With titles like "Whose Line-Manager Is It Anyway?" and "Laugh In the Fast Lane",  these entertaining duo keynote presentations are as much a show and an activity as they are speeches.  The amount of learning vs. entertainment is highly customizable, as is the amount of audience involvement.  This presentation is generally performed as a team effort (known as "The Improvfessionals") between Milo Shapiro with another experienced keynote improviser, like Lee Krevat who is pictured here.

The Improvfessionals "top-ten" style lists are created to suit the nature of the gathering (whether it be management, teamwork, sales, or simply social).  For each of the ten issues, a life story and/or an improv game is used to make the point.  

How can improv make points?  Here's an example:

A key principle that applies to almost any theme we take on is that you cannot keep cutting the time invested and expect results of the same quality.   We play the game "Half Time" to prove this point.  In "Half Time", an improvised scene is done in exactly one minute.  Then the same scene is run in 30 seconds.   Then in 15.  Then in 8!   And sometimes only 4 seconds!  The audience is delighted to see what details will remain to keep the essence of the scene together as we face these devastating time crunches.

This is just one of the many games we tailor to meet the concepts on the Top 10 list.  (Click to see a recently performed top 10)

And your audience KNOWS how customized the show is because THEY tell us what the scene will be about!  

Part of what makes this such fun is that we DO make your people stars in the presentation as well.  Carefully chosen games can include your more playful attendees.  And games can be led from the podium that are done in pairs at tables, giving everyone a chance to stretch their minds and have fun without being in performance mode.  Plus, you can count on clean comedy because it's all that we do.

Click here to see/print a brochure for the "Top Ten" presentation.

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  What are some of the variations we've worked with?  
  Here are our three most popular requests:  

"Laugh In the Fast Lane" uses the top-ten list improv concept described above. Here, all the 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".

As Kodak told us after their national sales conference, "This was just the energy booster we needed to laugh at ourselves a bit and then focus on what we need to get done."

Our most requested version!  Getting along in our complex business environment is tough!  As we announce our ten business principles here, we often hear groans and chuckles of recognition that tell us we're hitting the target.  The crowd may be laughing but they're getting the message, too, as we hit upon principles like:

- "Change Is Constant"
- "Putting More People on a Project Does Not Necessarily Speed It Up"
- "Collaboration Creates Success"
- "Make Sure Your Message Is Understood"
    

Rather than come up with yet ANOTHER name for our presentation for non-business audiences, we again use the title "Laugh In the Fast Lane".  Here we use the top-ten list improv concept, described in the other presentations, but our focus now is just a fun discussion of getting along with other people in this crazy world of ours.

Rather than using business terms like "Avoid Micro-Management", we use the principle "Don't be such a control freak!" and the improv game works just as well for your social event.  Tales of our families, natural science, and personal adventures boost this non-business, improv-based show to a fun level your attendees/guests will discuss for months.