“ It’s my hope you’ll enjoy Improv to Improve Your Leadership Team as much as I did. I am grateful to creative thinkers like Candy who challenge us to learn and grow in ways we may never have considered. ” – Quint Studer, Healthcare Solutions Group, Author, The Calling: Why Healthcare Is So Special “ Dr. Campbell has done something truly remarkable. By combining the fun and creativity of improv with documented, empirical research, she has written a user’s manual for building a cohesive, energized, and effective team. Leaders, take note: when you follow Campbell’s blueprint, your team will feel more valued, more respected, and more engaged. ” –Bill Stainton, CSP, CPAE, 29-time Emmy Winner, Hall of Fame Innovation Speaker You’re a leader with a problem. There’s a fungus-like growth in your organizational culture you can no longer ignore. It starts slowly with a few people feeling maligned and/or excluded, spreads resentment, leads to disengagement, and finally…resignations. What a nightmare! But WAIT! You have stumbled onto the exact solution you need! With this book, you can QUICKLY discover how to use the principles of applied improvisational exercises from the arts to help teams effectively connect and communicate, creatively problem-solve, increase workplace safety and employee retention, and guarantee client and stakeholder satisfaction. It’s all contained here. Candy Campbell did a masterful job with her book Improv to Improve Your Leadership Team. In this time of the great resignation, Candy focuses on the crucial element of workplace culture - communication. This book is a must-read for leaders looking to up their communication game in a fun, compelling, and effective way. You'll find many activities that you can easily implement with your team and see immediate results. As long as you are willing to step out of your comfort zone, try something different, and don't take yourself so seriously, you and your team will benefit from bringing in a little improv to improve your company culture. Thanks so much, Candy, for writing this book and introducing this content at a time when it is so desperately needed. --Lisa Ryan, CSP, Chief Appreciation Strategist at Grategy Candy Campbell clearly knows her stuff! She does an outstanding job of showing the reader how improv can play a crucial role in our work. It isn’t just a technique for stage, it is an action for life! --Laurie Guest, CSP, CPAE, Author and Hall of Fame Speaker® Creativity and innovation are vital to create change and positive transformations in today’s business enterprise. In Improv to Improve your Leadership Team, Dr. Candy Campbell has created a playbook for leaders to activate creativity, innovation, and an improvisational leadership style. She shares principles, practices, tips, and resources that will reframe and transform the way you approach your everyday leadership responsibilities. Read her book, practice the techniques, and be surprised about the differences in culture you can create with an improvisational mind set. --Daniel J. Pesut, PhD, RN, FAAN, Emeritus Professor and Emeritus Chair in Nursing Leadership, University of Minnesota School of Nursing Candy Campbell , DNP, RN, CNL, LNC, CVP, FNAP, is an award-winning actor, author, and filmmaker. Candy assists individuals and teams to solve communication challenges and make the workplace a safer place to learn and grow. As a professional actor and cofounder of an improv company, Dr. Campbell has been sharing the joys of applied improv to businesses and people of all ages and stages since 1995. When she’s not presenting transformational keynotes, facilitating leadership retreats, or executive speech-coaching, she’s likely on the road with her third solo show, An Evening With Florence Nightingale: The Reluctant Celebrity ...or playing with her grandkids.