Connect w/People Using Humor as a Super Power w/Kathy Klotz-Guest

Want this year to be different for your life AND your work? Perhaps you need to laugh more and be a little more humorous.  Join me for a conversation with keynote speaker, author, and improv comedian Kathy Klotz-Guest as we dive into how we can transform our world with humor and laughter.

Kathy Klotz-Guest helps leaders and teams step up, speak up, and playfully and powerfully through stand-up. 

Playful, powerful, bold people change the world. During this Let's Talk: Laughter, Humor, and Owning Your Truth, Kathy will discuss how participants can build your brand through play and bold storytelling. 

Kathy Klotz-Guest, MA, MBA: Kathy is a keynote speaker, author, storyteller, creative strategist, and improv comedian. She helps transform leaders and teams into fully HUMAN communicators, storytellers, and creators. She does this effectively through improv and comedy principles. 

Comedy / Improv tools in business aren't about becoming a comedian. Instead, they help you get past perfectionism and fear, so you can confidently ditch the script and be more truthfully YOU. Playfulness makes us more powerfully innovative, connected, funnier and happier because we feel more confident. Imagine that impact!  

Kathy left her high-profile executive position as the Vice President of Marketing communications for a tech company in 2010 and started Keeping it Human to bring humanity into business. She has helped marketing, brand, HR, sales, technical execs/teams in tech, pharma, non-profit, healthcare:  - be more influential communicators (Amazon, Cisco, Kaiser Permanente, Portola Pharma) - tell bolder stories for successful pitches / close more business (TVLP Menlo Park, Portola Pharma) - generate new ideas for CX, marketing (Autodesk, United Way, Amazon, Cisco) - create successful content without the jargon-monoxide (United Way, IBM, Sprout Social, Autodesk) - improve leadership presence and speaking with humor (Women in Engineering, Amazon, Genentech, Stanford Hospital).

She is also the author of "Stop Boring Me! How to create kick-ass marketing content, stories, products and ideas through the power of improv" (Amazon). Inc.com named it a "CMO must-read."  

"Kathy's approach to creativity is inspired, fun, and unique. She helped us stretch the boundaries of content for our organization with such fresh thinking. I highly recommend!" - Sprout Social  EDUCATION.  

In addition to success in training and speaking, Kathy has taught improv at Second City LA and the Pear Performed improv and stand-up for over 20 years. 

She has an MA, Stanford University; MBA, UC Berkeley  

You can find Kathy at keepingithuman.com 408.578.8040

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kathyklotzguest/

Let's Talk is a bi-weekly conversation with leading executives, thought leaders, and changemakers. There are no presentations or talking heads, just people talking about career, family, and what matters the most to them.

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