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Kat Koppett is the founder and president of Koppett, a consulting and training company specializing in the use of improvisation and storytelling to enhance workplace effectiveness. Kat has worked with organizations as diverse as Apple, Prezi, GE, Havas Health, the URJ, and the Clinton Global Initiative. Kat is the author of Training to Imagine: Practical Improvisational Theatre Techniques to Enhance Creativity, Teamwork, Leadership, and Learning, considered a seminal work in the field of applied improvisation. Kat has taught and spoken at RPI’s Lally School of Business Stanford and UC Berkeley, as well as ATD, ISPI, the YPA, NASAGA, AIN, and many other organizations. She has given two TEDx talks on the use of improv to enhance nontheatrical performance. Kat is co-director of the Mopco Improv Theatre and the creator of the full-length musical improv format “spontaneous Broadway,” for which  Theatreweek Magazine named her an Unsung Hero of the Year.

Kat Koppett

Improv Is the Gym for Building Resilience

April 2017 - TD Magazine

Improv-ing Your Listening Skills

To build successful and productive relationships in the workplace, you need to be a good listener. In “Listen Up!,” Michael Burns, Livia Armstrong, and Kat Koppett explain how improv skills also rely on listening. This issue of TD at Work can help you le

Listen Up!

The Facilitation Advantage: 10 Key Skills to Strengthen Any Leader

Listen Up! Improv-ing Your Listening Skills

Everyone from senior organizational leaders to salespeople to spouses knows that listening is a key skill necessary for understanding issues, uncovering needs, and building successful relationships. But what does it really mean to listen well? How can we grow our listening “muscles” rather than just talk about listening? How can we exercise that muscle so we notice more, understand more deeply, and engage with more curiosity?
Luckily for us, improvisers have answers to these questions. Improv is the listening gym. In this session, we will:

Test our listening skills.
Distinguish "listening as a friend” from “listening as a foe.”
Define multidimensional listening.
Explore listening as a relationship-building and problem-solving tool.

Be sure to join us for this interactive webcast on improv-ing your listening skills.

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