Corporate training
Perceive accurately, project clearly.
Most professional interactions are improvised. Meetings, negotiations, presentations, difficult conversations – people respond in real time, with limited information, inside defined roles.
Yet very few organisations train how people behave in the moment.
This work trains how people perceive and respond – not how they categorise or perform.
Why improvisation – in a professional context?
Improvisation is not about being funny or performing. It is the practical study of how people create meaning together, under pressure, without a script.
What the business world calls soft skills are, in improvisation, structural skills – the things that keep an interaction coherent. Sharper listening, situational awareness, the capacity to respond rather than defend when things don’t go as planned: not personality traits to be encouraged, but trainable mechanics.
Individual presence before team performance
Most corporate workshops focus on team dynamics. This work starts one step earlier.
Teams function better when individuals are available in the moment, notice what is actually happening rather than what they expect, respond rather than react, and contribute without over-controlling the outcome. None of that is team training – it is individual capacity, which the team then inherits.
Participants are not asked to “be themselves” in any personal sense. They are trained to inhabit their professional role – with more precision and range, not more self-expression.
What we train
Depending on the format, sessions focus on:
- active listening and situational awareness
- acceptance and adaptive response
- clarity of intention
- committing to a direction under uncertainty
- risk-taking within safe, defined structures
- connection with an audience — clients, colleagues, stakeholders
The exercises are physical, concrete, and immediately applicable. No role-play scenarios. No abstract discussion.
Format
Standard – two hours. A concentrated, hands-on intervention designed to break habitual interaction patterns. Sessions move from warm-up and group exercises to pair work to short structured scenes. Everyone works at once; the emphasis is on doing, observing, adjusting.
Extended – three to four hours. Adds presentation skills and audience connection, with room for more individual feedback. For organisations that want the work to reach how people perform in front of others, not only how they interact.
What this is – and what it isn’t
This is practical and demanding, built on a rigorous improvisation method.
It is not therapy, not personality work, not long-term training, not a substitute for artistic education.
It’s clear, contained, and meant to land in the room – immediately.
About Caspar Schjelbred
Caspar Schjelbred works internationally as a teacher of improvisation and physical acting. He is the founder of Impro Supreme, the framework through which he develops the serious study of improvisation, body and imagination.
His corporate work draws on the same foundations, applied where the stakes are professional rather than artistic.
Practical information
- Available in English or French
- On-site or off-site
- Group size adaptable
- Pricing and format discussed on request