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No matter if you want to set the tone and further your event theme, find new ways to motivate business leaders, or introduce and explore concepts that enhance success, Karen can make it happen. In-person or virtual, Karen works closely with your event organizers to create excitement, boost energy, and ensure your event goes off without a hitch.
IMPROVISATIONAL LEADERSHIP:
Agile, Confident Leadership Now!
Karen Hough will reveal 4 techniques from her Amazon #1 bestselling book that will take secrets from the improv stage.
Reveal how they can make significant impact in the business world.
integrates their thoughts and comments throughout the keynote in a meaningful, improvisational way.
Give you usable tips and behaviors to put to work immediately.
An experience you'll never forget.
PRESENCE AND IMPACT ON EVERY PLATFORM:
Break the Rules, Make Mistakes, and Win Them OverIn-Person, Virtually, or Hybrid
Throw out those rules, relax, be yourself, make “mistakes,” and connect with your audience much more effectively than the guy with the impeccable PowerPoint slides.
Backed by research in human memory and psychology.
Walk away with ideas that can change your confidence and capabilities immediately.
Exercises and case studies to keep you laughing and thinking.
CHANGE AND THE UNEXPECTED:
Improv, Impact and Handling Anything that Comes Your Way
Karen Hough will reveal simple improv techniques that will allow you to prepare, play, and think upside down to find new and innovative answers.
How anyone can learn to be more creative, flexible and better at managing change.
Engage and delight your audience for a memorable and engaging experience.
Meet Karen
Karen Hough is the Founder & CEO of ImprovEdge She is an Amazon #1 bestselling author, winner of the Silver Stevie Award for Most Innovative Company of the Year and the WNBA’s Outstanding Women Award, a Yale grad and pioneer in her field.
ImprovEdge is business training with an improv twist and is the first company to combine research in neuroscience with the art of improv for impactful, unforgettable training. Karen’s keynotes have people laughing, engaging, interacting, out of their seats and have been ranked as the “most memorable event I’ve ever seen at a conference.”
Karen’s first life was as a professional improviser and actor. She trained and performed with Chicago’s Second City, did over 100 theatrical productions, and was featured in radio, TV and film. She lived a second life as a successful executive in network engineering with one of the first tech startups to go public. Finally, she became an entrepreneur. She is a Certified Speaking Professional with the National Speakers Association, a WBENC Pitch Perfect Champion, and has presented to over a million people on five continents.
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“These improvisational capabilities allow our leaders to be innovative and flexible and to collaborate on a radical level.”
-John Brock, Chairman & CEO,
Coca-Cola Enterprises
“It was fantastic having Karen with us at our sales conference. She got the team motivated and thinking- we’ve heard a lot of “yes AND” this week. Success!!”
-Amy Gath, Vice President,
North America Marketing, Formica
“Nothing like hanging out with Karen Hough from ImprovEdge! You’re definitely missing out if you’ve never crossed paths with her and her team. She’s special and what they deliver is meaningful, relevant and impactful in more ways than one. She’s won over every team she’s gotten in front of which is a unique accomplishment here at CCS.”
-Barbara Escalante Hess,
CHRO, CCS Medical