Tiffany von Emmel
Tiffany von Emmel, improviser-at-large, enjoys working as an organizational consultant and transformative educator with leaders, consultants, and performing artists in the U.S. and Europe. Tiffany is currently making a documentary about how our bodies generate different kinds of transformative knowledge in improvisation.
Her Ph.D. thesis is about the physical theater improvisation, the body and transformative knowledge-creation. A popular guest presenter in the organization development community and at Fielding Graduate Institute, her seminars include ‘improvisation and the use of self in organizations’, ‘Improvisation Labs: a group workout for sustainability’ and ‘arts-based methods in research and practice’. After a history in musical theater from the late 70’s to 1980’s in New York, Tiffany helped launch National Business Network, a 3M company. She then taught and practiced Zen Shiatsu and somatics for ten years. In the 1990’s, she founded The Empowerment Place, a transformative education center for adults in California. With doctoral studies in Human and Organization Development at Fielding, Tiffany won a 2002 award from the Center for Creative Inquiry and Academy of Management O.D.C. division. She lives in San Francisco with her partner, Dietmar Brinkmann.
