Cathy Salit is the founder of the Global Play Brigade, a volunteer community of play, impro and performance activists providing free workshops online. She is the CEO Emerita of the award-winning performatory leadership consultancy Performance of a Lifetime, author of Performance Breakthrough: A Radical Approach to Success at Work (Hachette 2016), on the faculty of the postmodern training center, the East Side Institute and the advisory board of the Freestyle Love Supreme Academy. Cathy is an impro veteran, jazz singer, social entrepreneur and a social activist since her teenage years when she dropped out of junior high school, started her own radical free school and never looked back.