What is This Program?

No matter what your current role or experience level, this unique course will help set you apart with greater trust building skills, improved listening, and persuasiveness. In a one day intensive you will “work out” in the improv gym your sales muscles in new ways to propel you on your leadership journey. As an inspiring sales professional you will walk away stronger and ready to communicate with new found clarity and purpose. This course includes two modules: The “How of Influence” (Status, Presence, Personal Performance) and “The What of Influence” (Storytelling and Honing Your Message).

You will receive individualized small group coaching, a certificate of completion, and a copy of Kat Koppett’s book Training to Imagine: Practical Improvisational Theatre Techniques to Enhance Creativity, Teamwork, Leadership, and Learning.

Who Should Attend?

Any leader who wants to build communication, connection, and influencing skills. Ideal for you if you are a:

• Sales Professional

• Business Development Leader

• Sales or Account Manager

• Sales or Account Excecutive

What are the Course Objectives?

• Identify behaviors and mindsets to increase impact and influence

• Practice behaviors that build trust and encourage respectful communication

• Practice intentional behavioral choices aligned with influence & relationship objectives that drive your key message

• Understand the power of story and adapting stories based on listener feedback

• Acquire tools for identifying your key message and the needs of your audience/customer

• Use structures to create well-organized narratives that drive your key message

• Identify ambient narratives and communication traps to avoid

• Receive and apply individual coaching and feedback

Why Invest in This Course?

One additional client. One upgraded contract. One “yes” that wouldn’t have happened before. That’s all it takes to recoup your investment—and likely much more. This course builds skills that create immediate shifts in presence, confidence, and connection—traits that consistently translate into higher conversions and long-term client relationships. The return isn’t just financial—it’s your future impact, growth, and finding the fun in your work.

Who are the Facilitators?

• Kat Koppett is a globally recognized authority in applied improvisation and organizational development. As founder and president of Koppett, she has worked with world-leading organizations including Apple, GE, Prezi, Havas Health, and the Clinton Global Initiative. Kat’s expertise has shaped leaders across industries and continents, and her book Training to Imagine is considered a seminal text in the field. She is also a TEDx speaker, award-winning educator, and a driving force behind experiential learning worldwide.

• After 25 years as an entrepreneur and play expert on GlobalTV, Kirsten Anderson sold her award-winning toy store to bridge her expertise in leadership with the bottom-line benefits of playfulness in all aspects of work. Some of Kirsten’s fun hats are international keynote speaker, facilitator, team event off-sites, experiential learning designer, executive coach and founder of Integrate Play Solutions. Kirsten is helping teams improve performance, creativity, culture, communication, and psychological safety utilizing playful methods such as Applied Improvisation and LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®. Because spreadsheets rarely build trust, but play can be the building bricks for teams to Play Well Together. Kirsten works with Kat as the Vice President of Koppett Canada.