The Radical Agreement Project (RA) is a recognized leader in corporate team building and soft skill development.
PROMO VIDEO
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Our Services In New York City
Improv can be used to advance the development of any soft skill, common workshop focuses include:
Team Building / Communication / Creativity / Presentation Skills / Sales / Storytelling / Agility (In The Face Of The Unexpected) / Working with Difficult People / Collaboration / Listening / Staying In The Moment & Much More
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IN PERSON WORKSHOPS
Our 90-120 minute interactive workshops are perfect for teams of 6-20. For larger groups, multiple instructors can be provided to run concurrent workshops.
Engagements can include pre & post workshop exercises and materials. All workshops include extensive consultation with the workshop instructor.
Available anywhere in the continental US and Canada.
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INTERACTIVE LECTURES
Looking for a learning event that can address groups as large as 100 to 300 professionals? Our 60-90 minute interactive improv lectures engage large groups while sharing valuable workplace strategies.
Available anywhere in the continental US and Canada.
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LIVE COMEDY
ENTERTAINMENT
Looking to make the next quarterly meeting just a bit more bearable?
Whether you are in the market for an emcee, a stand up, sketch comedy or a live improv comedy show, we can get you the absolute best up and coming comedians for your event!
Available anywhere in the continental US and Canada.
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VIRTUAL WORKSHOPS
Our 60 minute online workshops work well for smaller groups of 6-12 participants and can be run on any video conferencing software.
Virtual workshops can include pre-workshop exercises, post workshop materials, and consultation with the workshop instructor.
Available anywhere a good internet connection is accessible.
Led by the best improv instructors
Improv is fun.
We take it seriously.
Thanks to RA's extensive contacts within the improv industry, only the best improv instructors will help facilitate your event in New York City.
Rebecca Turcotte,
HR Director
"The Radical Agreement Project provides activities that allow a group to learn collaboration skills, by supporting their team members in a positive and uplifting way. It is also, therefore, a useful way of building team communication and cohesion, by helping people communicate in an open, honest and constructive way."
Dennis DiMaggio,
Chief Learning Officer
"Terry brings great insights to applying Improv principles to leadership, communication, and teamwork challenges."
Eran Arbel,
Asst Director Talent Management & Development
"Terry is absolutely fantastic! He gets people to participate, has great feedback, and fun exercises to move things along."
Michelle Fischer,
Director of Strategic Communications & HR
"Terry is great! He takes a very creative approach to solving common work place challenges. He has the ability to engage and bring a team together in a positive fashion with the objective of helping them to realize their full potential. He is fun to work with!"
Improv@Work
New York City is where I got my start negotiating, arranging and leading improv classes for the office. At one point I was overseeing over 120 improv for business classes for businesses a year all within NYC, so I have a good number of stories.
I remember one particular event very vividly. It was for the NBC page program. Pages are the people who assist in shows at NBC Studios in New York City, famously the character Kenneth Parcells on 30 Rock (played by UCB alum Jack McBrayer) was an NBC Page.
In any case, it turns out there are quite a few people in the NBC page program at any given moment. Most of them are younger professionals just out of college looking to break into show business. The executive in charge of the program decided it would be fun to treat all of their current NBC pages to an improv team building class. They wanted 6 concurrent sessions to run 120 pages (and other associated NBC colleagues) through and they wanted this to happen in NYC on a slightly smaller budget than I was used to.
That's a tall order in New York City where space is a premium.
Fortunately we found a studio that had 6 different breakout rooms. One of them was a space Beyonce had recently filmed a video in. It was this giant all white soundstage. It may have been Single Ladies she shot there, but I can’t say I remember for certain.
They were willing to offer a discounted rate because the workshop was happening in December near the holidays when they were largely dormant. Even though the space was gigantic we still had to use elevators to get everyone into their breakout rooms after an initial welcome in the large all white soundstage.
That can be tricky, and I remember I was glad to have carefully orchestrated who would go where and how they would be led there before the event. Although I love improvisation, if you try to improvise your way through something like room assignments you can really end up in a mess.
Same thing after the breakout sessions were over. Everyone reconvened in the large white room for a final improv for business exercise that was engaged in en masse. It is important to start breakout sessions together and also end them together, it creates a much deeper sense of a communal experience.
I still rent that space out routinely to this day for larger NYC events and I always make sure that the plan for the day of is carefully orchestrated.
We serve the greater NYC area, including Midtown, Financial District, Tribeca, SoHo, Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Hudson Yards, Flatiron, Union Square, Upper East Side, Upper West Side, Battery Park City, Lower East Side, Chinatown, East Village, West Village, Dumbo, Downtown Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Long Island City, Astoria, Roosevelt Island, Kips Bay, Murray Hill, Sutton Place, Gramercy..
Recommended NYC Venues
New York Hilton Midtown
1335 6th Ave,
New York, NY 10019
(212) 586-7000
Total event space at the Hilton Midtown is some of the biggest in all of NYC and its history of hosting large name entertainment and business celebrities is inimitable. A great choice for events looking to hold improv team building classes concurrently in breakout rooms, partially because of the space and partially because it's connection to past celebrities and central location in New York City can be used to inspire improv class participants.
The Westin New York at Times Square
270 W 43rd St,
New York, NY 10036
(212) 201-2700
Just around the corner from some of the best theaters in the entire world, the reasons to schedule your improv for business classes at The Westin are obvious. Their flexible meeting spaces work for improv classes and their focus on wellness may impact the overall ebergy of your event positively.
Grand Hyatt New York
109 E 42nd St,
New York, NY 10017
(212) 883-1234
The Grands Hyatt boasts a classic New York City decor that will permeate your event. Modern amenities, tech solutions and flexible meeting space make improv corporate training sessions a cinch to arrange. Located just next to Grand Central makes travel arrangement a bit simpler.
Other New York City Improv Spots!
New York City is an entertainment and comedy trendsetter and, as a result, boasts some of the most impressive improv theaters in the world.
Without a doubt the largest improv influence in NYC the past feww decades now under new management after Covid. Check out one of their many shows or consider learning improv yourself by taking improv classes designed in their famous approach to improv.
A long time hub for cutting edge comedy, offer nightly performances and improv classes.
A community oriented improv theater with an improv class for you, a show for all your friends or an improv team building workshop for your company!