Erin Diehl

Are you a leader or change maker inside of your business, organization, or corporation?

Are you looking for fun and exciting ice breakers, team building exercises, and activities that will foster team growth, friendships, and loyalty, and completely transform your organization from the inside out?

Have you been searching for a fun and unique way to create change instead of the same ol' dry, boring, leadership books and ice breakers that aren't actually working?

Hi, I'm Erin Diehl - Business Improv Edutainer, Failfluencer, and Professional Zoom-bie who is ready to help you improve it. I'm a graduate from Clemson University, a former experiential marketing and recruiting professional, as well as a veteran improviser from the top improvisational training programs in Chicago including The Second City, i.O. Theater, and The Annoyance Theatre. And my mission in life is to help you develop teams and leaders through play, improv, and experiential learning.

Empirical evidence has shown that improvisational training can enhance professional development, team building, effective communication, networking, presentation skills, leadership capabilities, the act of thinking quickly on your feet, and everything in between. Working with interns, emerging leaders, individual contributors, new managers, senior leaders, and C-Suite executives, I've seen how improv can improve lives and along the way, I've also coerced over 28,000 professionals to chicken dance with me!

My company, improve it!, has helped everyone, from Fortune 500 companies to small mom and pop shops, transform their business, their leadership, and their people - through play. Our work with clients such as United Airlines, Paylocity, PepsiCo, Uber Freight, Adobe, Aon, Groupon, Warby Parker, Deloitte, Pfizer, Motorola Solutions, Walgreens, and The Obama Foundation earned us the 2014 Chicago RedEye Big Idea Award, in addition to a Chicago Innovation Award nomination every year since 2015. I've had the privilege of speaking on stages nationwide for all types of events and associations including DisruptHR, SHRM, HRMAC, and ATD, and I'm a proud member of The Chicago Innovation Awards Women's Cohort and graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program.

I truly believe that by using improvisational comedy as the vessel to train on soft skills, we can break down barriers in our lives. It's in breaking down those barriers that real learning occurs and when that happens –people become their best selves both personally and professionally.

So – grab your chicken hat, we are about to have FUN.