Everything s an Offer' tells the story of one business person's adventure in the world of improvisational theatre. It explains how the practises improv is based on can help you make more with what you have, using less effort, less energy and less resources (whilst creating less difficulty and stress). It illustrates, with myriad examples and stories, how anybody leading a busy and complicated life can put these ideas into action and why doing so will help them lead a more satisfying, creative and sustainable life. It extends the applications of improv far beyond team building and offers a new language for thinking about how we go about business - a language that has been used by Fortune 500 companies such as Nike, Intel and FedEx to help them communicate better, build stronger relationships (internally or with customers), propel people into action and get to new ideas and solutions.
About the Author - Robert Poynton
For Robert Poynton 'career' has always been more of a verb than a noun. He stumbled through a number of London advertising agencies (including Saatchi & Saatchi, BBH, and JWT) before helping to found (and name) a marketing and brand consultancy called Red Spider. This kept him busy until 1997 when he never quite made it back from paternity leave. Then, following a rash t-shirt purchase Rob found a way to make work into play, by co-founding the international improv and business consultancy On Your Feet (the story of whose creation is told in this book).
Rob has worked with all kinds of people from accountants to zen monks and for client companies such as Orange, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Philips, and The BBC and as far afield as Singapore and Cape Town. For over five years he has been teaching at Oxford Unversity s Said Business School. At the most recent count he had worked with people of some sixty three different nationalities.
Rob lives in a solar powered house in the Sierra de Gredos in central Spain with his wife, three sons and Real Madrid football season ticket.
Gary Hirsch - Illustrator
Gary is the other co-founder of On Your Feet. He is also an accomplished improviser, wannabe marine biologist, and voracious /artist/illustrator/doodler. Gary has been teaching and performing professional improv for seventeen years, and is the founder of Super Project Lab: a long-form improv group based in Portland Oregon. His public art commissions can be seen in Portland, Dallas, and Melbourne Australia. He is the founder of Doodle House which features his illustrations and wearable art.
Gary's improv clients include GE, Nike, The North Face, Disney, P&G and others. He teaches at Wieden + Kennedy Advertising's experimental advertising grad school 12. He has just completed illustrating his first children's book called Dare. Gary lives in Portland, Oregon, with his wife, two children, and two hyper King Charles Cavaliers.
