Innovative People

John Sweeney

As the owner and director of America’s oldest comedy theater, John has honed his powers of improvisation to ignite cultures of innovative behavior within America’s biggest businesses including Microsoft, PWC, General Mills & United Health Care – resulting in more than 2500 events to date. He is the author of several books, including The Innovative Mindset, coming from Wiley on Oct. 26, 2015.

Featured across countless media platforms including Forbes, Inc. and The Financial Times, he uses his scientific understanding of how human behavior is influenced, to implement simple but groundbreaking tools such as “Yes and…” and “The Big 5″ so you too can be at peak innovation fitness.

But the driving force behind Sweeney’s success are the results he helps clients achieve by effectively bridging improvisational theater skills and behaviors to the workplace through his speeches and training. His improvisational insights have resonated with a broad spectrum of forward-thinking business leaders from some of the most innovative and largest companies in the world – ensuring every level of the organization is operating within the mindset of discovery.