Sassi Speaks
Utilizing Comedy as a Tool to Help Businesses Thrive
Susan believes the world needs more laughter. Why?
Too many work environments are stressful, boring, and devoid of any levity, which negatively affects the health and productivity of their employees. The weight of seriousness is crushing the life force of our workers and hindering their performance. It’s time to create a happier, healthier environment that energizes employees and sets them up to thrive.
Laughter has been scientifically proven to reduce stress, lower blood pressure, increase resilience, and form stronger bonds between people. It also creates a fun work environment employees are excited and motivated to go to every day.
As a Professional Speaker, Susan has made it her mission to help organizations incorporate comedic tools and principles to generate a flourishing and more pleasant workplace.
“A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?” - Bob Hope
Susan has a BFA in Theatre from Point Park University and MFA from Carnegie Mellon in Entertainment Industry Management. She has been performing in front of live audiences as well as working in the corporate world for over twenty years and has been performing comedy for over ten.
She has satire articles published in Weekly Humorist, Robot Butt, Slackjaw, Jane Austen's Wastebasket, Monocle of Higher Education, Little Old Lady Comedy, Greener Pastures, and Platypus News.
She is a stand-up comedian at Flappers Comedy Club in Los Angeles and was a comedy writer for the 2017 CBS Diversity Showcase. Her comedy scripts have received recognition from Austin Film Fest, CineStory, Fresh Voices, The 'Breakk', Stage 32, Genre Screenwriting Contest, and ScreenCraft TV Writing Contest.
Meet Susan Sassi
Talk Topics
Comedy As a Tool to Maximize Productivity and Performance
Life can be tough, leaving us full of debilitating stress, anxiety, and depression. Laughter has proven useful in reducing stress and blood pressure, as well as increasing resilience, positivity, and serotonin. Implementing comedy tools will help energize employees’ performance and help them bounce back faster from setbacks, which will increase their productivity. The audience will leave this talk feeling lighter, more creative, and armed with tools to incorporate humor to maximize their productivity and performance. (Also available as a workshop)
Improv for Teambuilding
Improvisation is the ultimate trust fall exercise. The basic rule of “Yes And” makes you work together for a common goal. It strengthens both friendships and teams, and it opens the brain to greater creativity. It improves social skills, stronger bonds, and more symbiotic teams. The audience will leave this talk feeling happier, more connected, and more creative and will have immensely improved their teamwork skills. (Also available as a workshop)
Improv to Maximize Rapport with Clients, Co-workers, and Customers.
Improv is a great tool for improving social skills and strengthening relationships. These skills are great in business because they lead to happier co-workers and clients, which will draw in new business relationships. The audience will leave this talk feeling happier and more creative. They will know how to attract new friendships and customers and will have immensely improved their communication and social skills. (Also available as a workshop)
Testimonials
I really loved Susan Sassi. It's really cool to learn how to use humor more in the corporate environment
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Kristina Adel
I work for a non-profit and so a lot of the people I work with are stressed out because of the times. It's always nice to make them feel more comfortable with jokes. So we are going to use some of her methods to do that.
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Judy Anne Deaton
It was so much fun, there was so much that I can apply to my work life and regular life. It was really worthwhile.
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Mage Lanz
She was really funny. I definitely see the value in laughter and joy and we all need more of that in our life.
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Stewart Baxter
“Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.” - Elbert Hubbard
