Leadership teams
Develop presence, communication and adaptive leadership in complex, high-stakes situations.
Applied improvisation for leaders and teams
Helping your team collaborate under uncertainty.
When change, pressure or ambiguity makes collaboration harder, ListenAdapt helps leaders and teams practise how to listen, adapt and respond together.
Research-informedExperientialIn-person worldwide
Trusted by participants from
KPMG, DNB and the Norwegian Environment Agency
“Marius helped us see one another in ways we had not before.”
Why ListenAdapt
Leadership development and team collaboration for complex organisations
Complex organisations need people who can notice more, respond intelligently and create forward movement together.
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Stronger collaboration
Improve listening, shared attention and interaction across roles, teams and disciplines.
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Adaptive leadership
Build presence, read nonverbal signals and adapt behaviour in uncertain situations at work.
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Psychological safety
Create conditions for contribution, candid dialogue and constructive risk-taking at work. Read more.
Workshops & programmes
Applied Improvisation workshops and development programmes
Every engagement is shaped around the organisation, participants and current behaviours.
Organisations
Strengthen trust, feedback and collaboration across teams and key organisational functions.
Conferences & events
Create memorable, interactive sessions that turn relational insight into practical action.
Ready to explore what this could look like in your organisation?
Discuss a workshopHow it works
Experiential leadership development that changes behaviour
Structured exercises from theatre and acting make interaction patterns visible. Participants experiment, reflect, practise alternatives and connect learning to work.
Frame
Align on challenges and behaviours that matter.
Experience
Explore dynamics through embodied exercises.
Reflect
Turn experience into shared language and insight.
Practise & transfer
Rehearse new choices for professional situations.
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Research-informed Applied Improvisation training
ListenAdapt connects Applied Improvisation and acting techniques with research on embodied learning, nonverbal behaviour, power dynamics and transferable relational competence ("soft skills").
Applied Improvisation as embodied learning of soft skills
Embodied participation supported awareness of nonverbal behaviour, relational dynamics and potential transfer beyond the workshop.
Understanding nonverbal behaviour in social hierarchies
An observational study examining participation, confidence, engagement and risk-taking.
Trusted by participants from
Trusted leadership and team development workshops
“You get to know colleagues differently and step outside your comfort zone.”
“A fantastic experience—great fun and genuinely team-building.”
“Marius helped us see one another in ways we had not before.”
“A different and playful experience. It exceeded all expectations.”
“Educational, refreshing and inspiring.”
“Marius made every exercise feel safe and approachable.”
Founder & facilitator
Facilitator of learning and change
Marius Opheim Thomassen
Lecturer, researcher, coach and Applied Improvisation practitioner
Marius combines 14 years of professional teaching with formal training in pedagogy, business, technology, acting and improvisational theatre. He lectures and researches Applied Improvisation at Kristiania University of Applied Sciences.
He has facilitated groups from one to several hundreds participants and works in English or Norwegian.