As one of Canada's most celebrated cultural institutions, Soulpepper is dedicated to enhancing workplace culture through the transformative power of storytelling. We believe stories foster connection, deepen understanding, and inspire positive change. Our creative, passionate, and inclusive approach embodies values of belonging, excellence, and innovation, empowering your team to communicate with clarity and purpose.
Our program is led by longtime Soulpepper artist Derek Boyes, who brings over 20 years of experience in corporate training. Our team of expert facilitators—seasoned actors with deep insight into human behaviour—use live simulation to recreate authentic workplace scenarios. This immersive method unlocks deeper learning, encouraging participants to engage, reflect, and grow.
We’ve worked with leading organizations including Hydro One, Instacart, Ivey Business School, CBI Health, and Albourne Partners. We’ve also partnered for several years with one of Canada’s largest telecommunications companies to coach senior executives and directors—helping them sharpen their communication, lead with clarity, and drive cultural change.
Below are some of the services Soulpepper’s Corporate Training Team can provide for your organization:
Corporate Culture Forum Theatre
Time Commitment – 2 hours
Number of participants – up to 200
What is it?
Holding a mirror up to corporate culture. Soulpepper uses Forum Theatre, the UNESCO-sanctioned method for creating change, applying theatrical techniques to identify the strengths and challenges facing a company’s workplace, and addressing potentially toxic elements.
What do we do during this workshop?
In advance, Soulpepper will connect with your HR team and then write, cast and produce a live theatre scene between 2 employees of a fictional company that mirrors your organization’s communication concerns. In action, the delegates will be tasked with identifying the intolerable behaviors they have witnessed. Before the scene restarts, the observers will focus on changing the motivation of one of the actors through suggestions for a new approach and eventually become part of the action as they are rotated into the conversation to see if they can embody their own feedback. This has proven to be an entertaining and challenging way for your company’s leaders to practice their approaches to detoxifying and improving relationships in the workplace. This can be a stand-alone experience but it is also a perfect precursor to the Ignite Positive Change workshop that Soulpepper also offers.
To learn more about details, costs, and availability, please contact: corporate@soulpepper.ca
Ignite Positive Change
Time Commitment – 2 hours
Number of participants – 2-12
What is it?
All employees are familiar with the feeling of a conversation they have been dreading or an unproductive relationship they have been avoiding. Ignoring or working around the issue only adds to frustration and toxicity in the workplace. Our coaching and practical preparation models give your company’s leaders the expertise and confidence to Ignite Positive Change in your organization.
What do we do during this workshop?
A half-day workshop will allow participants to identify, research and practice delivering a direct impactful message to stimulate powerful conversations that Ignite Positive Change. It can accommodate up to 12 delegates per day and take place in an environment that would provide a plenary room and 3 break-out rooms.
NOTE: A full day experience adds Corporate Culture Forum Theatre to the session. This has proven to be an entertaining and challenging way for corporate leaders to practice their approaches to improving their work relationships.
To learn more about details, costs, and availability, please contact: corporate@soulpepper.ca
Tap Into Your Brain's Creative Side
Time Commitment – 2-3 hours
Number of Participants – up to 25 per room (able to accommodate multiple rooms)
What is it?
Participants will be challenged to explore the power of the brain’s right side through improvisation and other creative games in a team-vs-team competition. Both hilarious and insightful, this workshop offers a pathway to the creative side of the brain and ways to bring this powerful tool to the workplace.
What do we do during this workshop?
Give your employees an off-site experience they will never forget in the home of the multi award-winning Soulpepper theatre company in Toronto’s beautiful Distillery Historic District. Specifically designed for your company, our coaches will have teams face off against each other in Olympic-style events and delegates will be rewarded for exploring the spontaneous side of their brains. Delegates will have a chance to step outside their routine thinking, practice authentic collaboration, and experience the thrill of creative risk taking.
To learn more about details, costs, and availability, please contact: corporate@soulpepper.ca
How To Dramatically Improve Your Presentations
Time Commitment - 2 hour minimum
Number of participants – 1 per session
What is it?
“Friends, Romans, countrymen”, let Soulpepper’s highly successful corporate team help you impactfully and confidently deliver your next presentation through a rigorous one-on-one coaching session. Soulpepper’s experienced coaches are capable of combining their corporate experience with their award-winning performance abilities to offer insights and tools that will prove valuable well beyond your next presentation.
Workshop learnings include:
- Sharpening your message
- Vocal and Breathing techniques
- Enhancing Body Language
- Optimize your delivery
- Maximize your confidence
To learn more about details, costs, and availability, please contact: corporate@soulpepper.ca
Not sure what might work best for your environment? We’d love to connect and put together a custom package that is right for you and your team. Contact us at corporate@soulpepper.ca
The Soulpepper Corporate Improv workshop was the perfect team building activity to kick off our quarterly team event. The facilitators did an incredible job of incorporating our corporate values and pillars into the session. I was also so impressed with their ability to create a safe space for everyone to let loose and have fun. Finally, I was blown away by the quality of the theatre space with coffee on sight and plenty of natural light. I would recommend this to anyone! If you're considering this for your next corporate offsite, don't hesitate to book!
- Dean Hayward, Instacart
I’ve had the pleasure of working with Derek Boyes and his Soulpepper Theatre Company on two extensive leadership development programs. Their work is a highlight of our experiential programs. Not only is the Forum Theatre methodology an ideal way to “show, not tell,” but it also gets at the nuances of human dynamics and interactions that aren’t possible from any other experiential means. Derek and his troupe are true professional partners and collaborators and I welcome the opportunity to work with them in the future.
- Natalie Currie, Natalie Currie Enterprises Inc.
Thank you for bringing it [Forum Theatre] to life for our Executives.
- Deborah M., Director, Rogers Communications
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