Tom Yorton Biography

Tom Yorton, the CEO of Second City Communications, is fostering a positive, disruptive force that transforms how people interact, cooperates, and learn in the workplace. His approach is influenced by the underlying presumption that business is an improvisational activity. His organization challenges counterproductive norms in marketing, learning, business development, and internal communications using humor, bringing much-needed compassion and honesty to work environments. Yorton specializes in the area where marketing, communications, change management, and corporate training come together. With a wide spectrum of Fortune 500 customers and charitable groups as clients, he has developed and expanded The Second City's corporate section into the largest and most diversified corporate comedy and improvisational training business in the world. Yorton's prior employment history includes vice president roles at the advertising agencies Hal Riney & Partners and Ogilvy & Mather, as well as senior marketing executive roles at Sears and 3COM Corporation. He has worked in a wide range of sectors, including those in the high-tech, Internet, retail, automotive, airline, fitness, restaurant, hotel, financial services, and healthcare fields. Yorton is well known for his writing and public speaking on the subject of his unwavering faith in the ability of improvisation and comedy to enhance personal performance and change organizations.

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