Improv For Business Leaders Class, June-July 2026

Wait, Improv Can Help My Career?

There are many reasons why people sign up for an improv class, everything from “I need to get out of the house" to “I need more fun in my life" to “I can make people laugh and want a career in comedy!” 

But what if improv skills could also enhance your professional and personal development? What if they could foreground your leadership and communications abilities, so you could take those next steps in your career amidst a competitive occupational landscape? 

The short answer? Improv skills can do all that, and more: learning the basic principles of improv comedy provides also you with a crash course in the "soft skills" organizations train toward as they seek out the next generation of leaders.

Improv For Business Leaders: Course Overview 

Week One: Introduction: Improvisation as Leadership, Leadership as Improvisation

Week Two: Leadership is Presence: How To Listen, Both as Improviser and Leader

Week Three: Leadership is Contextual: Reading Rooms and Being Read as a Leader

Week Four: Leadership is Egoless: or, How To "Yes, And..." Your Way Toward Cohesion, Culture, and Collaboration

Our Four-Week Improv for Business Leaders Class

Shawn Westfall and Westfall Partners is excited to b you a four-week class that addresses a variety of challenges business professionals face every day using the lens of improv to help solve them, including:

• Public speaking: Learning how to feel more comfortable and confident speaking to colleagues and teams

• Going “off script”: Skillfully handling unexpected conversations and effortlessly delivering presentations

• Teambuilding: Creating healthy, supportive team relationships as both leader and team member

• Positivity: Bringing a “Yes, and…” attitude to the organization

• Listening: Understanding how listening to colleagues and clients – being “present” for them – is a necessary skill

• Creativity: Tapping into your unique creative impulse to reduce fear, unlock barriers and generate new ideas 

This course is designed for anyone who works in a business environment, anyone who wants to work in a business environment, or, frankly, for anyone who works and deals with others at all.

About the Instructor: The founder and primary facilitator of events for Westfall Partners, Shawn Westfall has brought improv as a strategy for fostering creativity, leadership, team-building, change-management, business strategy, and organizational development on-site and off-site to various private, public and non-governmental organizations, including Facbook, ESPN, The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Discovery Communications, Touchstone Consulting, Booz Allen Hamilton, 360Live Media, Ogilvy, Burson, The Washington Post Company, GEICO, The World Bank, Chipotle, ShotSpotter, Flying Dog Brewery, the consulate for the Embassy of Indonesia, SRA International, the National Institutes of Health, Sol Systems, and Hello, Cupcake!, among numerous others companies and organizations.