Keynotes with Erin Diehl

Erin Diehl, improve it!’s founder, offers three distinct keynote options that use improvisational comedy to edutain her audiences!


Step into the electrifying world of Erin Diehl, where your conference meets comedy gold, and self-love takes center stage! As a dynamic business improv keynote speaker, Erin turns traditional conferences and events into laugh-out-loud experiences, injecting fresh energy and creativity into every interaction.

As a signature embracing failure keynote speaker, she fearlessly dives into the comedic chaos of embracing failure and transforming setbacks into stepping stones for success.

But that's not all! Not only is Erin an improv comedy keynote speaker, she is also a self love motivational speaker, inspiring audiences to lead with authenticity and compassion, one hilarious revelation at a time. So, if you're ready to revolutionize your event with a dose of humor, heart, and a whole lot of failing forward, Erin Diehl is your ultimate choice for an unforgettable keynote experience!

Erin Diehl Failing Forward Keynote Speaker

“F”words at work

Redefine Failure, and #Failfluence Your Way to Success
60-minute Interactive Keynote Session

KEYNOTE 1: “F” WORDS AT WORK
Redefine Failure, and #Failfluence Your Way to Success

The Global Pandemic created a feeling of extreme failure for many people. This demonstration of defeat led to The Great Resignation and stifled innovation and less-than-ideal foundations of company culture. 

Is there a secret sauce to redefining failure in the workplace? Yes. The answer is celebrating our failures (FAIL, YEAH!) 

Erin Diehl, failing forward keynote speaker, has facilitated this keynote for companies globally and all over the US. She is your “keepin it real failfluencer bestie” who teaches you that failure is not an option - it is a MUST. 

In this extremely interactive session, attendees will be on their feet as they practice viewing failure as “gifts” and gain an understanding that failing frequently leads to the fundamentals of success. Audience participation is required as Erin edutains through storytelling and improv-based activities. Wear comfortable shoes (shout out to the #slippersquad), and get prepared to get comfortable with the uncomfortable. 

If you want to innovate, ideate, and up-level your professional presence and company culture - getting comfy with failure is the only way. 

Participant Learning Objectives: 

  • Understand that the fear of failure is very common, and learn tools to change the narrative

  • Learn ways to see your failures as “gifts’ versus mistakes 

  • Hold yourself accountable to failing frequently

  • Become a #failfluencer to those around you

  • How to failfluence using the m.o.v.e.o.n. method

  • Overcome perfectionism and embrace failing your way to success!


KEYNOTE 2: Radical Empathy
How to Create a Culture of Selfless Leadership

In this day and age, we love to throw the word “empathy” around like a toddler throwing spaghetti at a wall, –but have you ever actually felt it? Has anyone ever listened to you so intently that it felt as though they were right beside you in your situation, holding your hand…and maybe even wearing your shoes? They helped carry the load, and this made you feel lighter and more capable than ever before.

Thought leader and research-based qualitative psychologist Brené Brown says, “Empathy is connection. It’s a ladder out of a shame hole.” If we want to show up as selfless leaders, we must first understand empathy in this light and then put action behind it. It’s time to start propping up those ladders and climbing them, together.

Climbing these ladders doesn’t happen overnight. Rather, it happens on an experiential journey that will teach you how to harness your own highest energy on a consistent basis, allow it to flow into the rest of your team, and utilize their own empathetic powers to keep it going.

Erin Diehl–your experiential journey conductor–uses her research, unmatched enthusiasm, and eighteen years of experience in improvisational training to help you make this all a reality.

Be prepared to use movement to START a movement of positivity and self-awareness that will awaken your mind, body, and soul. Re: this is an extremely interactive keynote that infuses play, improv, and experiential learning.

If your organization wants to create a magnetic culture of selfless, empathetic leaders, then this is the session for you! 

Participant Learning Objectives: 

  • Understand your current level of energy and how to harness positive energy on a daily basis 

  • Transition from burnout to consistent, sustainable energy

  • Realize how your energy affects your empathy, and how your empathy affects your team

  • Discover your own visionary power and how to harness it

  • Create and implement your own internal O.F.F.ER. letter

  • Turn 1:1 conversations into empathetic coaching opportunities

  • Walk away with a stronger understanding of selfless leadership and a road map to guide you forward 

KEYNOTE 2: Radical Empathy

Radical Empathy

How to Create a Culture of Selfless Leadership
60-minute Interactive Keynote Session


KEYNOTE 3: Self Love and Leadership

self love & leadership

Why Your Self Worth = Your Net Worth
60-minute Interactive Keynote Session

KEYNOTE 3: Self Love and Leadership
Why Your Self Worth = Your Net Worth

People don’t leave jobs, they leave leaders. This is a harsh truth, but once you accept that as a leader you are the single most important factor in your organization's performance, you also see that you are the solution. 

The magical pill that keeps employees engaged, retained, and attracts top talent? It’s you.

Otherwise known as “positive relational energy,” several studies show that people with positive energy produce substantially higher levels of engagement, lower turnover, and enhanced well-being among employees. A leader’s energy, good or bad, creates a domino effect in every organization. 

In response to this phenomenon we often kick to the curb, Erin Diehl uses her research, unmatched enthusiasm, and extensive experience in improvisational training to help you discover a newfound sense of self-love and inner peace. You’ll combine these two powerhouses to create your very own positive relational energy that will make your people stay (and slay).

Be prepared to use movement to START a movement of positivity and self awareness that will awaken your mind, body, and soul. Re: this is an extremely interactive keynote that infuses play, improv, and experiential learning.

If your organization wants to enhance leadership at all levels and create a culture that lives in a state of abundance rather than a state of scarcity, then this is the session for you! 

Participant Learning Objectives: 

  • Understand your current level of self love and compassion 

  • Move from limiting beliefs (scarcity statements) into more enriching thoughts (abundance statements) on a consistent basis

  • Realize that your thoughts affect your words, and that your words and tone affect everyone around you

  • Discover your own visionary power and how to harness it

  • Create and implement your i.D.i.e.h.l. Day 

  • Turn your thoughts and words into positive daily actions to become the highest version of yourself possible 

  • Walk away with a stronger understanding of self love and a road map to guide you forward 

 
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