Karen Hough is the founder and CEO of ImprovEdge, a company that creates training and consulting using improvisation to teach business skills. She won the silver Stevie Award for Most Innovative Company of the Year 2012, she received the Athena PowerLink Award for outstanding woman - owned business, and she is a national keynote speaker for conferences such as the ESPN Engaged Speaker Series, the Key Bank national tour, and the PricewaterhouseCoopers Metro Women's Initiative conference.