Team
Jay Rhoderick, Co-Founder & President
I co-founded Bizprov around a once radical idea: use the core principles of improvisational theater to ignite bravery, agility, and genuine connection in leaders and teams. These qualities are essential in today's volatile, complex, and often ambiguous business landscape. My mission is to help leaders and teams navigate complexity with confidence and authenticity. I believe, as Victor Borge said, that 'laughter is the shortest distance between two people,' and I bring that spirit to every engagement.
My professional background spans performance, theater, arts education, executive coaching, and team building. And I’ve used my broad experience to help executives all over the world balance strategic thinking with a willingness to experiment. From strengthening personal brands at Pfizer, to stoking collaboration at Visa, to creating more agile CIBC bankers in Toronto, to teaching crisis storytelling to Harvard Business School fellows, to embedding core leadership core values with engineers in Mexico and financiers in Hong Kong, I’ve helped executives think faster on their feet and tap into their emotional intelligence.
I earned my BA from Swarthmore College, spent years on stage with Second City and Yale School of Drama, and was a founding member of the groundbreaking Improv group, Burn Manhattan. I even had the wild privilege of prepping US Olympians for the media circus at the Beijing Games (they were way funnier than expected).
Chip Garner, Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer
I'm a strategic, executive, and digital communications leader with over 15 years of excellence in creating award-winning communications and marketing programs, building and guiding cross-functional teams, and advising CEOs and Boards. With a background in journalism, film production, an MBA, and fluency in media relations, marketing, and digital strategy, I'm equally at home engaging with the press, crafting targeted social media campaigns, or binge-watching a series. My favorite thing to do, however, is to be of service and help people succeed - professionally and personally - however success is defined.
In recent roles, I crafted the communications infrastructures for an innovative EdTech startup and the first global DEI trade group for the Marketing industry, led communications strategy for some of the country's leading nonprofits, foundations, labor unions, and advocacy organizations, and piloted the Americas communications team for British Airways. I’ve also held senior positions at strategic communications agencies, including Ogilvy, MWW, and Rubenstein. Along the way, I somehow found time to produce and market two award-winning independent feature films.
I earned my MBA from Fordham University and my BA from Amherst College, and I serve on the Advisory Council of that school’s Loeb Center for Career Exploration and Planning. A NY native, I currently reside in Brooklyn, home to the best pizza in the world.
