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6 Weeks of tactics, frameworks, lessons, and practice, improving your ability to improvise, creatively solve problems, and adapt to unforeseen circumstances, so you can handle anything that comes your way in work and life.

Master the Highest Impact Skills Key to Thriving in Work and Life — Learn to Improvise

Everywhere in life we're asked to improvise. Delayed flights, lost jobs, stomach bugs, conversations that don't meet our expectations, all of these situations require us to adapt, problem solve, and improvise with creativity. During this 6-week course you'll learn and practice improvisation techniques specifically designed to improve your capacity for growth and change and ability to handle anything that comes your way, be it a power outage, job change, or labor strike.

Unlike reading a book or listening to a podcast, this course will give you actual training and experience handling anything. You'll get hands on experience and feedback on your specific ways of navigating uncontrollable circumstances with me and your fellow classmates in a live setting. You’ll walk away with practical skills and techniques you can use and with a big smile on your face!

Not sure if the course is for you? Sign up for a 20-minute consultation

Who is this course for

1

You’re an entrepreneur, small business owner, or independent who is constantly navigating changing circumstances in your life and business.

2

You’re working on a team as a manager or individual contributor (at a company, school, NGO, etc) and want to make sure you’re best prepared to handle all of the growth and change inevitable in an ever changing (and not in your control) organization.

3

You struggle when things don’t go as planned. You realize it’s a skill to be able to adapt and handle unpredictable and changing circumstances and now you want to get better at catching the curveballs.

What you’ll get out of this course

Transformational tools

Learn about your core strengths and build resilience and gain an expanded skillset, increasing your capacity to handle more situations without the added stress. Discover new ways of creatively solving problems and innovating with new ideas. Find out how to empower your own adaptability, creativity, and trust.

Real practice

We’ll directly practice various conversations to show you how to prep for them and how and what to do, and you’ll practice them enough that it will become much easier and less stressful to do in real life.

Learn and practice a framework and techniques for handling anything that comes your way

The aim is to know how to flexibly handle situations and conversations in your own words, instead of needing to memorize what to say for an infinite number of possible scenarios.

A community of support

Meet and connect with other people, building bonds, friendships, and collaborations to support one another’s growth even beyond the six weeks.

Course Syllabus

  • Learn and practice the 4 principles and foundational skills that will help you handle anything, and which we will build upon throughout the course.

  • Get to know your Core Character and learn ways to tap into your (often less used) inner skills and character traits when you need them most.

  • Learn and practice techniques that make difficult conversations a little, well, less difficult. Plus, practice having those conversations that make you cringe so that they become a bit less, well, cringeworthy.

  • Learn communication techniques proven to boost trust, connection, and productivity, for all the times you need to deliver a hard to deliver message in ways that hurt less.

  • Discover new ways of creatively solving problems and innovating with new ideas. Learn and train your brain to look at things in new ways, so you can turn unexpected wrenches thrown at you into magic wands.

  • Practice core techniques learned throughout the course, applied to specific life and work scenarios, training your mind and body to approach real life change and fearful situations with courage.

What people are saying

  • "Any leader who wants to build more collaboration and connectivity in their team should include improv in their toolkit. Working with Mary is a delight."


    -Ellina S, CMO & Digital Leader

  • “Mary and team walked us through fun exercises that allowed us to truly listen, exercise our creativity, and embrace the unexpected.”


    - Liz K, Brand Marketing Leader

  • "All I can say is WOW! This session was full of humor, interactive and tips that you can implement immediately."


    -Sarah K, Learning & Development Leader

  • “Not only did she make our nonprofit leaders feel welcomed and empowered, but they gained powerful skills of quick thinking, clear communication, trust, and flexibility. And they've raved about it!! Could not recommend Mary's programs more for companies, leaders, and entrepreneurs.”


    - Julia J, Senior UX/UI Designer

  • "I NEEDED this!!"


    - Jennifer O, Consultant

  • “Through improv, we were able to improve communication, build trust, become better listeners, problem-solvers, gain confidence, and have fun while doing it! We laughed a lot, learned a lot and, when we walked away, many of us were no longer strangers. All of this in less than 2 hours. It was awesome!”


    - Ryan M, Agile Coach

Meet your instructor

Mary has helped companies, teams, and leaders navigate challenges from interpersonal conflicts, changes in company structure and team dynamics, problem solve, innovate, and thrive while achieving their goals. She brings over two decades of experience as an entrepreneur, author, humorist, and recovering venture capitalist and startup unicorn director. In addition to her lived and work experience she has a business degree from The University of Michigan Ross School of Business, a certification in neuro linguistic programming, studied neuroscience at Duke University, has studied improv at The Second City, Upright Citizens Brigade, The Groundlings, and has developed unique training methods combining NLP, neuroscience, and other research-supported methods, with improv techniques, for profound transformation and lasting impact. She gave the TED talk “How improv can improve your leadership and life” and over the last 10+ years, she’s run workshops in-person and virtually for Google, Verizon, Square, TED, Pfizer, The University of Michigan, and more.

Click here to learn more about Mary.

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How to Handle Anything

6 Weeks of Improving Your Ability to Improvise, Creatively Solve Problems, and Adapt to Unforeseen Circumstances

The ability to handle anything is a learnable skill

Active, hands-on learning

This course builds on live role plays, and hands-on, interactive learning.

Learn with a supportive group

You'll be learning alongside other peers who face similar challenges and opportunities.

Highly interactive

We'll learn through live interactive demos, direct feedback, and lots of time to practice.

FAQs

What happens if I can’t make a live session?

We hope you can make the live sessions, but just in case, we’ll recordings after class.

Teachers are also available for questions for 10 minutes after class.

What is the expected time commitment?

As much or little as you want to put in. Each live class is an hour with the option to hang around for an extra 10 minutes. Students will have access to the recordings and bonus materials for optional self-study if you’d like. If you want to get the full benefit of the course we recommend attending all 6 hours worth of the 6 live sessions (or at least watching the recordings and practicing the techniques from each session).

What’s the refund policy?

If you need to cancel your registration, please email yes@chooseimprove.com

There are no refunds after the first class begins.

Do I need to have taken an improv class before?

Nope. There is no requirement to have any prior experience with improv, or communication training, or leadership training. This course is inviting to anyone wanting to learn how to better handle anything that comes your way.