Corporate Training
Alliance@work
The performance you want takes practice
From the Tony Award-winning Alliance Theatre, Alliance@work offers workshops that use actor training techniques to deliver transformative learning in today’s most in-demand areas of professional growth.
Whether you’re preparing for the next pitch, motivating your team, or leading a presentation, our program equips you and your team with the tools to engage any audience with confidence and presence.
Transferable skills from theater you need to lead and succeed
- Storytelling — Your message is up to 20x more memorable when delivered in a story.
- Stage Presence — Professional presence accounts for 26% of what it takes to advance within an organization.
- Emotional Intelligence — 82% of people would leave their current job for a more empathetic work culture.
- Empathy — 86% of employees and executives blame lack of collaboration as the top reason for workplace failures.
Supercharge your competitive advantage through the wonder and power of theatre
All learning experiences are customized to align with the team’s specific needs, ranging from high potentials and emerging leaders to senior leaders and C-suite executives. This includes learning outcomes, session duration, and job-related scenarios, ensuring effectiveness across all organizational levels.
Inspire Action through Strategic Storytelling
Communication Training
Your team will learn how to craft compelling narratives that captivate audiences, rally support for key initiatives, and foster a shared vision.
“Our team struggles to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.”
Training Solutions
- Leveraging Strategic Storytelling: Craft Stories That Drive Results
- Powerful Presentations: Engaging Audiences with Confidence
- Stories That Sell: Creating Pitches That Convert
- Your Leadership Story: Making the Executive Transition
- Leading Change Through Story: From Vision to Reality
- Directing AI: Bring Authenticity to AI-Generated Content
Lead with Emotional Intelligence
Leadership Development
Your leaders will identify and understand the patterns they have created when connecting with their teams and learn strategies to develop a more authentic leadership presence.
“We’re promoting technical experts to leadership roles, and they need help with the people side.”
Training Solutions
- Emotional Intelligence in Action: Unlocking Peak Performance
- The EQ Advantage: Building Authentic Business Relationships
- Executive Presence in Action: Lead with Authenticity, Connect with Purpose
- Leadership Under Pressure: Maintaining Connection in Challenging Times
- Beyond the Script: Story-Based Coaching Across Business Functions
- Thinking on Your Feet: Acing the Q&A
Collaborate by Design
Teambuilding
Participants are empowered to navigate group dynamics effectively by understanding and embracing diverse roles in collective problem-solving.
“We want team building that actually teaches skills, not just silly games.”
Training Solutions
- Teams in Flow: Being Present, Connected, and Real with Each Other
- Rehearsing Collaboration: EQ in Action
- Beyond Brainstorms: Problem-Solving with EQ
- Shared Stories, Stronger Teams: Getting to Know Each Other Better
- Networking for Introverts: Connecting with Confidence
Experiences
Alliance@work’s professional development training program offers services from Atlanta to the West Coast.
We can travel to your location or arrange alternative venues, providing equal hands-on experience for all participants, whether for one team member or two hundred.
For over a decade, Alliance@work has partnered with signature brands to facilitate experiences at their:
- Leadership Retreats
- Regional Meetings
- Onsite Team Training Days
- Client Engagement Experiences
- Lunch and Learns
- Teambuilding Gatherings
- Networking Events
Why Theater?
Rehearsal lets you fail faster.
By adapting the Rehearsal Process (probing, testing, and refining) to the workplace, your team will explore concepts “on their feet” and discover in the moment how to apply those concepts to their work. Alliance@work adapts the theater rehearsal process to help you learn while doing.
A theater director specializes in helping people rehearse authenticity. Directors create engaging rehearsal spaces where learning feels more like play than work, allowing the team to practice challenging moments until authentic leadership becomes a natural response, not a performance.
Meet Our Master Facilitator
J. Noble is committed to helping his clients master the art of rehearsed authenticity, showing up genuinely when the stakes are high. He believes being real requires practice, as presence, connection, and curiosity don’t always come easily in challenging situations.
With a professional theater director background, J. learned how to inspire people to collaborate and share incredible stories. Now, he applies those skills in the corporate world, helping teams improve communication and collaboration.
In 2014, he launched Alliance@work, an innovative corporate training program for the Tony Award-winning Alliance Theatre. Alliance@work uses theatrical rehearsal as a learning tool to enhance communication, collaboration, and leadership skills. As an artist with an academic background in finance and economics, he brings a unique blend of analytical thinking and empathy to corporate training and development.
His distinct background enables him to bridge the gap between data-driven decision-making and human-centered leadership, allowing organizations to foster both strategic insight and emotional intelligence in their teams.
Who We Work With
In a business that relies on relationships, the skills that Alliance@work builds are paramount to individual and organizational success.
Come Curious. Leave Changed.
Join us for transformative theater that speaks to the heart of Atlanta.