Diane Mashia

Diane Mashia is the President and Lead Improvisor for Learning Out Loud, a performance leadership company dedicated to the improvement of workplace relationships through the use of improvisation and theatre games. Learning Out Loud is a fun, entertaining, and interactive way to develop communication and interpersonal skills and discover creative ways to solve problems. Core offerings of Learning Out Loud include strategic networking, team development, and interpersonal communication.
Miss Mashia’s background includes a Bachelor of Arts degree in Cultural Anthropology from Smith College in Northampton, MA; over twelve years’ training and development experience in the corporate environment; and active membership in the Educational Theatre Association/International Thespian Society, and the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). She is a certified practitioner of the Myers-Briggs personality Type Indicator (MBTI) having studied type theory extensively with Type Resources in Gaithersburg, MD. She has also studied acting and improvisational theater with Patty Lewis at the Shipping Dock, is involved in local community theater both acting and directing, and leads a comedy-improvisational theater troupe called “Some Assembly Required,” which she founded in 2000. Her client list includes The Rochester Business Alliance, Eastman Kodak Company, Tobin & Associates, Inc., Unifrax Corporation, Finger Lakes Community College, the Juvenile Detention Association of New York State, the Massachusetts Credit Union League, the Massachusetts Bank Internal Auditors, the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) and the MBTA Employees’ Credit Union.

Miss Mashia’s work has been featured in The Torch, a monthly newsletter of the Genesee Valley Chapter of the American Society for Training and Development (ASTD), and in the Rochester Business Journal. She has also been a guest of WWRM 101.3 FM’s morning radio program, “The Tony and Dee Show.”