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by Corey Hansen (Author)
Steal the secrets actors use to master your performance on your business stage! Based on an actual executive coaching session "How to Act in Business" engages readers through a play-scripted dialogue between two spirited characters--Bob, a new leader, and his Coach as Bob strives to reach a higher position in his company. With every emerging topic Bob discovers that he didn't learn much in "B-school" about how to act in business. As Bob considers a new approach to effective performance revealed in the coaching session, he learns to gain control in making the most active choices in planning and playing the critical roles on his business stage
Author Biography
Corey Hansen has 20 years experience as a teacher and coach with a diverse background covering corporate and theatrical audiences. Corey has coached and consulted senior executives and their teams from Fortune 100 companies and specializes in Presenter Performance and Performance Coaching. He draws on his 30-year combined experience in acting, small business ownership, academic professorship and the corporate stage to help people of all levels effectively play their professional roles. Prior to his current status as workshop leader, actor, author, and founder of "How to Act in Business", Corey performed on the theatrical stage internationally. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting from the University of California, San Diego, and then as a Los Angeles based professional actor earned membership in actors' unions. From Arena Stage in Washington DC to Togamura, Japan, from TV to theatre to film, Corey learned techniques that prove invaluable to his clients as they deal with their daily performances in business. As a professor in the Graduate School of Drama at University of Washington, Seattle, Corey coached some of the nation's top talent in the Professional Actor Training Program. Specializing in Movement for the Actor using the Suzuki Method of Actor Training, Corey helped grow the program to a third place national ranking just behind Yale and NYU. With his twenty-year tenure at Sprint Corporation he held management positions in advanced products, client services, marketing, and leadership curriculum development. Most recently he hosted executive clients from all over the world as Briefing Consultant with the internationally acclaimed Sprint World Headquarters Executive Briefing Center. As an executive coach with Sprint, Corey coached senior executive team members in communication skills and overall performance improvement. He was often called upon to deliver customized keynotes for leadership all-hands meetings and was selected to host the live broadcast from the New York Stock Exchange as Sprint and Nextel webcast their merger. Former CEO Dan Hesse chose Corey to deliver the all-company live broadcast of their record-setting Spark network which helped Corey earn one of the company's top honors, the Circle of Excellence award. Corey's energetic and unique style earned him spots as lead presenter for NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Technology Forums and for NFL Monday Night Football and Super Bowl executive sessions.
