Wade Jackson

Wade Jackson (BA, Dip. Drama, NLP) is an actor, company director, entrepreneur, corporate trainer, writer and producer. He is a co-director of Improv Solutions, experiential training company and director of Covert Entertainment a comedy theatre production company. He is in demand as a Keynote Speaker and entertainer and has appeared many times on national television and radio. He has also featured in every major newspaper and magazine in New Zealand including Unlimited and NZ Marketing Magazine. He brings an amazing wealth of life experience to all his presentations. Wade is a double world improvisation champion (Calgary 2000, Chicago 2002) and is the founding member of The Improv Bandits, NZ's most successful improvised comedy act. He has acted in feature films and in the US hit TV shows Xena, Hercules and Power Rangers. He is able to keep audiences thoroughly entertained and get them to not only hear but also experience his key messages. He has been designing and teaching programmes that impart the principles of Creativity, Creativity, Leadership, Change Management, Emotional intelligence and Organisational Storytelling to corporate organisations, tertiary institutions, actors, students, youth at risk and community groups since 1996. Fluent in Japanese with 3 internationally recognised black belts in Martial Arts, he has also studied Shiatsu, Japanese acupressure massage and is a qualified aerobics instructor. He is also a qualified NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) Practioner and incorporates this applied psychology in all of his work. Wade's interests are helping and inspiring people to create the life they want to live. He currently spends most of his time on stages and in organisations around the world performing and teaching the art of improvisation and using it as a vehicle for life mastery. Wade has a first-rate track record and is truly unique because he is at the leading in both the creative and business worlds.