisers use to create amazing experiences without a script.
Gary has been in the marketing and advertising industry for over a decade and first got into improvisation as a way to better his public speaking. Gary quickly found that improv and play could be a solution to various business challenges, so he started doing workshops for his team and other people in his network.
I met Gary when [Read more…]
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I feel like I’ve been away for a solid month. And that’s not far from reality, because I was in Paris and Basel for 2 1/2 weeks, and then I was home for a week recovering from jet lag and preparing for my Creative Sandbox Retreat, and then I was away again at my Creative Sandbox Retreat.
And now, as I’m recording this, it is exactly one month from the day we landed in Paris!
Anyway, Paris and Basel were amazing. Best vacation we’ve ever had.
Even though, I spent the entire time, from the fourth day onwards, on crutches!
Yes, that’s right, on our third day in Paris I [Read more…]
Cathy Salit’s business, Performance of a Lifetime (PoaL), helps businesses, leaders, and teams with the human side of strategy. In other words, they help the human beings that are carrying out the strategy of the business, using the art and science of theater and improvisation, combined with performative psychology, to help people perform who they are not yet.
Cathy started singing professionally when she was about 15 or 16. Then in the early 90s, she was [Read more…]
