Organizational Improv™

• Organizational Improv™ is the application of tools, mindsets, and behaviors from improvisational comedy to the workplace to improve skills and culture, develop empathetic and creative leaders, and get better business results.
• Our Organizational Improv™ offerings, led by seasoned improv facilitators with deep business and organizational expertise, will get your team playing — and learning — like professionals. We go beyond the fun and games to unveil actionable insights that improve how business goals are pursued.
• Upskill your employees in essential workplace skills, including:

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Design Thinking Capacity Building

• We teach your organization how to apply human-centered approaches to discover your customers’ true needs and solve problems of any size using a design mindset. Our workshops are designed to develop team skillsets and spur collective creativity, innovation, and actionable results.
• Our Design Thinking capacity building experiences are informative and educational, experiential and fun, applicable and results-oriented.
• Upskill your employees in essential workplace skills, including:

White Privilege/Black Power Diversity & Inclusion Improv Show

Build a culture of success by cultivating a culture of inclusion.

Today’s savviest business leaders are moving beyond the politics of optics and diversity quotas. They are digging deeper to explore and cultivate true diversity as a critical component of their overall business strategy. And they are right to do so.

We love evidence just like you do and the data is in: diverse, equitable, and inclusive practices create higher-performing teams and improve business results.

DATA: Companies that have diverse and inclusive workforces are 35% more likely to outperform their competitors. (Source: McKinsey)

DATA: Organizations with inclusive cultures are six times more likely to be innovative, six times more likely to anticipate change and respond effectively, and two times as likely to meet or surpass financial goals. (Source: Deloitte)

DATA: More than 75% of job applicants say that a diverse workforce is an important factor when deciding where to work. (Source: Glassdoor)

DATA: Companies with above-average diversity in their leadership teams reported innovation revenue at rates 19 percentage points higher than those with below-average diversity in management. (Source: Boston Consulting Group)

We’d be irresponsible if we advised you on business innovation and didn’t also help you develop the kind of people and culture you need to make it happen. That’s why we created a one-of-a-kind experience that informs and engages your employees on essential topics related to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Mindhatch presents:

White Privilege/Black Power:
A Diversity & Inclusion Improv Show

A Refreshing Approach to DEI Education

In this award-winning improv show, veteran performers Greg Tindale and Eva Lewis bound wide-eyed into the awkward questions and conversations we’ve all been tip-toeing around. They skillfully draw in audiences with an inquisitiveness that is seemingly unburdened by consequence or social propriety.

The award-winning White Privilege/Black Power show is a wickedly brilliant, unflinching exploration of difference that deftly welcomes, disarms, invites introspection from the audience. The topic-driven performances tailored to your audience cover a wide range of diversity issues and are a delightfully warm and engaging blend of courage, vulnerability, deep listening, levity, and profound empathy.

The format—itself a lesson in authentic communication and impactful co–creation—is a deceptively simple one: Listen. Empathize. Contribute. Repeat.

Speaking Engagements

Mindhatch Founder & CEO Coonoor Behal is available to engage with your audience as speaker or panelist at your next conference, summit, or offsite. No boring “sage on the stage” here! Audience members will engage with her and with one another, taking away actionable insights, tools, and methods.

Current interactive talks include:

It Doesn’t Have to Be This Way: How Small Changes to Employee Experience Can Create Fewer Me’s In this talk, Coonoor Behal deftly weaves personal storytelling of her own “cautionary tales” with inspiration and tactical tips for cultivating incredible employee experiences for others. Many assume that creating incredible team and company cultures and engaging employees require Pixar-level budgets. But simple, cost-effective tactics and processes can create lasting impact for your employees. Coonoor shares her tips for leading workplaces with empathy and humanity, and creating cultures of innovation and creativity. Audiences will learn:

• Opportunities most leaders miss when it comes to cultivating an organizational culture
• How to view employee engagement and experience as strategic assets
• How to become a leader catalyst for innovation and creativity
• Actionable steps you can start taking today to cultivate a more innovative and creative team culture

Preventing and Addressing Microaggressions In this illuminating combination talk + workshop, Coonoor draws from her personal experiences with microaggressions and her DEI and Organizational Improv™ toolkits to guide attendees through a journey of learning, self-reflection, and empathy-building. Participants will engage with Coonoor and each other on topics related to understanding privilege, creating psychological safety, leading with curiosity and accountability, and receiving feedback without defensiveness. Audiences leave with practical tools and behaviors they can use to both prevent microaggressions from happening and to know how to react and respond when they occur.

An Improvisor’s Guide to Embracing & Thriving Amidst Organizational Change This energizing, motivational session inspires audiences to embrace organizational changes and uncertainty with the aplomb of an improv comedian! Participants learn specific improv skills and how they relate to managing organizational change, and get first-hand experience practicing them through paired and small group exercises. Themes addressed include:

• Yes, And
• Acting in the Absence of Complete Information
• Turning Mistakes into Opportunities

Panel Participation & Moderation

Coonoor is a thoughtful, authentic, and entertaining addition to any panel whose improv comedy performance background means she is also adept at sharing the spotlight with others.

As a panel moderator she is skilled at asking probing questions audiences want to hear, balancing information with entertainment, and adapting in the moment.

INVESTMENT: starts at $3,000