“Yes, and” For Work and Life

Improve Collaboration

Improving collaboration in teams is a proven way to increase employee happiness, productivity and retention. This interactive keynote teaches specific techniques designed to improve collaboration in in-person, virtual or hybrid organizations. Attendees will be laughing, learning and interacting with each other all while walking away with simple, practical techniques they can bring back to their teams.

Content Highlights

  • Resiliency - Overcome your “fear of failure” by practicing collaborative techniques that use failure as a springboard for faster learning. Learn how to embrace failure to help you and your team move forward in creative and unexpected ways.

  • Learn how to gain confidence “thinking on your feet” and sharing ideas with minimal preparation time. Practice mental techniques to embrace the unexpected, deter snap judgments and let creative ideas flourish.

  • Learn techniques for listening to and building on ideas to move a conversation forward towards your goal. Use these “Yes, and skills” to practice generating new ideas in groups. Practice converting negative reactions into constructive approaches. 

  • Brainstorming - Learn how time-boxed, improv-driven group brainstorms can quickly generate exciting new ideas. Practice using these new techniques to co-create powerful ideas and solutions to even the most difficult and entrenched challenges.

  • Have fun!

- Pediatrician, Dignity Health

I have never laughed so hard in a meeting before!

Consulting Director, CBRE

“Inspiring, fun, accessible, practical”