You on Your Best Day, Act IV (Improv)

February 14th  7:30 – 11:30 a.m. KEY
February 15th  7:30 – 11:30 a.m. CEO
February 16th  7:30 – 11:30 a.m. CEO

Groups continue to explore the 35 Secret Weapons not covered in Allosso’s first three visits. The session begins with a review and includes an exercise. After the “review”, members have a choice of two options:

• Each member is asked to prepare a short speech or presentation designed to be given to their Board, employees, the Chamber of Commerce, a family event, etc. The member chooses the topic and who the audience is. Preferred length is three to five minutes. It can be light or serious, real or created, past or upcoming. Members will then give feedback to the speaker and Allosso not only gives feedback to the speaker, but also to the feedback givers. Depending upon whether it is a half-day or full-day workshop, only a couple of members may end up presenting.
• For those groups who want to do no “prepared” work, the program can also be structured with improvisational acting exercises designed to push members outside their comfort zone. Allosso will help connect the creative work with day to day leadership/communication challenges to heighten the relevance as well as the fun.

About Michael Allosso

Michael Allosso is a master communications expert who coaches CEOs and other high level executives both in dynamic presentations as well as effective day to day leadership. He has led award winning workshops for leaders and sales teams all over the world and is a much sought after personal coach. His client base ranges from insurance producers to construction managers, doctors to bankers, actors to politicians. His experience as a professional theater and film director enables him to quickly identify strengths and weaknesses. He gives his clients practical tools to fortify their strengths and eliminate their weaknesses.

Since he started in 2004, Michael has been a top rated speaker for Vistage International (the world’s largest CEO enrichment organization). During that time he won “The Lifetime Achievement” Award, the Vistage Top Performer Award for 2020, an unprecedented four “Speaker of the Year” Awards, two “Members’ Choice” Awards, the “Above and Beyond” Award, “Speaker of the Year” Award for TEC Canada, and the Millennium Award. Michael has traveled the world bringing his “You On Your Best Day” program to a wide variety of organizations and businesses.

Michael has been the Artistic Director and Manager of numerous theaters in the Boston area and has created and managed his own improvisational comedy troupe. He has been a faculty member at five colleges, taught in many other colleges and schools and has been chief administrator of the Boston University Theatre Institute and National Dance Institute/N.E. under Jacques D’Amboise.

Sample work includes a training video shot in Seattle helping Costco demonstrators heighten their presentation performance, “You Be the Judge” a short feature being used in the Boston school system to provoke teenage social responsibility and “Diversity Live” a corporate film used to instruct businesses on all levels of diversity sensitivity. Feature films include “The Strangler’s Wife” (produced by Roger Corman) and “Bluff” (starring Lenny Clarke). As a theatrical director, he has had numerous successes including the coveted Eliot Norton Award, Boston’s version of the Tony for his production of “Dealer’s Choice”. His range of directing credits stretches from opera companies to pop videos to living history to three Hasty Pudding shows at Harvard University to a musical at Lincoln Center.

As an actor, Allosso has appeared in many commercials and corporate films as well as the feature film “Pink Panther Two” with Steve Martin and on stage in “Marty” with John C. Reilly at the Huntington Theatre and as Felix in “The Odd Couple” opposite Sherman Hemsley of TV’s “The Jeffersons”. In the corporate world, Mr. Allosso writes and performs shows for special events. He earned his M.F.A. in Directing from Boston University and a B.A. in Theater Arts from Brandeis University.