Kathy Klotz-Guest MA, MBA
San Jose, California, United States
11K followers
500+ connections
About
To be competitive and innovative globally, your company has to be a place people WANT to…
Courses by Kathy
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Humor: A Leader’s Guide to Connection, Safety and Trust29m
Humor: A Leader’s Guide to Connection, Safety and Trust
By: Kathy Klotz-Guest
Articles by Kathy
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Boring Hurts Innovation: The Invisible Tax You Pay
Boring Hurts Innovation: The Invisible Tax You Pay
By Kathy Klotz-Guest MA, MBA
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Play! Creativity Lessons from Jim Henson for You and Your Team
Play! Creativity Lessons from Jim Henson for You and Your Team
By Kathy Klotz-Guest MA, MBA
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6 lessons from improv comedy to change your life, leadership and team learning
6 lessons from improv comedy to change your life, leadership and team learning
By Kathy Klotz-Guest MA, MBA
Contributions
Activity
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I'm honored to join Cypher Tech's Advisory Board. Their mission to improve psychological safety in workplaces is a perfect fit for my expertise and…
I'm honored to join Cypher Tech's Advisory Board. Their mission to improve psychological safety in workplaces is a perfect fit for my expertise and…
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My book made The Wall Street Journal & USA TODAY best seller lists. But for a long time, it seemed like no one wanted this book. It took me 4…
My book made The Wall Street Journal & USA TODAY best seller lists. But for a long time, it seemed like no one wanted this book. It took me 4…
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**TODAY 2:30pm ET/11:30am PT free virtual networking event for writers and authors** Dreaming of writing a book? Looking for a way to publish your…
**TODAY 2:30pm ET/11:30am PT free virtual networking event for writers and authors** Dreaming of writing a book? Looking for a way to publish your…
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Experience
Education
Volunteer Experience
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Silicon Valley Product Camp Director and Conference Organizer
Product Camp Silicon Valley
- 2 years
Product Camp is the largest (self-organizing) annual un-conference gathering of product managers and product marketing managers in Silicon Valley. A volunteer organizer for 3 years, I have been the marketing director for the last 3years of the conference. In 2014, I was the marketing director and conference organizer - proud to bring together a group of nine people to plan and execute the conference. With half the resources of 2013, 2014 was a fab event!
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Conference Marketing Chair for the AIN World Conference in SF 2012
APPLIED IMPROVISATION NETWORK
- less than a year
I created marketing messages and tactics for promoting the conference. I also created outreach to speakers and sponsors using a combination of channels including social media.
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Program Chair
Women In Consulting (WIC)
- 5 years
Secure and book all speakers and manage speaker topics, logistics, and introductions
Publications
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Stop Boring Me! How to Create Kick-Ass Marketing Content, Products and Idea Through the Power of Improv
Substantium
*While this book is for many folks, it was designed especially for CREATIVE DIRECTORS, MARKETERS, CONTENT TEAMS, SPEAKERS, CX TEAMS, CULTURE AND HR LEADERS
Coming up constantly with a steady stream of marketing content, stories, and ideas that inspire excitement, interest and banish boring can be challenging. Your content-weary audience is saying "Stop Boring Me!" And most business marketing stinks because it is transactional and not transformational.
Time to kick boring to the…*While this book is for many folks, it was designed especially for CREATIVE DIRECTORS, MARKETERS, CONTENT TEAMS, SPEAKERS, CX TEAMS, CULTURE AND HR LEADERS
Coming up constantly with a steady stream of marketing content, stories, and ideas that inspire excitement, interest and banish boring can be challenging. Your content-weary audience is saying "Stop Boring Me!" And most business marketing stinks because it is transactional and not transformational.
Time to kick boring to the curb!
Well, it doesn't have to be that way because everyone is creative. Your inner kid knows how to play. By applying key concepts from the world of improvisation, your marketing, sales, branding and products can go from boring to soaring! While this book will help you be more funny, it's focused on fun as a creative catalyst for content idea orgasms: when different things come together in a fresh and engaging way that makes your audience say "aww yeah!"
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The Marketing Executive's Bedtime Guide to Presenting with Humor. Don't Present: Connect!
Kathy Klotz-Guest / Keeping it Human, Inc.
Don't present; connect! Humor is human and it creates a powerful pattern disruption. Humor lowers the intellectual shield people have up all day long, so you can connect in a more human and memorable way. Humor doesn't start with being funny; it starts with having fun!
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The Executive's Guide to Bedtime Storytelling, vol. 4: Big Marketing Lessons From Comedy and Improv
Kathy Klotz-Guest
This ebook features a lot of great lessons about great marketing from the world of comedy and improvisation.
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The Executive's Bedtime Guide to Storytelling vol 3: Adding Humor and Comedy to B2B Content Marketing
Keeping it Human
Humor is human. It cuts clutter, establishes a connection with audiences, and sets you apart from the herd. It's an important pattern-disruption device and it works! This ebook is full of examples.
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The Executive's Bedtime Guide to Storytelling vol 2: A More Human Model for Product Storytelling
Keeping it Human
This short ebook presents an effective model for telling a better story about products and services. Hint: it's never about your products and services. It's about how they help people do something better!
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Busting the "Women Aren't Funny" Myth
The Glass Hammer Magazine
This is an interview I gave on women, humor and leadership and why it matters!
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The Executive's Bedtime Guide to Storytelling vol 1: The Human Case Study
Keeping it Human
Short ebook on how to write compelling, human case studies
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How CXOs Can IMPROVe Innovation
Kathy Klotz-Guest
Improvisation can improve business outcomes. It's so much more than just teambuilding. Find out more in this ebook.
Projects
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Seriously Funny Podcast....
By Kathy Klotz-Guest
Humorous women changing the rules? Hell yes. We don't hear many stories of women leaders doing their thing, being themselves and using THEIR unapologetic humor THEIR way. By doing that, they're blazing new paths, upending expectations and changing the status quo. There are a few stories and in the press; I know there's so many more. This podcast is dedicated to those stories and conversations. Who are these women? How are they doing it? What have they learned? What's…By Kathy Klotz-Guest
Humorous women changing the rules? Hell yes. We don't hear many stories of women leaders doing their thing, being themselves and using THEIR unapologetic humor THEIR way. By doing that, they're blazing new paths, upending expectations and changing the status quo. There are a few stories and in the press; I know there's so many more. This podcast is dedicated to those stories and conversations. Who are these women? How are they doing it? What have they learned? What's funny to them? Oh and we'll laugh. Part comedy; part interview, this podcast will change how we talk about funny women and work. -
Closing Keynote Speaker - Women's Center 35th Annual Women's Leadership Conference
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I was the closing keynote for the conference which brings almost 1,000 women and men leaders across the country for a day of learning about topics important to women.
Honors & Awards
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Leadership Award - Women's Center 35th Annual Leadership Conference
Women's Center D.C.
Awarded to women who advance women's causes with their leadership, thought leadership and voice in the world.
Languages
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Conversational in Spanish
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