“If Steve Martin and Oprah Winfrey had a baby and hired Tina Fey to raise it, you might get someone as bright, funny, insightful and inspiring as Katie Goodman.”
“Katie Goodman was a pleasure to work with, and provided us with a lively and interactive mainstage keynote for our 2,500+ audience. Her message was inspiring, playful, funny and got our participants energized!”
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— Lisa Kaplan, ICAN Executive Women’s Conference
“Katie Goodman’s facilitation at Women Project Managers Leadership Day was impactful! She brought ideas that helped the room connect, have fun, and think differently, with just the right amount of ‘push’ outside of comfort zones.”
Topics include:
Katie's Keynote and Break-Out Session topics are customizable for your event. Katie will work closely with you to develop a unique expression of your convention’s vision or company’s mission.
The 8 Tools Of Improv Comedy
Katie Goodman uses her 8 Tools Of Improv Comedy to create fun, lively and interactive keynotes, leading her audience through exercises specifically focused on helping participants connect, gain confidence, and adapt to change. Skills of improv include: collaboration, not being “thrown” by the unexpected, discovering how constraint breeds creativity, and adopting a culture of "yes, and!" Attendees will learn how to excavate their authentic selves, cultivate flexibility and gain confidence.
Authentic Leadership
Have you ever had that moment when you're laughing together at work and you think, "This is why I like working here.” As leaders, it's our authentic moments of sharing and humor that make us relatable and allow us to build trust quickly and deeply with employees. These are the moments when they see who we really are. In this interactive keynote, you will learn to connect with the most authentic part of yourself so that you can better engage with people as a leader at work and in life.
Gag Your Inner Critic
Our Inner Critic keeps us from reaching our potential and living our best life. In a company, it keeps people from taking creative and innovative leaps, from supporting each other, and slows down progress. We can learn to transform our Inner Critic to a helpful Inner Coach that blazes the way for our personal growth and confidently allows us to show up fully and reach our potential.
Team Building: Reconnect, Collaborate and Innovate
Improv games and exercises inspire people and teams to become comfortable taking creative risks for their business and personal lives, so they end up with something new and brilliant. As employees are feeling disconnected due to remote work or being scattered across the country or planet, this interactive keynote will engage teams through activities that are insightful, bonding, and fun.
Resiliency: How To Thrive In The Unknown
Adapting and innovating as you move forward is crucial for a business and for our personal lives in a quickly-changing world. Katie will lead you through learning how to actually love the stages of being lost and the thrill of coming out the other side with new ideas and ready for action.
Women Killing It: Now Is Our Time
For all women — leaders, employees, teams, and individuals — this is the time we’ve been waiting for. Katie will teach you How to Own Your Authentic Voice and support other women through collaboration, the “Yes And” Principle, and speaking up.
The Tools of Improv Teach Us To Adapt Brilliantly To Change
Katie’s Interactive Live and Virtual Keynotes Engage Your Employees and Participants!
Katie Goodman uses her 8 Tools Of Improv Comedy to create fun, lively and interactive keynotes, leading the audience through creative and insightful exercises that inspire participants to connect, gain confidence, move away from fear, collaborate and adapt to change. The skills of improv include: collaboration, not being “thrown” by the unexpected, using constraint to breed creativity, and adopting a culture of "yes, and!" Attendees will learn how to excavate their authentic selves, cultivate flexibility and gain confidence. Improv teaches profoundly important skills in a fun and easy-to-learn way. After this interactive keynote, you will feel energized and enthusiastic, ready to put these tools into practice immediately.
"The goal isn't to keep chaos or change from happening—because it's all unpredictable. The goal is to practice improvising throughout life so you become flexible and courageous and can handle anything."
- Katie Goodman
“Katie Goodman is the ONLY keynote speaker I have ever seen capture the attention of every single member of a 1300+ audience! I am so amazed that she has mastered the ability to energize a broad range of emotions, causing them to laugh while still pausing for reflection. If you are looking for a way to create engagement and energy amongst your group and gathering, Katie is perfect. With her, your audience becomes an interactive community.”
“Bravo to Katie! She brings an amazing positivity to improv comedy. The bottom line: Katie is funny. She teaches you to live your life like an improv scene — no fear and fully committed.”
— WAYNE BRADY, WHO'S LINE IS IT ANYWAY? & LET'S MAKE A DEAL
“Katie’s invigorating presentation and insights inspired our Henry Schein Women’s Leadership members and played a noteworthy role in helping to keep this network of women on a path to greatness. She gave us everything we hoped for!”
“Katie Goodman is simply incredible. As the keynote speaker at our first national #NoMeanGirls Conference in Dallas, Texas, she ‘rocked’ the house. Through her beautiful use of improv comedy exercises and poignant commentary, this vivacious power-chick has an amazing ability to read and connect with your audience. You get 110% with Katie Goodman. She is the REAL deal.”
The Top 7 Take-aways from Katie's Keynote Speeches
1. Be flexible. Or you'll get left behind.
2. Gag that Inner Critic! Turn your Inner Critic into a factual, non-judgmental helpful Inner Coach.
3. Practice spontaneity every day so it comes to you easily.
4. Surrender the preconceived goal. Use it as a guide only. There's way more to be found than just that measly thing you could dream up at the beginning.
5. Learn to love being lost. You can’t grow without it.
6. Take creative risks. You won’t die. You probably won't even get sent off on an ice flow.
7. Be authentic. When you are authentic there will invariably be people who don't accept you. In that case you just have to be your own unique self without apology.
