Dan is an improviser. Other than two months as a lifeguard at the YMCA, every job he has ever had came from improvisational theater. As a Lecturer in Theater and Performance Studies and a Lecturer of Management at the Stanford GSB, Dan spends his time sharing, coaching, facilitating and playing games. His is a founding member of the award winning sketch comedy group Kasper Hauser, and author of 6 books, including Skymaul, Skymaul 2 and Obama’s Blackberry. At the GSB, Dan teaches Generative Leadership STRGM 259 and co- teaches Acting With Power OB333 with Deb Gruenfeld. At the d.school, Dan teaches Improv & Design, ReDesigning Theater, and Game Design: Making Fun. When not in the classroom, Dan is either on the road teaching leadership communication with Stand & Deliver, or helping look after Rinconada, the all freshman dorm where he and his wife a Resident Fellows. Dan’s mission is to spread the Improviser’s Mindset around the entire world. Yes, let’s!

1. Creativity in
Your Career
Making Improv Work for You
with Dan Klein, Lecturer
GSB, Theater and d.school

2. The Improv Advantage
 Boost Your Creativity
 Expand Your Status
 Revitalize Your Play

3. Boost Your Creativity
 Accept Your Partners Offers
 Say ‘Yes, and…’
 Be Obvious
 It’s Not About You
 Mistakes Are Gifts
 Just Do What’s Needed
 Imagination Is Simply Perception

4. Expand Your Status
 The Ways you Move and Speak Send
Status Signals to Everyone, Including
Yourself
 Status Is a Strategy
 Your Preferred Status Is Just a Habit
 High and Low Status Can be Combined
With High and Low Connection

5. Even Numbered B-Day
Maintain eye contact when you
speak to people.
Don’t worry if they look away
You can move on whenever you
want

6. Odd Numbered B-Day
Fidget – never quite be still
Adjust yourself – clothes, hair, etc.
Touch your face a lot

7. Revitalize Your Play
 We All Used To Play
 We Are Often Best Remembered For Our
Play
 Play Is One of the Fastest Ways to Bond
 Our Own Childhood Play Profile Is the Best
Clue About How to Bring Play Back Into
Our Lives

8. Play Personalities
 The Joker
 The Kinesthete
 The Explorer
 The Competitor
 The Director
 The Collector
 The Artist/Creator

9. Books
 Improv Wisdom, Patricia Ryan Madson
 Mindset,Carol Dweck
 Impro, Keith Johnstone
 You Just Don’t Understand, Deborah
Tannan
 Play,Stuart Brown

10. Thank You!
 Dan Klein: kleinimp@stanford.edu