Companies, organizations and universities are turning to improv exercises for interpersonal skill building, leadership and teamwork. Media case studies by companies such as Forbes, CNN and Slate have reported that improv training is incredibly beneficial in the workplace, and is proven to:
To provide a fun, interactive, hands-on instructional learning experience for employees, while simultaneously showing appreciation and gratitude for all that they do.
Each workshop is intended to celebrate, reinforce and motivate individual and collective efforts, all of which play an integral part in the success of the company. The focus is on “yes, and” games and role play scenarios for team members. This builds trust within the core group, while emphasizing effective communication on the fly.
A Cool Beans Comedy professional conducts an interactive workshop focused on enhancing team building, improvisational skill-sets, and active listening, all in a group social experience that keeps paying off long after the session is over.
A run of improv exercises chosen to move a room from polite to genuinely connected, with each one mapped to a skill that follows people back to work.
Corey Martin Craig is the premier comedy coach in Los Angeles and the founder of Cool Beans Comedy, the top comedy school and brand in L.A. Author of Stand-Up Comedy for Beginners, a four-time TEDx speaker, and a regular leader of team-building workshops for businesses and organizations across Los Angeles, including AllSafe IT.
Credits include coaching numerous Nickelodeon series-regular actors, leading comedy workshops at SAG-AFTRA, and privately coaching actors for television and film auditions. An award-winning comedy producer, director, and actor, with appearances on FOX, ABC, NBC, Showtime, TNT, Netflix, and Nickelodeon.
Workshops are priced on group size and length, and the number covers instructors, curriculum built around your goals, all materials, setup, and travel. If we host you at the Ice House, the venue and any catering are passed through at cost, with no markup from us.
None at all, and most have none. Nobody performs alone in the workshop, nobody is dragged up in front of the room, and every exercise is built so a brand new hire and a twenty-year veteran get the same amount out of it. The people who tell me beforehand that they are not funny are reliably the ones who end up running the room.
Small teams up to large ones. The design changes with the size so that people are participating rather than watching from the back. Tell me your headcount and I will tell you the shape that works.
Yes, and that is a deliberate design constraint, not a promise we make and hope. The material is HR-conscious and stays consistent with your brand. If there are topics you want off the table, tell me up front and they are off the table.
Either at your office or at the Ice House in Pasadena, the oldest comedy club in the country, where we teach and produce. On-site is simpler and cheaper. The club is the one people still talk about. Showcases are almost always at the club, because the stage is the point.
We do. We also produce private stand-up showcases, where your own team writes their own material with us and performs it on the Ice House stage in a single day. It is the most memorable thing we do, and it is a bigger lift. Happy to walk you through it once we have got your team in a room.
Tell me your group size, a rough window, and what you are hoping people walk away with. I will send real numbers the same day. A deposit holds the date and the instructors once you pick one.
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