By Ally Schweitzer
“That’s awesome!”
At least that’s what you do in
“Improv for Business Leaders,” a class that uses improvised comedy to
help Washingtonians sharpen their professional skills. In the course,
held in a basement in Northwest D.C., students scream their throats raw,
deliver ridiculous speeches and shout “That’s
awesome!” about things that certainly aren’t awesome
— all in the name of doing their jobs better.
The course is taught by the
founders of Unified Scene
Theater, a small operation headquartered in the
Bloomingdale neighborhood.
Instructors Shawn Westfall and Kathy Baird
Westfall, who are both performers with backgrounds in advertising, started the
class two years ago, after Baird Westfall had a breakthrough at an
executive leadership training.
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