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National Fun at Work Day… A Guide for Leaders Like You to Create, Ideate and Play with Remote Teams

By |2021-01-28T18:28:38+00:00January 27, 2021|

Friday the 29th is National Fun at Work Day!   Some people think play is frivolous.   It isn't. And it's time to change the narrative on play.   Play is good for our mental well-being, happiness and for #innovation in #marketing, #products, across the company and your life. It's how you play and whether teams feel #Psychologicalsafety while doing it that matters. Leaders play. They encourage it in others. They take what they do seriously and [...]

How Improvisation Makes Us Better Marketers and Better People

By |2020-04-21T22:34:01+00:00April 20, 2020|

And not in that order. Improvisation has changed my world. It's changed everything in 20 years for me. It’s not just about honing your funny bone (and it will, Virginia, I promise!); the true lessons of improvisation are about so much more than being funny. In fact, improvisation makes us better marketers because it makes us better people. (note: this is an update of an older post I wrote and [...]

Want More Creative Content Ideas? 6 Rules to Break Now!

By |2020-04-20T23:25:12+00:00November 24, 2018|

We fall into ruts all the time. We use the same ways to get out of those ruts. That itself keeps us from seeing things in new ways. So if you want more creative content ideas, here are 6 rules to break now. Don't buy into a template mentality for your content. Your brand's path is different. My interview with Content Marketing Institute. Want More Creative Ideas? Here [...]

Five Ways That Improv Ups Your Business Game

By |2017-09-24T21:34:22+00:00September 4, 2017|

(My first version of this post appeared in PureMatter blog).   I am an unabashed humor and improv nerd. And I mean visibly nerdy from space. At 8, the very first presentation I gave to a class that I remember was on Harold Lloyd, Hollywood’s silent film-era comedy stuntman. Oh, and I dressed the part, too.   Source: Gratisography.com    I’ve managed teams in marketing and I’ve been performing comedy [...]

Services

By |2020-12-08T20:12:20+00:00January 22, 2017|

Services: Marketing and Leadership   Need a storytelling strategy? Creative Facilitation? Or a Speaker that blends strategy with improvisation? Bye, bye boring! Stop Boring Me! Workshops + Facilitation Need a creative, fun facilitator to bring out your team's best ideas? Need a storytelling workshop?  I have worked with executives and teams from branding, marketing and communications, engineering and HR. I have worked with [...]

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Workshops & Facilitation

By |2021-12-24T02:37:10+00:00January 22, 2017|

Workshops and Facilitation Abolish Boring! Super-Creative Ideas and Big Results Whether you need new product/service, storytelling or content ideas, or want to bust boring in marketing or sales, my approach to facilitation is playful (improv-based “yes, and!”), collaborative and helps customers generate lots of innovative ideas for better outcomes.  This is what happens when strategy meets improv! Popular Workshop and Facilitation Topics Blending [...]

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Speaking

By |2022-03-17T21:41:33+00:00January 22, 2017|

Speaking "Kathy served as closing keynote at AMA Cincinnati 2018 IGNITE CX Conference. She delivered the perfect balance of humor and thought-provoking content in a highly engaging, energetic, relevant presentation. She is exceptional, and attendees are still talking about, quoting, and applying Kathy’s “yes-and” and story concepts in practice!" - Past President, Gina Bonar Need a playful, inspiring and interactive workshop or keynote to collaborate, create and communicate better? [...]

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Books

By |2021-05-18T17:50:13+00:00January 22, 2017|

Latest Release My latest book is “Stop Boring Me!” How to Create Kick-Ass Marketing Content, Products and Ideas Through the Power of Improv.” What do you call a book that helps marketers, entrepreneurs, product teams, branding, sales use improv to generate and tell massively creative stories, come up with better products and services and content and banish boring? You’d call that a must-read. That’s [...]

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About Kathy Klotz-Guest

By |2023-07-07T18:27:15+00:00January 22, 2017|

About Kathy & Keeping It Human®   Working with a Content Marketing Team Storytelling and creative strategy are in my DNA. At 8, my first oral presentation was about Harold Lloyd, Hollywood’s premiere comic stuntman of the silent film era.  I even mimed! My creative, storytelling, and humor-nerd superpowers were visible from space as a kid.Put More into Teams I ran teams in tech for 15 years - [...]

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Ten Brand Commandments – Co-Created Content

By |2017-02-21T22:25:31+00:00October 3, 2016|

A Little Background Vincenzo Landino and I chatted a few weeks back for his Brand Boost podcast. We talked about improv and marketing, Happy Days, how “human” – yes, still an important word – has also ironically jumped the marketing shark. We also talked about why all marketers should think like improvisers whose central tenet is “yes and.” That is how improvisers build scenes together. This means you accept a [...]