Max Dickins is director of Hoopla, the UK's first improvisation training school and London's first dedicated improv comedy theatre. Offstage, as a coach and business speaker, he has brought improvisation into workplaces across the world, with clients including Facebook, Google and Unilever - even teaching candidates on the British version of hit TV show The Apprentice (BBC1). As a comedian and writer, he has had his own Sony Award-nominated show on Absolute Radio and taken critically acclaimed shows to the Edinburgh Festival. His book My Groupon Adventure was described by the Irish Examiner as 'full of heart'.