Note ***(I realized it’s kind of funny that I haven’t written any articles directly addressing cultivating charisma (or leadership) for that matter since I’ve started my blog. After reading a post by Dan over at CharismaTips.com split from Charisma Arts, he has since pumped out a slew of quality posts, I decided it was time for me to write something on my thoughts on directly related charisma. This is the first post of a two-part series)

After over a year and a half of improvisational comedy training at The Second City and The Impatient Theatre Company, along with much thought and experimentation and of course countless conversations with literally hundreds of random strangers, I can see the parallels between being charismatic and using principles founded on improvisational comedy (improv) being: Read the rest of this entry »

For those of you who are wondering what improv classes are like, I decided to post some videos of my first performance in front of a live audience. Nerve wracking? Nah, the problem among budding improvisers is performance anxiety and getting out our heads to get to the point where we’re just “being” and feeling the “is-ness” of a scene. While it sounds a bit esoteric, as a beginner improviser each of our sketches abide by these three pillars of improv in order to drive a scene forward: Read the rest of this entry »