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- So how did you come to leave information technology and start a company around improvisation
- So you started a company to do teambuilding using improvisation and created the course that you call TEAMprovising. Okay, let’s say I’m a manager. With all the different kinds of teambuilding out there, why choose a class on improvisation?
- What are the skills of improvisation that people help relate in TEAMprovising™?
- You mention the 5 C’s of teamwork. What’s that about?
- So how does someone with a background in improvisation − making everything up on the spot − and doing teambuilding work with improv suddenly become a motivational speaker? And where does improv fit into that?
- I know that one of your speeches − the one where you get the audience playing improv games from their seats or in online breakout rooms − is called “We Gotta Fail…To Succeed!” Tell me more about that theme. (and then my answers cover:
- what problems come from trying to be too perfect
- how do we bounce back from realizing that we’ve failed at something
- what’s a good outcome of failure that people miss out on?
- How do you get your audiences to buy into your theme?
- I get how you became a motivational speaker. But how did that lead to your becoming a coach, an author, and a speaker on the topic of public speaking?
- Would it be possible to try an improv game together right now?
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In 2000, Milo left fifteen years in Information Technology to apply his then-ten-year passion − improvisation − to business practices and professional development. His training program, “TEAMprovising”, creates team connectedness, improved communication and boosted innovation for groups as varied as engineers, processing clerks, surgeons, Marines, I.T. staff, and librarians.
As a member of the National Speakers Association, his interactive motivational speeches have delighted Southwest Airlines, Minolta, and General Dynamics. His customized “IMPROVfessionals” duo keynote show uses ten improv games to prove ten points on sales, management, teamwork, or other topics. Kodak, Pfizer, and Qualcomm have praised his creative methods.
His speeches draw from stories in his third book, “The Worst Days Make The BEST Stories!” True life tales with a lesson in each. It’s been called “what ‘Chicken Soup for the Soul’ might have sounded like if Jerry Seinfeld had written it.”
In 2004, Milo launched the coaching side of his business “Public Dynamics. He has worked with hundreds one-on-one (thousands if you count keynote audiences) to move them past the fear of speaking through his steps to being more “Prepared, Polished, and Powerful”. Readers can learn from his two books, “Public Speaking: Get A’s, Not Zzzzzz’s!” and its Young Adult sequel “Public Speaking for TEENS: Get A’s, Not Zzzzzz’s!” which hit #2 on Amazon.
Milo is a San Diego based, but works with clients worldwide via Zoom and travels as need be for his keynote programs and teambuilding to share his “seriously funny lessons”. Learn more at www.MiloShapiro.com .
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In 2000, Milo left fifteen years in Information Technology to pursue his then-ten-year passion: applying improvisation to business practices and development. His training program, “TEAMprovising”, creates team connectedness, improved communication and boosted innovation for groups as varied as engineers, processing clerks, surgeons, Marines, I.T. staff, and librarians.
As a member of the National Speakers Association, his interactive motivational speeches have delighted Southwest Airlines, Minolta, and General Dynamic. His customized “Improvfessionals” duo keynote show uses ten improv games to prove ten points on sales, management, teamwork, or other topics. Kodak, Pfizer, and Qualcomm have praised his creative methods.
In 2004, Milo launched the coaching side of his business “Public Dynamics”, helping individuals become more prepared, polished and powerful upon the platform including CEOs at Sharp Health Care. A speech based on his book “Public Speaking: Get A’s, Not Zzzzzz’s!” provides a fresh voice on this old topic. Visit www.MiloShapiro.com .
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In 2000, Milo left fifteen years in Information Technology to pursue his passion: applying improvisation to business practices and personal development. Through his teamwork course “TEAMprovising” , he creates team connectedness, improved communication and boosted innovation (programmers at Sempra Energy, engineers at Qualcomm…even surgeons at AOSpine).
His interactive improv-game motivational speeches have delighted Southwest Airlines, Minolta, and Pfizer.
As a speaking coach, Milo has helped hundreds (including top management at Sharp Health Care) become more prepared, polished and powerful. A speech about his book “Public Speaking: Get A’s, Not Zzzzzz’s!” provides a fresh voice on this old topic. Visit www.MiloShapiro.com .
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In 2000, Milo left fifteen years in Information Technology to pursue his then-18-year passion: applying improvisation to business practices and personal development.
His teamwork course “TEAMprovising” improved communication and boosted innovation for programmers at Sempra Energy, engineers at Qualcomm…even surgeons at AOSpine.
With 10+ years in National Speakers Association, this motivational speaker and public speaking coach has entertained and educated through lecture and improv-related speeches, delighting Southwest Airlines, Minolta, The US Navy, and Pfizer. www.MiloShapiro.com
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After 15 years of Information Technology, Milo Shapiro created “IMPROVentures” in 2000. He offers TEAMprovising – teambuilding communication exercises based in lessons of improvisation; solo motivational speaking and duo keynote entertainment where improvisation proves business points; and, in 2004, he created “Public Dynamics” − his speaking skills coaching practice. www.MiloShapiro.com
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After 15 years of Information Technology, Milo Shapiro created “IMPROVentures” in 2000. He offers TEAMprovising – teambuilding communication exercises based in lessons of improvisation, solo and duo keynote entertainment, and, in 2004, he began public speaking skills coaching for others. www.MiloShapiro.com
Best way to contact me? Call me old school, but email by far suits me best to start: improv@IMPROVentures.com .
To learn more about my work overall: www.MiloShapiro.com
To learn more about my speaking coaching specifically: www.PublicDynamics.com
Then, after that by all means, let’s find a time for a call or Zoom to really talk! Thanks!
Copyright 2023, Milo Shapiro.