The video below shows Rob Schiffmann interviewing actor/entrepreneur/philanthropist, Ashton Kutcher all about his different views on investing, technology, THORN and his other ventures. Read more background stories and inside scoops on interviewing Ashton Kutcher and many more things in Rob Schiffmann’s blog.

IBM Think

Think is the world’s most celebrated gathering of visionaries, technologists and innovators organized by IBM.  Think is where the curious convene and foremost business leaders connect to inspire and learn.

Rob Schiffmann

Rob Schiffmann is an award-winning Corporate Emcee, with twenty years of experience hosting meetings in such varied industries as banking, bio-tech, pharma, retail, food/beverage and many more.

Rob is the director and star of Broadway’s Next Hit Musical, a nationally-touring musical comedy improvisation show and spent many years as the star and director of Chicago City Limits, New York City’s longest running comedy show. Rob’s improvisational and musical background allows him to bring a level of interactivity to your meeting that will keep your audience consistently engaged through content-driven material that can either be pre-written or made up on the spot.

Whether Rob is improvising songs with your audience or writing and recording parody or original songs to underscore the content from an executive presentation, Rob’s understanding of the corporate environment allows him to be versatile without ever crossing boundaries.

Rob may be opening your meeting, providing fun interactive segues, creating songs and games for interstitial moments, introducing your speakers, hosting your live broadcast or interviewing your executives. Whatever Rob is doing, you can be sure he is helping to deliver your messages, make your people shine and make your meeting one that will be remembered for years to come!

Rob is a 3-time MAC award winner (Manhattan Association of Cabarets and Clubs), and hosted meetings internationally for many different corporations including Big Lots, Lenovo, Crayola, Merck, Folgers, Microsoft, Solvay, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Bank of America, Ortho Women’s Health, BMW, DuPont, Genentech, Pepsi, Dannon and many more. Rob will bring his quick wit and charm to your meeting to help you to have a memorable experience. Rob will make your meeting more fun and more effective.

Keynote Program

The Power to Pivot: Mistakes are Gifts!

Life rarely goes as planned. Things go awry and as hard as you try to stay on the path you have laid out, you will invariably be diverted: the powerpoint on your presentation will go out; your deadline is tomorrow instead of a week from tomorrow; you only have five minutes with a stakeholder when you thought you had fifteen! These are the moments in which we all throw our hands up in frustration, we panic and/or we freeze! However, there IS another way!

Rob Schiffmann can show you the path towards presence and acceptance in these moments and show you how you can turn these “mistakes” into gifts. This interactive keynote will have audience members on their feet and armed with the ‘Power to Pivot’. Through the use of interactive exercises, professional and personal examples, the audience will walk away with the understanding that some of the world’s greatest successes have come when constraint has given rise to ingenuity.

Topics covered included in the interactive keynote: staying in the moment, listening actively and harnessing the power to accept and build upon the unexpected. You will listen, you will laugh and you will learn to truly live in the moment!

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(5/29, 6/6,13,20 & 27, all at 7:30pm)

Broadway’s Next Hit Musical

Broadway’s Next Hit Musical

You’ll be amazed, and no doubt amused, as a talented cast of seasoned improvisers creates Broadway’s Next Hit Musical — off-Broadway at New York’s Theater Center — right before your very eyes. Experience the entire process as the audience’s best song suggestions are turned into a full-blown off-the-cuff musical complete with memorable characters, witty dialogue and plot twists. Every song is fresh, every scene is new and every show is different in this spontaneous and totally unpredictable evening of music and comedy, billed as Whose Line Is It Anyway? meets the Tony Awards. The New York Times has called the show “hilarious,” and Time Out NY says “At last! A musical of, for and by the people.”

Rob Schiffmann

Rob Schiffmann is an award-winning Corporate Emcee with twenty years of experience hosting meetings in such varied industries as banking, bio-tech, pharma, retail, food/beverage and many more.

Rob is the director and star of Broadway’s Next Hit Musical, a nationally-touring musical comedy improvisation show and spent many years as the star and director of Chicago City Limits, New York City’s longest running comedy show. Rob’s improvisational and musical background allows him to bring a level of interactivity to your meeting that will keep your audience consistently engaged through content-driven material that can either be pre-written or made up on the spot.

Whether Rob is improvising songs with your audience or writing and recording parody or original songs to underscore the content from an executive presentation, Rob’s understanding of the corporate environment allows him to be versatile without ever crossing boundaries.

Rob may be opening your meeting, providing fun interactive segues, creating songs and games for interstitial moments, introducing your speakers, hosting your live broadcast or interviewing your executives. Whatever Rob is doing, you can be sure he is helping to deliver your messages, make your people shine and make your meeting one that will be remembered for years to come!

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