The Radical Agreement Project (RA) is a recognized leader in corporate team building and soft skill development.
PROMO VIDEO
Get a sense for the fun and feel of an improv based workshop by watching our corporate training promo video!
Our Services In Chicago
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 Chicago.
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
A fast-paced fintech powerhouse in Chicago brought together about 65 of their top performers. They described them as brilliant, buttoned-up, and trapped in the rut of “email threads until midnight” and “Zoom freeze effect.” (Covid was just winding down.)
RA analyzes the client needs and presents a proposed improv solution: four improv instructors will lead four concurrent improv workshops dubbed "Creative Fireworks," a brand new tailor made workshop designed to address this specific groups' goals. The mission? Smash down the communication walls, spark agile teamwork, and unearth bold collaboration.
The workshop starts with fast paced trust drills (“mirror me… but louder!”), rolls into spontaneous storytelling (“Yes, Anding a story told piecemeal with no prep”), and culminates with full-group scene work that almost feels like a comedy show. All the while, the instructors are working to dissolve walls between coworkers and to coax full participation out of everyone. When heretofore quieter teammates leap forward, that's a success, but no more than when the loudest team members pause to listen. The more even the participation, the greater the trust, the faster and more effective the decision-making becomes.
What strong teams want is everyone firing on all cylinders. No one team member should have to put on a cap and be a hero. Instead the team is the hero.
That was the takeaway participants held onto after the workshops concluded and the company was so happy with the results it has become an annual event.
Recommended Chicago Venues
HILTON CHICAGO
720 S. Michigan Avenue,
Chicago, IL 60605
(312) 922-4400
This hotel is the legendary behemoth of corporate meeting-spaces lore. Over 234,000 sq ft of event space, grand ballrooms that could host a small army of brainstormers, and ceilings that whisper “dream big.”
Picture this: your team gathers in a ballroom so vast you could fly a drone across it. AV tech that could beam a rocket to Mars (almost). Event planners who wear capes (in your mind) and whisper “Let’s turn this meeting into magic.” And outside, Chicago’s sprawling skyline watches like a silent encouragement.
This is the corporate epic-level event setting. Choose it if you want your workshop to feel like a blockbuster.
LOEWS CHICAGO
455 N. Park Drive,
Chicago, IL 60611
(312) 840-6600
Imagine: a sleek skyscraper with creative DNA. Your team files in, and the space feels like a futuristic boardroom + lounge hybrid. Two ballrooms big enough for company-wide rallies, breakout rooms primed for more intimate and intensive learning workshops, and a terrace with fresh-air that invites fresh thinking. It’s corporate retreat meets boutique hotel meets high-octane creation station.
Pick this if you want high style, dramatic views, and serious brain-juice.
SWISSOTEL CHICAGO
323 E. Wacker Drive,
Chicago, IL 60601
(312) 565-0565
This piece d'resistance of corporate gatherings brings Swiss precision + Chicago swagger. Think glass riverfront views, modern chic meeting zones, and enough flexibility to morph from “quiet strategy session” into “all-hands on deck” in minutes. The vibe says: “we mean business—but we also mean fun, supportive connection.”
Go here if you want a setting that balances sleek professionalism with creative freedom.
A Sample Improv Exercise!
“Surprise Fact”
A wild ride of spontaneous thinking, quick wit, and friendly chaos.
Setup
Hand out index cards and ask each person to title each card with their name and to list one surprising (business appropriate) fact about themselves underneath.
Gather your group in a circle.
Explain: “You’re about to play Surprise Fact—you’ll be handed a random fact about your teammate (collect these on index cards beforehand), and you must on the spot turn that fact into the central element of a two-sentence introduction you might use for them at a business function... within 5 seconds.”
Example: “Fact: Jane once juggled three pineapples.” Introduction: “I wanted you to meet Jane, our company's ringmaster. In her spare time she juggles fruit, but not as well as she juggles time sensitive business imperatives!”
Jane then steps into the circle along wioth whoever is directly across from her in the circle. They carry opn a conversation for one minute entirely related to the introduction.
The next person in the circle is given a card. And so on.
Speed matters. Unexpected facts only. No prep. The crowd shouts “GO!” each turn.
If someone hesitates more than 5 seconds, the team gives them a friendly buzzer (a verbal “Bzzzzzz”) and the fact card ius passed to the next person, onluy now it is about the person who hesitated and they must carry out the conversation ffiollowing the introduction.
Why it works
Thinking on your feet: you don’t know the fact until it’s your turn, you must react now.
Team awareness: you’re learning quirky facts about coworkers.
Creativity + risk: your few seconds force you to choose a scene quickly.
Connection: you’ll laugh, you’ll have weird conversations, you’ll bond.
Use this as a mid-workshop agility exercise. It gets brains warmed, bodies loose, and humor flowing.