What happens when, after a range of careers (incl. smokejumper, documentary filmmaker, and activist in Central America!) you find out your calling is using improv to teach others how to be more authentic communicators? Yeah…we didn’t know either until we met this week’s guest: Cort Worthington, a Distinguished Teaching Fellow at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. 

He teaches one of the legendary courses at Berkeley called Leadership Communications, which focuses on soft-skill leadership trait development with an emphasis on improvisation. You might call it public speaking, but it’s much more than that - it’s really about finding your authentic leadership style, and honing your communications skills to live it out.

Cort bent his path from what he calls ‘itinerant’ to a deliberate path to train business leaders to play more, practice improv, and find their ‘true voice.’

In this week’s episode, Kent and Jon speak with their first non-Millennial (turns out there’s a lot to learn!) -  we hear about Cort’s path, from what he labeled 'itinerant' to a deliberate mission to train business leaders to play more, practice improv, and find their 'authentic voice.' We also cover his view on what it means to be ‘authentic’, how you can listen to and act on a calling, and how you can always be learning, even from humbling failures.

Join us.

• Cort’s faculty page
• Improv Wisdom (killer book on how to incorporate improv into your life!)