Between Stimulus & Response: Inner Leader CEO with Dan Dumsha

This week on The Inner Leader Podcast, it's the first in our CEO series, where I talk to business owners and CEOs about how they use intuition at work. And it doesn't get any more intuition friendly than the Improv space. 

My dear friend Dan Dumsha, President & Founder of Improv for Work and Wellness, joins me in this episode to talk about how improv serves us at work, and how intuition has served him in his. We'll learn:

• The “magic” of being in the moment in our work (07:00)
• How the corporate world has received improv - and how Dan builds trust with his co-creators (07:50)
• Building a safe space & its evolution into a brave space (11:00)
• Co creation vs control (13:15)
• Making meetings more efficient and cost effective (13:35)
• Taking a “beat” before answering (15:45)
• What we can learn about someone from the questions they ask (16:00)
• Using intuition the second time (17:35)
• Why mistakes are so important to make (18:40)
• How intuition has played a role in Dan’s business decisions (21:00)
• The relationship between discomfort and change (21:20)
• Patterns & Feelings: How Dan experiences intuition (24:00)
• How to plan for a change before you’re able to make that change (26:40)
• Fighting for our limitations vs welcoming change (27:40)
• An improv-inspired tool everyone can use right now to create greater connection in their everyday conversations (28:30)
• The benefits of checking the ego (33:00)