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Humor at Work: Relationship Training at OSU

September 9, 2011

Columbus, OH – I once again returned to The Ohio State University, this time to give Relationship Training to the incoming Resident Advisors for the year. We talked about relationships in theory (presentation), in practice (through interactive exercises) and in application (through roleplay). Overall, the event was a blast and the training was well-received. I [...]

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Humor at Work: At Summer Camps with CSz

August 17, 2011

New York, NY – This summer I had the chance to team up with ComedySportz New York to teach improv at some of the summer camps in the greater New York City region. It’s always a great experience to teach improvisation to kids, but to teach it to kids who will be counselors for younger [...]

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Humor at Work: CSz Tournament 2011

July 25, 2011

Indianapolis, IN – Just as I did in 2009 and 2010, I attended the annual ComedySportz tournament this year in Indianapolis. In addition to attending a number of great workshops and performing in some hilarious shows, I also lead an improv workshop for fellow improvisers. Leading a workshop for other improvisers is always exciting but [...]

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Your Brain on Improv

May 3, 2011

An interesting TEDx talk on Your Brain on Improv. It doesn’t have a lot of conclusions but it does give an insight as to what’s happening when you improvise and how that may relate to creativity.

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Humor at Work: Improv Class at National Sales Meeting 2011

April 8, 2011

Las Vegas, NV – I was once again invited back to the P&G Prestige National Sales Meeting (this year dubbed Leadership University), but unlike in years past, I didn’t perform stand-up. Instead, I taught members of the organization improvisation as part of their “recharge” sessions. The classes focused on the most fundamental maxim in improvisation: [...]

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Humor at Work: Improvising with Prestige

April 2, 2011

New York, NY – A Prestige company in New York wanted to do something special to kick-off monthly events for strategically disengaging, so they brought me in to lead the first one. We billed the event as me performing corporate stand-up comedy, but since we kicked it off on April 1st, we thought we’d switch [...]

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Humor at Work: Humor Training at the AIN

December 17, 2010

New York, NY – I’m always looking for ways to improve my trainings, so when I was offered the chance to have part of my training reviewed and critiqued by fellow applied improv experts, I jumped at the chance. With the help of some fellow AIN members, I demonstrated a section of my Humor Bootcamp [...]

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The Sentence that Changed Everything

November 22, 2010

The following story is a break from the normal posts on the site, but one I thought I’d share.  I wrote it to be included with HR Ringleader’s Game Changing Moments and thought it might be of interest to some people who are curious about how a computer engineer found and started using humor. ———————————————————– [...]

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Humor at Work: Comedy as Commentary 2010

November 12, 2010

New York, NY – For the third straight year I was asked to be a guest lecturer in the Comedy as Commentary class at Parsons University. Much the same as past years, I answered questions and provided insights on what it’s like to do improv and stand-up comedy. I also spent more time leading a [...]

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Humor at Work: Team-Building for US Navy

September 15, 2010

Brooklyn, NY – I just got back from a great workshop where I partnered with ComedySportz New York for an improv-based training for the US Navy. Every 2 years they work with CSz NY for a team-building event that uses improv and this year I co-facilitated. The group was a little hesitant at first, but [...]

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