Albert Samuels co-founded Spark Creative while a student at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. Spark was created to help leaders develop skills on becoming more agile thinkers and to be able to think more improvisationally.

While at the GSB, Al developed programming in creative thinking, presentations skills and improvisation for the Management Communication Program. Following business school, Al joined the Second City in Chicago, where he performed with their National Touring Company and was then tapped for their prestigious Mainstage Cast. He co-created and co-starred in the NBC comedy Sports Action Team and recently produced two additional TV pilots. Al has served on the Notre Dame Mendoza School of Business Executive Education program faculty since 2001 and the Kauffman Fellows Program since 2006.

With Spark, Al has developed programs in improvisation, team-building, presentation skills, and executive coaching for clients worldwide. His clients include McKinsey, Wipro, Boston Consulting Group, Microsoft, Domain Associates, Gazprom, Ogilvy & Mather, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and many others.

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