Humor is the secret sauce to braver people, culture, innovation
To be competitive and innovative globally, your company has to be a great place people WANT to work at. It’s getting harder to do.
Creativity and Innovation live at the intersection of courage, trust & connection. These look a lot like humor. It’s not about telling jokes at the water-cooler.
While leading tech teams (product, marketing & comms) by day, and working as a stand-up, improv and sketch comedian by night for 20+ years, I learned:
- The biggest laughs come from trust and connection. Laughter builds community
- The biggest standing ovations come when courage filled the air.
- When connection was strongest, so was innovation.
I got curious: Is this how I get my team to create better stories, campaigns, customer service ideas? Turns out, yes.
Trust, connection and courage lead to innovation, stories, comms. Humor & laughter open that door. Humor is Brave Fuel℠.
That led me to start my business, write my top-selling book, “Stop Boring Me!”, create the popular LinkedIn Learning Course: Leading with Improv and advise global senior leaders and teams on braver culture.
Humor isn’t about just being funnier and less boring; it’s about adaptability creativity, collaboration and people who flourish even during uncertainty.
Leaders, ready for you and your teams to be braver? Let’s talk!
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“Thank you, Kathy, for keynoting The 2021 Women’s Center’s Leadership Conference: Learn, Pivot, Grow! We were so inspired by your story. You were insightful and funny…which is a winning combination. Thank you for sharing yourself with us!” – Rachna Krishma, Women’s Center Conference Board
“Funny, smart, refreshingly relevant and inspiring!” – Rachel Kumar, attendee, on Kathy’s 2020 Speaking Your Brand Keynote
“Kathy had us laughing and made is safe to make the behavior changes. She’s hilarious and cares about people’s ability to grow and learn. People still talk about her talk and ‘YES AND’ as a mindset for life.” – Sandy Carter, AWS Leader
“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 AMA President, Gina Bonar
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