For years, Business Improvisations' innovative corporate training programs have helped professionals improve their communication, leadership, management, and team building skills. To learn more about our training, the positive effect our classes have had on our graduates, and how we can help your organization, we invite you to read the articles and listen to the podcasts below. To learn the link between improv, creativity, motivation, innovation, and success in the workplace, watch the interviews with our CEO, Bob Kulhan and senior instructor, Kate Duffy.
Have questions about how you can boost your team's performance with improvisation classes? Interested in scheduling a custom training program for your organization? Contact us today.
DUBAI, UAE - Robert Kulhan Assistant Professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, talks about "improvisation" that is also applicable in business other than theatre or acting.
"Hear more about unorthodox teaching tactics used by executive M.B.A. programs, as improvisation guru Bob Kulhan talks with The Journal's Emily Glazer."
VIDEO 1: Why Improvise?
VIDEO 2: Improvisational Leadership & Leaders of Consequence
VIDEO 3: Creating a Culture of Trust, Support, & Risk Taking
VIDEO 4: Ride the Bike
Improvisational Leadership: How to Create Culture & Foster Talent Using Improvisational Techniques
"I am in the process of writing a book, ‘Improvisational Leadership: How to Create Culture & Foster Talent Using Improvisational Techniques’. Stay Tuned! Periodically I will release chapters on this website!" -Bob Kulhan
The Experts’ Guide to Doing Things Faster
Bob Kulhan was invited to contribute as the expert in improvisation and asked to write the chapter "HOW TO THINK ON YOUR FEET" (click image to enlarge & read)
Some Testimonials...
"You brought our diverse group of software developers and sales and marketing professionals together in a fun and exciting venue to learn those invaluable traits of teamwork and trust. Their training and guidance helped us grow as a team and we have continued to use the techniques as taught to this day."
- JMP, A Business Unit of SAS
"I want to take a moment to give you a big Navy “BZ” (Well Done) ! You not only met every requirement of the command, but also went well beyond our expectations in the content and quality in your presentation."
Henry Conde, Captain SC, USN
Commanding Officer
Fitting Out And Supply
Support Assistance Center
“Focusing on adaptation to change, stress management and teaming, your improv team was able to bring these lessons to life. The “on your feet” approach combined with a high level of participation involvement made for a most enjoyable learning environment. Our team went away revived and refreshed and they learned tools to help them better deal with change on a personal and project level.”
Craig Brummel, Director, ERP Programs, University of Notre Dame
The overt problem: Naming a new software product that will consume half of our company's resources over the next two years. A big investment, and worthy of considerable thought to communicate the quality and usefulness of this product!
The underlying problem: Getting nine directors of the company to all agree on this name! Enter the recent student of Bob Kulhan's Business Improvisations class with a raft of new/old ideas. You've heard of brainstorming, thinking outside the box, and making new associations, but the practical application of those techniques, in a vibrant, exercise oriented, on-your-feet class brought it all to new heights for me! I took it all home and ran that "Name-Brain" meeting with aplomb... and the results were phenomenal!We actually named the product, with 100% participation, building on each other's ideas, and total buy in. (Now if we can just Trade-Mark it!) And the level of excitement within the company at having that unified choice is terrific.
-Cindy Whitaker
Director, Business Products
Environmental Systems Corp
"You have made an impact on my life... We were doing things I thought I would never do, and that has provided at least a handful of different techniques and concepts that I will incorporate into my personal and professional life. Keep up the good work; your energies and enthusiasm are contagious!"
- Patrick O'Connor
President, Range Kleen