Karen Hough Majidzadeh is the Founder & CEO of ImprovEdge, the first company to combine improv with neuroscience and psychology to create business training and coaching with an improv twist. Karen is an international keynote speaker, Amazon bestselling author, recipient of the Silver Stevie Award for Most Innovative Business of the Year, the WNBA Inspiring Woman Award, and the WBENC PitchPivot Grand Prize. She is the Vice Chair for CAPA. Her first career was a professional actor/improviser with The Second City of Chicago,and she did extensive theater, TV, radio and film. Her second career was a sales executive for tech startups. Her third career: Entrepreneur! She is the author of three books, a Yale grad, avid hiker, philanthropist, has three adult children and lives with her husband and labrador in Ohio.