I edutain audiences and help them get comfortable with the uncomfortable using the healing powers of improv.
Whether it be a large scale conference or event, a workshop, or by engaging my amazing team of twenty-two improv professionals at our professional development company, improve it!—I can guarantee your participants an electric, experiential, and transformational event.
Erin Diehl, improve it!’s founder, offers two distinct keynote options that use improvisational comedy to edutain her audiences!
Let’s edutain your audience!
KEYNOTE SPEAKING
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Redefine Failure, and #Failfluence Your Way to Success
Fear of failure is one of the biggest barriers to innovation, confidence, and productivity. When failure isn’t allowed, growth isn’t either.
In this high-energy, highly interactive keynote, Erin Diehl flips the script on failure, turning it into feedback, fuel, and a tool for growth. Through storytelling, improv, and experiential moments, participants get out of their seats (or find movement virtually) and practice embracing mistakes in real time.
This session breaks down perfectionism, builds resilience, and helps teams create a culture where experimentation, learning, and progress are the norm, not the exception.
Attendees will:
Reframe failure as necessary feedback
Learn ways to see failures as “gifts” versus mistakes
Build comfort with risk, uncertainty, and imperfection
Shift from perfectionism to progress-driven thinking
Build a practice for holding themselves accountable to failing frequently
Become the #failfluencers that their organizations need!
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Leading Yourself and Others When Everything Accelerates
As AI accelerates how work gets done, leaders are being asked to move faster while still building trust, clarity, and connection. Technology can scale output, but only humans create culture.
In this highly interactive keynote, Erin Diehl puts human leadership back at the center. Through improv, movement, and experiential learning, participants reconnect to self-awareness, empathy, and intentional communication as the foundation of effective leadership in fast-changing environments.
This is a high-energy session designed to re-energize leaders, strengthen presence, and build the human skills that AI can’t replace.
Attendees will:
Strengthen empathy, presence, and self-awareness in fast-paced environments
Understand how their thoughts, words, and actions shape culture and outcomes
Build practical tools to lead with clarity, confidence, and humanity
Recenter leadership on human behavior in an AI-driven world
Bring improve it! to your team!
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Empirical evidence has shown that improvisational training has the ability to improve an employee’s trust, teamwork, communication, presentation skills, creative problem solving, and can improve a company’s overall corporate culture.*
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We offer a variety of interactive workshops that dive deeper into essential power skills, using live improv activities, tools, and techniques. By getting to know you and your team, we align your objectives with one (or multiple) of our programs and customize it to fit your needs.
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Need a remote option?
From live interactive virtual workshops to virtual coaching, we’ve got you covered.
We offer a variety of interactive workshops that dive deeper into essential power skills, using live improv activities, tools, and techniques. By getting to know you and your team, we align your objectives with one (or multiple) of our programs and customize it to fit your needs.
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Looking for a way to break up the virtual conference monotony? Craving more fun during the day that builds culture? Needing more “ha-ha” and less “nuh-uh” in your team meetings? As always - improve it! has got your back with our laughter-filled offering.
We will provide you a zoom link to join a meeting and then jump into some short form improv for your team! You can give us suggestions, provide us with virtual laughter, or just sit back, relax, and let our seasoned improvisers brighten your day.