Offerings and Events

Westfall Partners can easily craft an event specifically addressing your organization’s needs and challenges, no matter what its size is or what industry you’re in. From startups to mid-size companies to Fortune 500 organizations with global profiles, to governmental organizations, non-profits, and NGOs, we’ve crafted successful events – from a simple two-hour team-building event to full-day or even week-long engagements – that dive deep into your organization’s culture to help it realize its potential.

That said, here are a few examples of the kinds of events we’ve provided to give you a better idea of how we can shape your event to meet your organizations specific needs.

Making It Up As We Go Along: How Improv Comedy Can Help Creative Agencies Travel at the Speed of Ideas

Creativity on-demand: it’s what clients of creative agencies expect of their agency and what our bosses expect of us. But given the everyday demands and deadline-pressures of our industry, how can we be creative quickly? And how can we ensure the best ideas actually end up in front of our clients?

Enter improvisational comedy. Improv comedians are experts in being creative very quickly: collaborating without ego or judgment, accepting each others ideas unhesitatingly without question, they forge — in the moment — contexts, premises, and entire worlds, shaping them into comedic hilarity, energy, and brilliance — all in front of a live audiences. What’s more, these skills, easily learned, can be directly applied to any number of creative challenges, from brainstorming to strategy to collaborating and focusing energy on the ideas your clients will love.

In this event, you’ll discover how the principles of improv comedy are not only fun and rather easily learned, but can result in better team cohesion, communication and camraderie — and more creative ideas.

Mergers and Acquisitions: Uniting Teams from Different Corporate Cultures

Sometimes, even though the merger is complete, it isn’t really complete. Trying to unite two distinct corporate cultures, each with their own unique legacies, can lead to internal and external challenges and attitudes, such as:

  • Negative criticism

  • Diverging agendas

  • Lack of teamwork or collegiality

  • “Some Ideas Are More Important Than Others”

  • “No one listens to me…”

Improv provides solutions to these challenges by:

  • Promoting teamwork, collaboration and leadership

  • Promoting a greater sense of trust among colleagues

  • Building and flexing creative muscles…

This event will help the group learn to navigate these new cultural shifts by collaborating in the moment though improv exercises and games that demonstrate how the principles of improv can get teams not just laughing together, but working together.

“Left-Brainers are (Funny) People, Too!” Improv for Scientists, Analysts, and Data-Wonks of All Stripes

Some teams are, well, more linear than others. Their talents? Analyzing, research, forecasting from data. They’re more grounded in facts, more process- oriented, geared toward abstractions and abstract thinking. Every organization needs the talents of people who see the world this way. But they face challenges: being “in the moment,” engaging with their teams, speaking off the cuff in public situations or being confident in front of audiences, or even simple “analysis/paralysis.” No matter what challenge your “left-brained” team is facing, this event will help by

  • Encouraging “in the moment” and “transparent” behavior in front of audiences

  • Providing improved individual communication and presentation skills

  • Inspiring collaboration and spontaneity among teams

The result? A left-brained team that has right-brained skillsets – which means they’ll be unstoppable.

Let’s Talk…

Didn’t see your unique challenge covered by the kinds of events listed above?

Then let’s talk about what we could potentially create together.

At Westfall Partners, we’re always ready to listen, collaborate, create, and improvise.

Westfall Partners Can Also….

Speak At Your Event:

Westfall Partners Principal Shawn Westfall is also available to speak about the intersection and interpenetration of applied improvisation and organizational culture, business, training and development, and leadership. As both a keynote speaker and a facilitator of breakout functions, he’s lectured and provided engaging insight to organizations of all sizes, including the annual global conference of the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM), and most recently at Nestle’s North American headquarters in Arlington, Virginia.

Partner Pro Bono:

Westfall Partners has facilitated pro bono improv workshops for sexual assault survivors, partnering with organizations like Living Out Loud and SOAR (Speaking Out Against Rape). We’ve discussed and presented the strategies of applied improvisation to the national conference of SART (Sexual Assault Response Teams), first responders in cases of sexual violence or assault. If your government organization, NGO, or non-profit provides services for survivors of sexual assault, reach out to see if there’s a way to continue using applied improvisation to serve this community.