Episode #226
Treat humor as a deliberate, practical skill to achieve outcomes like lower stress, higher engagement, and better productivity—guided by MAP: Medium, Audience, Purpose.
Adopt simple habits: aim for one smile per hour, start meetings with light icebreakers, allow short comedic breaks, and reframe stress with humor.
View failure as data; Drew’s bombing led him to stop memorizing word-for-word and present extemporaneously—iterate instead of quitting.
I am, as far as I know, the world's first humor engineer.
There's 30-plus benefits to using humor in the workplace
I stood on stage I looked down and I said wow sorry wow and I did that for 30 seconds.
DREW TARVIN is the world’s first humor engineer, teaching people how to get better results while having more fun. Combining his background as a project manager at Procter & Gamble with his experience as a stand-up comedian, he reverse-engineers the skill of humor in a way that is practical, actionable, and gets results in the workplace. Through his company, Humor That Works, Drew has worked with more than 35,000 people at over 250 organizations, including the US Navy, ESPN, Microsoft, and the FBI. He is a bestselling author; has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and Fast Company; and his TEDx Talk has been viewed more than 5 million times.
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