The Second City
Janna Sobel has extensive experience in education and training, currently serving as an Instructional Facilitator at the Innovation Academy at the IDEA Center since April 2019, and as a Training Facilitator at the University of Notre Dame - Mendoza College of Business since February 2019. Additionally, Janna holds the position of Rehearsal Hall Facilitator at The University of Chicago Booth School of Business since October 2019. With a long-standing commitment to teaching, Janna has been a teacher at The Second City since 2009 and at Chicago Dramatists since January 2018.
The Second City
Second City Works is the B2B side of The Second City, the world’s leading comedy theatre and school of improvisation. They collaborate with clients to create improv-based learning, digital content, and entertainment. By elevating messages so people want to listen, they help companies engage their workforce and win over customers. In short, theymake work better. The businesses that thrive in the chaos of ever-present change are the ones with a new toolkit. It’s a toolkit that values speed, agility, collaboration, comfort with change, willingness to fail, and the creativity to solve old problems in new ways. Ultimately, they have the toolkit of an improviser.