What if your next team-building experience actually changed the way your team communicates? Forget another bland teamwork session. Influential Interactions uses the principles of improvisation to build the communication skills that drive stronger teams: listening, collaboration, adaptability, creativity, confidence, and leadership.
Engage, adapt & influence. Get the Improv Edge in business!

Joe Hammer partners with forward-thinking organizations on interactive improv-based training and team-building workshops that build real skills in listening, collaboration, and adaptability under pressure. Some engagements open with Joe’s high-energy keynote presentation, a great way to set the tone at a conference, offsite, or leadership summit before the team moves into hands-on training. Others move right into Joe’s interactive training.
Joe opens your conference, offsite, or leadership summit with a high-energy overview of today’s communication and the skills that make interactions more effective.
Joe’s hands-on team-building training in listening, adaptability, and collaborative communication, built around your team’s real challenges… and in a fun way!
Participants leave with practical communication tools they can use immediately: listening better, thinking faster, collaborating more effectively, and handling the unexpected with confidence.
Every day, your team faces moments nobody rehearsed:
Your people can’t always prepare for what happens next… they need to know how to respond. Influential Interactions gives participants an engaging, hands-on way to practice exactly that!
Unlike comedians who are attempting improv corporate training, Joe has spent decades working in the professional speaking and business world. He understands the corporate landscape and knows how to turn improv principles into practical business skills.


Six communication skills, practiced hands-on through improvisation and built around the moments your team actually faces.
Be present instead of preparing your next response.
Express ideas with greater confidence and impact.
Build on ideas instead of shutting them down.
Stay effective when circumstances change.
Generate possibilities when the obvious answer isn’t enough.
Stay composed, connected, and responsive under pressure.

Why bring in a distant training provider when experienced corporate communications expertise is right here? Joe Hammer is a Scottsdale-based professional speaker, business-development expert, author, and improv coach with decades of experience helping professionals communicate, present, and perform more effectively.
As founder and director of The Outcasters Improv Training Center, Joe brings improv training directly from his Scottsdale training center to organizations throughout Arizona and beyond. He is also the author of The Improv Edge and Blank to Brilliant, two best-selling books exploring the power of improvisation well beyond the stage.
Real words from real clients, plus video testimonials from the leaders and teams Joe has trained.
The business world has caught on: improv skills are business skills.
Bringing Influential Interactions to your conference, offsite, leadership summit, or team? Complete the form to check Joe’s availability, and we’ll be in touch.

Joe’s classes go beyond simple improv games; you’ll discover practical and constructive principles of both short and long form improvisation – all while enjoying ample stage time, personalized coaching and considerate feedback. There’s something new in every class!
And it’s all taught in a safe, respectful, and non-judgmental setting. No egos. No harassment. No criticism. Just progressive improv training in a positive environment!

As a perceptive chameleon, Banter recognizes the importance of being adaptable. Banter came to be the Outcasters’ mascot after trying to find a place to cool off from the blazing Arizona sun. He stumbled inside a drop-in improv class and, after seeing what The Outcasters were all about, he quickly realized he was home! Whether you’re an experienced improviser, just beginning your improv journey, or attending one of our shows, Banter invites you to join us!