"Practice Your Game Face" - An Interview with Melissa Jones Briggs
Episode description
Kat and Alex have a wonderful conversation with Melissa on a range of topics. We discuss the class Acting with Power, the impact it has on her students and the first time she taught it. Melissa shares some interesting insights into people's relationship to power and the difference between power, status, and authority. We talk about chasing those moments where everything just seems to click and things just seems to flow. Kat and I also delve into the role of status and status behaviors around gender with our guest and talks about what we can be more aware of in helping to shift those dynamics. We also discuss improv as a vehicle for personal experimentation and transformation before Melissa shares an awesome, insightful and somewhat heartbreaking Dare to Be Human story
On Faculty at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business (GSB) Melissa Jones Briggs works as a Lecturer in Organizational Behavior teaching Acting with Power. This popular second-year MBA and executive education elective uses performance technique to help students address their issues around power, authority and status. Melissa works as an Executive Coach and Consultant at People Rocket, a management design firm. She also serves on the Board of Directors at Youth in Arts, an arts education non-profit with a focus on social justice. She is an Advisor at Women’s Startup Lab in Silicon Valley. Melissa worked as an actor in professional theater and film in New York City and San Francisco. She has two small girls with her filmmaker husband in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Check out the links below to follow Melissa on social media and for the books and people we reference!
'Getting (More of) What Your Want by Margaret A. Neale and Thomas Z. Lys'
Logo by Derek Walker
Theme Music: Blue Dot Sessions - Planting Flags