Where you come to improve
Improve offers products, services, and experiences designed to improve leaders, teams, companies, and impact
Improve is designed with growth and change in mind
We deliver services and create experiences that combine elements from improv, research, and science. With us, you will manage change and growth, making real, lasting improvements so to achieve your goals.
About Mary
As a teenage entrepreneur, I struggled when work and life didn’t go as I expected (which, was often!)
I signed up for an improv class and my life was never the same.
Over the past 10+ years I've been practicing improv and teaching others to incorporate improv inspired principles and practices into their work and lives. I've led workshops for tens of thousands of people around the world, at large companies and small ones, Fortune 500s, universities, and nonprofits. I even gave a TED talk about it. Along the way I incorporated tried and true business frameworks, elements of neurolinguistic programming, mindfulness, and other research and performance backed methods to really make improv, Improve. We're "improv" + "e" because we're using improv techniques and principles to effect and empower growth and change and, well, improvements.
Improve was created to help companies and people improve. I needed something like this, and so I've created a way to help others improve, find more joy, freedom, and connection in their work and lives.
I hope you'll say "yes, and" improve with us.
Mary
P.S. Want to learn more about me and my story? Click here.
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Meet the Team
Mary Lemmer
Founder
You just read a bit about Mary above, so we’ll just add here that in addition to improv, business, and impact, she enjoys learning about the brain, reading, her dog, paddleboarding, long walks on the beach, and food puns.
Mel Rubin (and Milo :)
Improviser
Mel is known to spit a rhyme quite sublime! Mel performs with the hip hop improv team North Coast at The People’s Improv Theater in NYC, has studied/performed improv at the Magnet Theater in NYC, & has performed around the country.
Aniela McGuinness
Improviser
Aniela is a film and TV actress with over 15 years of improv experience. She used improv as an invaluable coping skill during her cancer diagnosis and treatment, and teaches improv to cancer patients at Gilda’s Club. You may also recognize her from “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”.