✦ Always be curious · Have fun · Be extraordinary ✦
Improv for Leaders
Yes, and… it's really not that serious.
An improv course for founders, executives, and teams who want to lead with sharper listening, faster decisions, and the playful resilience that lets you keep showing up — even when the scene breaks.
A 3-act improv practice
Built on three of the oldest improv principles — taught for the stages you actually stand on.
Act I — Yes, And
The foundational improv move. How to accept reality (Yes) and add to it (And) instead of blocking, deflecting, or negotiating. Practice drills you can use in your next meeting, board call, or hard conversation.
Act II — Make Your Partner Look Good
The ensemble principle that quietly rewires leadership. Status games, generous listening, gift-giving, and how the best teams 'die for the bit' for each other. Improv as a daily collaboration practice.
Act III — Fail Joyfully
The on-stage skill of taking the hit, bowing, and going again. How to keep moving when the scene breaks — funded round falls through, hire quits, launch flops — without losing the room or yourself.
Games you'll actually use
Classic improv drills adapted for the room you walk into Monday morning.
Yes, And
Replace 'No, but' in every conversation for a week.
One Word Story
Co-create a narrative one word at a time. Trains listening + release of control.
Status Swap
Run the same meeting at high status, then low. Watch the room change.
Bow & Begin Again
When a scene breaks: stop, smile, bow, restart. A ritual for founders.
Gift-Giving
Hand your scene partner a setup that makes them look brilliant.
The Mistake Is the Show
Treat every screwup as the next scene's offer.
What's inside
- Lifetime access to Serious NOT Serious — a course on improv for leaders, founders, and teams
- 21 short lessons across 3 acts: Yes And · Ensemble · Failing Joyfully
- Classic improv games adapted for boardrooms, 1:1s, sales calls, and keynote stages
- Warm-ups you can run solo in 60 seconds or with your team in 5 minutes
- Written and taught with the lens of It's Really Not That Serious — paradox + play as discipline
- Invitation to the Extraordinary Network and a direct path into Coaching + the Mastermind
The Extraordinary Network
One ladder. Three steps.
Start with a $99 course. Level up to Extraordinary Coaching. Apply for the Extraordinary Mastermind. Founded by Aaron Bare — 1,000+ extraordinary leaders inside.
Step on stage. Say yes. Begin.
One payment. Lifetime access. Improv as a daily leadership discipline — not a party trick.