Our Berlin Adventure: Strategizing Workshops for International Teams
In this blog, Katie shares how the WitWorks co-founders prepared for their international workshop in Berlin with eBay’s global legal team. From accounting for English-as-a-second-language participants to navigating cultural nuances and engaging a few hundred people at once, they thoughtfully customized every detail to ensure connection and inclusion. The experience reinforced WitWorks’ belief that, much like fingerprints and snowflakes, no two workshops are ever the same, and that play is truly a universal language.
Bringing Your Whole Self to Work: How Improv Builds Authentic Leadership and Culture
In school I was the class clown, always told to sit still and tone it down. Years later improv showed me that the very things I was told to shrink were my greatest strengths. This blog is about how improv helps us bring our whole selves to work and why culture makes all the difference.
A Sneak Peek Into Improv Office Hours
WitWorks recently launched our first Improv Office Hours, a unique networking and learning event designed for business leaders, HR professionals, and L&D practitioners. Through interactive improv exercises, participants explored critical workplace skills like trust, agility, and vulnerability, while building authentic connections in the process. The result? Laughter, collaboration, and fresh insights leaders can bring back to their teams.
Team Building Through Improv: How WitWorks Accelerates the Five Stages of Team Development
Discover how WitWorks uses applied improv to move teams through Tuckman’s stages faster, building trust, adaptability, and collaboration.
Improv Was Missing: The Role Improv Plays in Adult Mental Health
In this blog, WitWorks co-founder Katie explores how improv comedy supports mental health and well-being for those who practice it. Drawing from personal experience and student reflections, she highlights improv’s powerful role in helping people reconnect with themselves and each other. Backed by science, the message is clear: play is part of our biology, and it fuels creativity, connection, productivity, and joy.
Be Changed: The Improv Principle That Teaches Real Leadership
When leaders allow themselves to be changed by what they hear, teams grow stronger. Learn how this improv principle drives trust, agility, and real connection at work.
Anxious, Invested, and Showing Up Anyway
In this blog, WitWorks co-founder Katie shares a personal story from the stage that led to a deeper reflection on nerves, anxiety, and caring deeply about your work. Despite years of experience, nerves still show up and instead of resisting them, Katie explores how these feelings can be reframed as signs of commitment, creativity, and heart. This post is for anyone who's ever felt anxious before a big moment. And especially for leaders looking to better understand and support their teams with empathy.