Erin Diehl
Business Improv Facilitator, Energetic Keynote Speaker, Leading with Human Skills in the Age of AI
About
I'm a high‑energy Business Improv Edutainer, keynote speaker, and founder & CEO of improve it!, where I use improvisational comedy and experiential learning to help leaders and teams build empathy, adaptability, confidence, and connection in the workplace. I'm also a Top 1% global podcast host and Amazon bestselling author who blends humor, play, and practical insight to help audiences get “comfortable with the uncomfortable,” redefine failure, and lead with radical empathy.
Speaking Style
High‑energy, playful, and deeply interactive, blending improvisational comedy with practical leadership and personal development insights to keep audiences laughing and learning. I love using humor, storytelling, movement, and audience participation to break down barriers, foster connection, and help people become more comfortable with vulnerability, failure, empathy, and adaptive leadership.
Past Speaking Events
My keynote taught leaders what’s called “positive relational energy” and how it directly impacts engagement, retention, and wellbeing in their teams. Through interactive exercises, improv, and experiential learning, participants cultivated empathy, self-love, and inner peace to help them lead with authenticity and contagious positivity.
The Empathetic Leader: Leading Yourself and Others
Opened annual conference with a session teaching attendees how to reframe defeat as a learning experience, rely on each other and use relationships to advance in their careers. Taught tools to establish more synergy between doctors and nurses.
Taught attendees how to use improv-based techniques to foster self-compassion and self-care as a leader. Once pouring into their own cups, leaders can show up and better support and lead their people.
Speaking Packages
Human Leadership in the Age of AI Keynote
Consultative call to dive deeper into customization of the keynote (group dynamic, objectives, and internal language to incorporate). Throughout the session, leaders explore how their thoughts act as inputs, their words become prompts, and their actions create outputs that shape culture. AI does not create culture. It scales what already exists. When clarity, fear, empathy, or ego are present in leadership, acceleration simply makes those qualities louder, which is why unexamined leadership becomes one of the greatest risks in the age of AI. Be prepared to use movement to START a movement of positivity and self-awareness that will awaken your mind, body, and leadership presence. This is an extremely interactive one-hour keynote session that infuses play, improv, and experiential learning to help leaders reconnect with themselves and with others. Post-keynote resource to boost skills after the program.
60 minutes
$10,000 - $15,000
F Words at Work Keynote
Consultative call to dive deeper into customization of the keynote (group dynamic, objectives, and internal language to incorporate). In this extremely interactive session, attendees will be on their feet as they practice viewing failure as “gifts” and gain an understanding that failing frequently leads to the fundamentals of success. Audience participation is required as I use storytelling and improv-based activities. Wear comfortable shoes, and get prepared to get comfortable with the uncomfortable. Post-keynote resource to boost skills after the program.
60 minutes
$10,000 - $15,000