POAL develops leadership, builds teams, enhances communication, creates strong client relationships, improves diversity practices, and more.

How?

With some of the most exciting and innovative discoveries in learning and development — the tools and framework of theater and improvisation. We create and deliver customized experiential education programs, in which we put people and organizations on stage both literally and figuratively.

Since 1999, we've trained more than 40,000 employees at dozens of companies, as well as governmental and non-profit organizations on four continents.

There are methods to our madness...

Clients at PricewaterhouseCoopers, JPMorgan Chase, Lenox Hill Hospital, Duke Corporate Education, Standard & Poor's, and others speak about their Performance of a Lifetime experiences.

If a picture's worth a thousand words, how about a video?

Whether you're standing in front of a packed auditorium or sitting across a boardroom table, the best business communicators will tell you -- you need to perform. And to deliver a peak performance -- powerful, spontaneous, and authentic -- you need the improvisational performance tools of the professionals. And that's where Performance of a Lifetime comes in. Join us for a rare open enrollment course, Communicating with Impact: The Performance of Presentation and Conversation in Business.

A large global accounting firm promotes 250 people to manager every year, and for each of them, the transition is a big one. They now have to successfully navigate a myriad of relationships, both with clients and throughout the firm. Wherever they go, whatever they do — however skilled they become — these new managers will need to have difficult conversations, and more of them now than at any other time in their careers. Handling them well will be critical to their success in their new role.

Our challenge to the new managers was this: "Perform every difficult conversation as an improvisational scene, in which you are both a performer and the director."

Find out what happened...