Andrew Burnham

Posted by: Andrew Burnham on 12/11/08 10:16 PM

Founder/Principal Improv at work and beinginthemoment.com

Andrew completed his business studies at the University of Toronto in 1996 and went to work for a corporation. Although corporate life wasn’t a match for Andrew, it was useful in his later development of team learning programs.



Andrew completed is Second City Conservatory training and toured with several of his own improvisational theatre troupes until 1998 where he decided to work again and founded Improv at work.



Early successes included ongoing work in Romania where Andrew developed a program called Improvisational Thinking, speaking engagements in the USA and special event and team training for various companies in Canada.



To this day, Andrew creates and delivers out of the box experiential workshops, team events and creative content employing re-emerging learning and change methods that engage groups of people to ‘click’ to new growth, learning, thinking, attitudes and behaviors, in themselves and with each other.



Andrew has worked with executives to front line staff in the private and public sectors in organizations across industries.



Andrew is lately being contracted to make training and learning more lively and engaging and has been asked to create a virtual team based simulation game. On the lighter side, Andrew also produces videos for training and marketing purposes, a natural fit with his improv theatre background.



Whether you are contracting Andrew to deliver your training or having him add value to it, what you are getting with Andrew is a learning professional with an engaging sense of humour and lots of experience. Andrew can quickly create an atmosphere of trust, works easily with people and has a recent IQ measurement of 142. Andrew’s EQ hasn’t been measured yet.

How Andrew can Help You

Clients I’ve served in Canada, the US and emerging economies in Eastern Europe have many needs such as becoming better collaborators and creative problem solvers, meeting their team development goals and improving their flexibility of response. Improv at work’s recent clients include the Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration – Government of Ontario, Kimberly Clark, USC Education Savings Plans, Global Payments Canada.



Improv at Work has expanded, by client request, to include Being in the Moment, a Power Hour training or Experiential Key-note that provides leaders and teams a simple, easy and highly productive way to handle that sense we’ve all experienced of getting one’s “buttons pushed” at work. Through this workshop, it is possible to become more responsive and less reactive, and focus attention on constructive action and not inadvertently turn situations or people into “a problem”. I am excited to be releasing my new work Being in the Moment to organizations now. These include, Baker & McKenzie, Transport Canada, the WSIB and others.

For an example of recent work and projects go to Sample Projects