Karen Hough, Founder & CEO of ImprovEdge, and has been using improvisation as a catalyst for business training and consulting for more than 20 years. She won the Silver Stevie Award for Most Innovative Company, and the WNBA Inspiring Woman Award and her company is in the top 1% of U.S. woman-owned businesses.
Karen is a #1 Amazon Bestselling author and 800CEORead Top 25 Business Book recipient for “The Improvisation Edge: Secrets to Building Trust and Radical Collaboration at Work” and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post.
Karen's second, award-winning book “Be the Best Bad Presenter Ever: Break the Rules, Make Mistakes & Win Them Over" is available in four languages and won the Benjamin Franklin Gold Award for video content in an ebook. Her third book, "Go With It: Embrace the Unexpected to Drive Change" was published by Association for Talent Development in 2017.Karen is a national conference keynote speaker on topics such as negotiation, executive presence, presentation skills, leadership and business development. She is a graduate of Yale and La Sorbonne, Paris IV, and is deeply committed to philanthropic work. She lives with her husband and three children in Ohio.As a strategic business partner for her clients, Karen helps companies to develop talent. Her goal is to change and improve behavior by incorporating improv skills, research, psychology and neuroscience to help companies, teams, and individuals improve performance and increase engagement, Karen leads programs that may include:Specialties: Inspirational and learning-based speaking, executive coaching, facilitation of workshops in leadership, inclusion & diversity, women in leadership, sales, management, negotiation, teambuilding, innovation and creativity, communication, coaching, improvisational performance
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Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul by Stuart Brown
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