Improvisation in Business

Brent McKnight

Brent McKnight graduated with a Bachelor of Computer Engineering and Management from McMaster University and is currently enrolled as an MBA student studying the Management of Innovation and New Technology. During his time at McMaster he founded the Inane Asylum Performance Improvisation Team and the McMaster Improvisation Club. Through these institutions he performed for more than 500 people, taught 10 classes on improvisational skills to business and engineering students and ran over 50 workshops teaching improvisation.

Brent begins work as a technology analyst for Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) in the summer of 2002 where he hopes to continue working with collaborative technologies and organizational improvisational.

In the past, Brent has worked as an intern for IBM Canada where he was part of a competitive intelligence team responsible for the competitiveness of IBM's personal computer and server product line. In addition to the responsibilities of monitoring IBM's competitiveness, Brent initiated a project to examine how to better leverage news sources and access the knowledge present in IBM's sales force.

Brent can be reached at mcbrentca@yahoo.ca