🤹 Improv Play Time! 🤹 I am getting ready to head out to the Applied Improvisation Network(AIN) conference this weekend in Safety Harbor, FL. For over two decades, improvisers, trainers, coaches and academics from around the globe have gathered to explore how the tools and philosophies of stage improvisation can be applied to non-performatory settings. What began as a slightly wacky fringe idea is now appreciated and integrated by many of the world's most innovative companies and communities. Every time I attend the conference, I’m reminded how lucky I am to be part of this group of brilliant, kind, wildly creative humans. AIN connects me to friends and collaborators across the world, and always inspires me to keep growing my understanding of and delight in our collective work. One of my most precious mentors and friends is the one and only Gabe Mercado, Koppett's current VP of Asia, with whom I’m thrilled to be co-leading some in-person workshops in Singapore this fall! 🎭 The Facilitation Advantage: Leading with Improvisation 📍Singapore | 📅 30 Sept - 1 Oct 2025 And 🎭Training to Imagine: Applied Improvisation Foundations 📍Singapore | 📅 3 Oct, 2025 Facilitation is a core leadership skill that is often under-valued. It is like the baking powder in a cake - invisible, but key to a delicious experience. Improvisation is a gym for leadership skills like listening, presence, storytelling, innovative thinking, and collaboration. These intensive courses dive deeply into frameworks and approaches from our seminal applied improvisation text, Training to Imagine, and the facilitator primer, The Facilitation Advantage, co-written with Therese Miclot. The tools and awareness you gain will help you: ✨ Cultivate engagement and psychological safety ✨ Respond powerfully in the moment ✨ Support lasting change in your organization ✨Navigate conflict ✨ Create motivating environments ✨ Influence and inspire others You’ll leave with an expanded range of behavioral options, refreshed confidence, and renewed joy in your work. This program is ideal for: 👉 Senior leaders and managers guiding teams through digital transformation 👉 HR professionals, trainers, and coaches developing future-ready talent 👉 Project managers and consultants leading complex, cross-functional initiatives 👉 Anyone eager to future-proof their leadership in an AI-driven world 🔗 Learn more and register: https://lnkd.in/e8u2_pDA Singapore outside your reachable radius? We’ll also be coming to 🇨🇦 Vancouver soon with the fabulous @Kirsten Anderson—dates and details to be announced! Don’t feel like traveling at all? Say tuned for word on another exciting project @Bard Braende and I will be announcing at AIN this weekend! Looking forward to seeing all you AIN-ers there! #AIN2025 #AppliedImprov #LeadershipDevelopment #FacilitationSkills #TheFacilitationAdvantage #ImprovisationInBusiness #YesAnd #KoppettOnTheRoad
What a wonderful offering, Kat Koppett! I can envision a room filled with challenges and the smiles of success and playfulness that arise for your improvisation students. Each one tapping into parts of themselves they didn’t know existed, guided by the dynamic facilitation I know you’ll bring.
Have an awesome time in Florida, Kat!
Hope you all have a productive and fun time! Let us know how it goes, please!
Sounds like an amazing conference to be speaking at Kat Koppett, and I love your decription of facilitation as ' a core leadership skill that is often under-valued. It is like the baking powder in a cake - invisible, but key to a delicious experience.' brillinat thank you!
What a line-up Kat! This will be a great success.
So exciting, Kat Koppett! It sounds like AIN is a dynamic, joy-filled community, and it’s inspiring to see how applied improv continues to expand its reach and impact. Love the metaphor of facilitation as baking powder—so true! Wishing you a brilliant time at the conference and much success with your Singapore sessions.
Kat Koppett you are the best at providing learning experiences that meet the needs of those you are serving. Kudos! An excellent facilitator make the world of difference for a meeting experience and outcomes. Thanks for the important work you do.
What an incredible invitation and offering Kat! Your reach through collaboration is amazing and the tools and resources you offer are such a gift! Can’t wait to hear nuggets of wisdom from it!
Sounds like some great offerings on the world stage here Kat Koppett. It's wonderful to see your work getting out into the world this way and I'm sure you'll impact many leaders.
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1wLove this, Kat! Wish I could be there!