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    3 research-backed improv tricks to help manage stress

    Fast Company

    Here’s how improv-inspired practices can help regulate your nervous system, quiet your inner critic, and meet chaos with curiosity.

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    6 Best Business Management Courses For Elevating Your Business Career

    Forbes

    Forbes put Improve at the top of the list of the 6 best business management courses.

     

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    Why Is It So Hard to Talk About Salary, Especially at Work?

    New York Times

    “If every time I go for a run I stub my toe or twist my ankle, I’m probably not going to be excited to go for a run again,” Ms. Lemmer said. “To have those conversations go so poorly — that really created a fear.”

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    8 Leadership Lessons

    Thrive Global

    Perhaps one of the most relevant lessons to learn amidst a pandemic is how to pivot into new spaces...“To prepare yourself to pivot into new spaces, practice listening to others, making your own observations, and then thinking creatively...

    A Leadership and Life Tool That You Didn’t Know You Needed? Improv.

    The Wie Suite

    Every leader needs to be able to improvise and improvise well, because every leader is an improviser – constantly creating and inspiring while managing amidst change, uncertainty, and many things outside of their control...

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    Using Improv to Transform the Business World

    The University of Michigan

    “Everything is designed with the organization in mind,” Lemmer said. “I came from the business world first and speak their language. The improv exercises are a means to achieve the desired outcomes for the companies. It’s like giving people M&Ms that are packed with vitamins. It’s going to be fun and it’s going to be effective in reaching your goals.”

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    I stopped using screens on Sundays. This is how it changed my life

    FastCompany

    Taking one day away from technology each week has helped me realize my resiliency, and inspired confidence.

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    23 Inspiring Women to Follow and Connect With on LinkedIn in 2025

    Dreamers & Doers

    On LinkedIn, I share practical techniques for individuals and teams to navigate uncertainty, change, chaos, and opportunity through improv comedy. With simple exercises and mindset shifts, people can transform from feeling stressed and overwhelmed to...

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