Bloomingdale’s The Unified Scene Theater and its co-founder, Kathy Baird Westfall, featured In Forbes Magazine

Bloomingdale’s The Unified Scene Theater And Its Co-founder, Kathy Baird Westfall, Featured In Forbes Magazine

Bloomingdale’s The Unified Scene Theater and its co-founder, Kathy Baird Westfall, were recently profiled by Forbes magazine, where Kathy spoke about the intersection between her improv comedy background and her digital advertising career at Ogilvy & Mather. Discussing how the principles behind improv comedy help shape better leaders — principles which inform both the classes we teach at the theater and the on-site events we provide through the theater’s sister company, Commedia Partners, LLC — Kathy said: "[A]bout 6 years ago I signed up for an improv comedy class. I was sold after the first hour, and I’ve been active ever since....During an intensive leadership training I went through as part of my job, I sensed that what they were actually teaching was improv. I call it Leadership as Improvisation, Improvisation as leadership....Essentially, we teach the benefits of improv and translate that to the professional environment – teamwork, listening, creative collaboration, building trust, 'going off script,' and frankly just being a better human. I truly believe that I’m good at what I do, and even better at what I do now because of my background in theater, especially improv.”

More from this interview here…

Shawn Westfall
Artistic Director
The Unified Scene Theater
shawn@unifiedscenetheater.com