Bob Kulhan

CEO, Business Improvisations and Adjunct Professor, Fuqua School of Business

Bob Kulhan is an elite improviser, an adjunct professor at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, author of Getting to “Yes And", and the founder and CEO of Business Improv®—a 21-year-old consultancy linking improvisation to business through behavioral sciences and ROI for blue-chip companies. Business Improv is a world-class leader in experiential Virtual Instructor-Led Training (VILT) Digital Asynchronous Learning and Open Enrollment programs.

Kulhan's teaching and performing credits include Chicago's famed Second City (master artist in residence), Improv Olympic (resident company/faculty), Columbia College, London TheaterSports, The Banff Centre, The Australian Graduate School of Management, UCLA Anderson School of Management, Columbia University Business School, and Duke University's The Fuqua School of Business.

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Why “Yes, and…” Might Be the Most Valuable Phrase in Business.

The Intangible: Earn Trust. Be Relatable. Be Influential. Be Creative. Level Status. Resolve Conflict. Leverage Talent. Build Strong Teams. The Tangible: “Yes, And…”Outside of an awfully good oxymoron, and with […]

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Improv Teaches You to Say “Yes” to Life

The soft skills associated with improv are actually the hard skills because there’s not an equation to be a great leader. There’s not an equation that tells you how to […]

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Bob Kulhan: Improv 101. How to Use “Yes, and.”

The cornerstone of improvisation around the world is a great two-word phrase called “yes, and.” “Yes” means that you accept everything that’s brought to you, regardless of who brought it […]

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