Chris Sams delights in using improvisational theater technique as a trainer-facilitator to teach spontaneity, adaptability, creativity, leadership, presence, communication, listening, storytelling, collaboration, teamwork, and team building. Chris has led workplace improv workshops and departmental events for more than seventy companies and corporate teams, including Adaptive Path, Deloitte, Accenture, McKinsey & Co., ZS Associates, Stanford University Graduate School of Business, UC-Berkeley Center for Executive Education, Gap, Old Navy, Genentech, SAP, Facebook, Google, Salesforce, and Virgin America.  Chris served for eight years as Director of BATS Improv's On-The-Go corporate engagement programs.  Additionally, Chris has been coaching improvisation for adults at all levels, from foundational elements of improv principles and basics to advanced performance classes for actors in the Bay Area and beyond.  He has been active with the Applied Improvisation Network since 2002, serving on the world conference steering committee in 2012.  Chris is a Benjamin N. Duke Leadership Scholar graduate of Duke University.

Ben Johnson has worked as a professional performer and teacher since 1997. His credits as an actor, improviser, and clown include work for the American Conservatory Theater, Cirque du Soleil, and BATS Improv. Ben holds a Master’s degree in teaching from Brown University and has over ten years of experience as a teaching artist and trainer of business professionals.

Lisa Rowland has been improvising, teaching and training in the Bay Area and beyond for more than 15 years.  After graduating from Stanford University, she joined the mainstage company of BATS Improv, Northern California's most renowned improv performing and training center, and has been teaching and performing improvisation across the United States and internationally ever since.  You can find Lisa teaching improv as part of the BATS School of Improv, as well as at schools around the Bay Area.  She recently returned to her alma mater and is teaching improvisation at Stanford University.
         Lisa has developed and delivered improv-based trainings around creativity, presence, collaboration, teamwork and communication to companies and teams in professional settings around the country, including including jetBlue, Google, Genentech, Virgin America, Oracle and Accenture.
          Lisa has played with headlining troupes for several national improv festivals and was a guest instructor at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia in 2011, 2013 and 2014.  Lisa was voted Best Actor in the San Francisco Bay Guardian readers' poll in 2012.