How Jack Got Started.

In another life Jack ran comedy workshops for The National Theatre, Channel 4 and ITV amongst many others.  He reckons to have run over 1,200 comedy and stand up workshops and seen an assortment of over 15,000 comedians, wannabe comedians and even don’t wannabe comedians. In Malcolm Gladwell terms, he has done his 10,000 hours http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq2n1Jlx5P0.

While Jack was running these workshops, business people would occasionally ask if he could do a version of his stand up workshop for their company. They saw the business value of the stand up approach to presenting. At this point Jack realised he had a business.

What he did for businesses was making a huge difference.

What’s more, a lot of the feedback suggested it worked better than normal presentations skills training. The stand up approach was actually much closer to business presentations than the typical theatre background of most presentation trainers. Presentations, unlike theatre acting, are about talking to an audience, turning them into a group of friends, and telling them your story.

Since then Jack has run workshops for a huge range of businesses including: Citigroup, AIG, Pru Health, Lloyds, Pfizer, Innocent, Innovia and Starcom Mediavest.