The use of improvisation as a training tool provides better listening, better focus, and better understanding. And it's a whole lot of fun. Often, however, it gets a bad rap because people think of it as something just for the stage. How many times have facilitated a training session and searched for experiential learning that sticks? Improv is that tool.

Bridget K. Brown, Owner-StoryMatters, LLC, bridget@storymatterscompany.com, (314)221-1441 Known as the "Geek Translator", C-suites, HR teams, sales teams and entrepreneurs hire Bridget K. Brown to increase their expertise and the skills of their employees in making the complex clear in the stories they tell themselves and others. She is a public speaking, storytelling coach and ​master ​facilitator ​whose superpower is coaching and being a passionate cheerleader for​ ​clients. AND her workshops are always a lot of fun!
 
​As a Certified Applied Improvisation Instructor with 15+ years of instructional design and facilitation experience, she combines her background as an actress, writer, and instructional designer by using elements of improvisation in her work​. Bridget has trained at the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University and Duarte Academy for Presentation Skills in Silicon Valley​ and was a workshop instructor for the 2016 Science Communication Symposium at Washington University in St. Louis along with Alda Center Facilitators.
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​​She​ was a former Adjunct Instructor in the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Washington University in St Louis. She has created global security awareness programs for two Fortune 500 companies; coached scientists in TEDx talks and helped organizations within the healthcare industry tell stories which aid them to sell their data-driven products in order to increase their bottom line.​She lives in Southeastern Connecticut.

Theodore Klein is Managing Partner at the Boston Strategy Group (BSG). Mr. Klein has over 40 years of executive management experience at several premier consulting firms, and was the CEO of Boston Systems Group, named one of America’s 100 leading consulting firms. Mr. Klein has led over 350 engagements for global corporate, healthcare, university, and government institutions across four continents. He has been an avid improvisation student for the last four years and writes frequently on applied improvisation developments. Mr. Klein holds an MBA from Boston University and undergraduate degrees in Mathematics and in the Social Sciences.