MILO SHAPIRO
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WE GOTTA FAIL… TO SUCCEED!
The most playful, interactive keynote on the market.
Featuring all of your attendees playing improv games with the leader!
In the first half, Milo’s personal stories, historic tales, and challenging ideas, lead us in looking at our personal relationship with risk, change and even failure at times, so we can liberate ourselves to let innovation thrive and capitalize on our brilliance. Half-way in, Milo relates this all to improv, where nothing’s ever certain! He then leads fun, easy improv activities attendees play in their seats, customizing the lessons, when appropriate, to the roles/industry of your audience.
Laughter quickly fills the room as your active participants recognize their own communication quirks that both hinder and help them succeed. In his most booked speech, Milo brings focus to what failure really means to each of us, answering how we can:
- Create an environment where it is safe to let innovation thrive
- Minimize negative effects of failure so we are more free to take calculated risks
- Release ourselves so that we (and the groups we support) get to capitalize on our brilliance!
Using stories that include:
- how Milo got DMV to take an innovative approach to a big problem
- Mom’s cooking safaris
- how failure paid off in the Women’s Rights movement
Milo ties together life lessons in a way that will make you laugh and learn. Then comes the interactive improv fun where everyone gets to play along!
Depending upon the length of the presentation, Milo leads the whole group in between one and four of his interactive improv games, including a couple of Failure Games. These exciting, playful exercises, which can be done from the participants seats, are designed to create challenges we cannot win to see how we handle the process of trying.
PUBLIC SPEAKING: GET A’S, NOT ZZZZZZ’S!
Improve presentation skills with Coach Milo’s fun approach to speaking.
A Fresh Look At This Age-Old Challenge
In Milo’s presentation on public speaking skills, the audience enjoys a well-rounded, interactive program on key points from his book below.
With his playful, story-filled approach, Milo will cover these topics and more:
- Capturing the power of story over lecture
- Using your body to create imagery
- Seven Variants of Vocal Variety™
- Four Steps to Successful Speech Structure™
- Taking control of Q&A time
- Ways we alienate and distract audiences
Milo ties it all together in a program with so much fun and aha‘s that people won’t even mind learning!
DUO IMPROV ENTERTAINMENT KEYNOTES
With titles like “Whose Line-Manager Is It Anyway?” and “Laugh In the Fast Lane”, these entertaining duo presentations are as much a show as they are a keynote.
The IMPROVfessionals “top-ten” style lists are improv shows, customized to the focus of the gathering. We’ve been asked to entertain on ten points such as:
- management and teamwork
- sales
- event planning
- social blunders (for a non-work party)
For each point we cover, a life story and/or an improv game is performed by the duo to prove our point.
Attendees love that they get a live spontaneous comedy show; planners love that ten solid business lessons are memorable in format so funny that it can even work for a holiday party.
What are some of the variations we’ve worked with? Here are our two most popular requests:
“Laugh in the Fast Lane”
Here, all ten points are sales-oriented for a sales team audience, giving sales agents and managers some key reminders and some playful tools to make it easier to face their challenging business. Points include:
- “Never make the customer wrong”
- “Presentation counts”
- “Be creative – even within your guidelines”
“This was just the energy booster we needed to laugh at ourselves a bit and then focus on what we need to get done.” – Kodak
“Whose Line-Manager Is It Anyway?”
Our most requested version! Getting along in business environments is tough! As we announce our ten business principles here, we often hear groans and chuckles of recognition that tell us we’re on target. The crowd is laughing but they’re getting the message, too, as we hit upon principles like:
- Trying to rush quality results
- Putting too many resources on an issue
- Avoiding micro-managment
- Adapting to personality types
“Four stars!” – Pfizer Pharmaceuticals
Here’s just one game as an example of how improv can prove business points. This manager (an audience volunteer) was asked “What’s something you know a lot about?” His answer was, “Hard Work”.
PROFESSIONAL SIMON SAYS
Wake up the room with “Simon Says”, a great, playful interaction for grown-ups — thirty years later!
We’ll discover that, not only have we not outgrown it —we aren’t a bit better at it!
Listening is challenging…and, in this case, funny!
The concept is simple enough:
- Do what Milo says only when he says “Simon Sez”.
- And if Milo does something different than what he says?
- Again, do what he says. Should be easy, right?
- Not the way adults tend to anticipate!
Lightly competitive, this fun challenge fully engages the brain (especially as Milo gets trickier!)
Not really a keynote, but Milo’s speaking portion up front psyches up the attendees to play and gives them some valuable thoughts to apply to their listening skills.