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Turn expertise into influence

A 10-week journey into Humor Intelligence, led by Andrew Tarvin, that turns humor into a practical communication skill through weekly teaching, daily reps, and AI coaching.
A 10-week journey into Humor Intelligence, led by Andrew Tarvin, that turns humor into a practical communication skill through weekly teaching, daily reps, and AI coaching.
  • Andrew teaches every week's lesson himself, recorded live with the founding cohort, and all ten are in the app the day you join
  • Not a comedy class... a practical communication skill you build in the meetings and conversations you already have
  • Build confidence with 5 to 10 minute daily reps
Andrew Tarvin
Created byAndrew Tarvin
World's first Humor Engineer. Top 1% TEDx speaker with 16M+ views, trusted by 750+ organizations including NASA, Microsoft, and the United Nations.
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Your coach

You’re great at delivering facts, but your humor often gets lost in technical explanations. Try this quick exercise: add a playful analogy to your next update to make your point more memorable.

Today's Practice

7 min • Crafting a Work Story

Continue practice
Take the quiz to build your personalized Humor Intelligence plan
Why it works

Humor is a skill you can practice

Nobody is born funny. Some people just learned it early on and never noticed they were building a powerful skill. Humor Intelligence breaks that skill apart into 8 competencies you can measure, practice, and improve, the same way you got good at everything else on your résumé.

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Nice job!

You crushed your goal of using humor in 5 meetings this week.

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Stop thinking you have to be naturally funny

You don't need to be funny to begin. Most people already have more of this skill than they realize, and the work is unlocking your own style of humor, not installing someone else's. One founding member said the first weeks "helped me to realize and appreciate how I do already use humor."

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Make your expertise easier to remember

You've watched worse ideas win because they were delivered better. Learn the mechanics of being memorable... how to open, land a point, and be the part of the meeting people repeat later.

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Build the habit one real moment at a time

You tried a joke once, it died, and you decided that settled it. It didn't. You practice in small, low-stakes moments, your coach tells you what actually landed and what to adjust, and you build from there. The world won't fall apart due to your bad jokes.

A humor coach in your pocket

Daily practice for humor that actually helps at work

Your coach is Drewbot, the AI Andrew trained on his own frameworks, and its whole job is making the skill stick after the lesson ends. Each week opens with Andrew teaching that week's lesson himself, recorded live with the founding cohort and waiting in your Library from the day you join. Each day, Drewbot turns the teaching into five to ten minutes you'll actually do... a 30-Second Lesson, one real-world exercise called Today's Rep, and a Humor Notebook prompt that trains you to notice what makes people lean in. Weekly challenges take the skill out of the app and into your actual life. The Library is stocked from day one with all ten session recordings, Andrew's 501 Ways list, his book Humor That Works, and his TEDx talk. It adapts to your goals and your situations (presentations, meetings, leadership, writing, tough conversations), and it will tell you the truth about what's working. It's the gym for your sense of humor. No spandex required (though technically allowed).

Turn expertise into influenceTurn expertise into influence
Take the quiz to build your personalized Humor Intelligence plan

Turn expertise into influence

A 10-week journey into Humor Intelligence, led by Andrew Tarvin, that turns humor into a practical communication skill through weekly teaching, daily reps, and AI coaching.
A 10-week journey into Humor Intelligence, led by Andrew Tarvin, that turns humor into a practical communication skill through weekly teaching, daily reps, and AI coaching.
  • Andrew teaches every week's lesson himself, recorded live with the founding cohort, and all ten are in the app the day you join
  • Not a comedy class... a practical communication skill you build in the meetings and conversations you already have
  • Build confidence with 5 to 10 minute daily reps
Andrew Tarvin
Created byAndrew Tarvin
World's first Humor Engineer. Top 1% TEDx speaker with 16M+ views, trusted by 750+ organizations including NASA, Microsoft, and the United Nations.
Background
Hero image

Your coach

You’re great at delivering facts, but your humor often gets lost in technical explanations. Try this quick exercise: add a playful analogy to your next update to make your point more memorable.

Today's Practice

7 min • Crafting a Work Story

Continue practice
Take the quiz to build your personalized Humor Intelligence plan
Why it works

Humor is a skill you can practice

Nobody is born funny. Some people just learned it early on and never noticed they were building a powerful skill. Humor Intelligence breaks that skill apart into 8 competencies you can measure, practice, and improve, the same way you got good at everything else on your résumé.

Feature image

Nice job!

You crushed your goal of using humor in 5 meetings this week.

emoji_objects

Stop thinking you have to be naturally funny

You don't need to be funny to begin. Most people already have more of this skill than they realize, and the work is unlocking your own style of humor, not installing someone else's. One founding member said the first weeks "helped me to realize and appreciate how I do already use humor."

record_voice_over

Make your expertise easier to remember

You've watched worse ideas win because they were delivered better. Learn the mechanics of being memorable... how to open, land a point, and be the part of the meeting people repeat later.

star

Build the habit one real moment at a time

You tried a joke once, it died, and you decided that settled it. It didn't. You practice in small, low-stakes moments, your coach tells you what actually landed and what to adjust, and you build from there. The world won't fall apart due to your bad jokes.

A humor coach in your pocket

Daily practice for humor that actually helps at work

Your coach is Drewbot, the AI Andrew trained on his own frameworks, and its whole job is making the skill stick after the lesson ends. Each week opens with Andrew teaching that week's lesson himself, recorded live with the founding cohort and waiting in your Library from the day you join. Each day, Drewbot turns the teaching into five to ten minutes you'll actually do... a 30-Second Lesson, one real-world exercise called Today's Rep, and a Humor Notebook prompt that trains you to notice what makes people lean in. Weekly challenges take the skill out of the app and into your actual life. The Library is stocked from day one with all ten session recordings, Andrew's 501 Ways list, his book Humor That Works, and his TEDx talk. It adapts to your goals and your situations (presentations, meetings, leadership, writing, tough conversations), and it will tell you the truth about what's working. It's the gym for your sense of humor. No spandex required (though technically allowed).

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Humor Mindset Shift

Humor Observation Journal

Today's Practice

7 min • Crafting a Work Story

Start practice

Humor Reflection

Including everything you need to succeed:

psychology

A 10-week Humor Intelligence curriculum

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One competency per week through the 8 Humor Intelligence competencies, along Andrew's 4-phase development arc (UNLOCK, DISCOVER, MASTER, AMPLIFY).

school

Thirty-second lessons, then real reps

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Each practice day is useful in 5 to 10 minutes... a 30-Second Lesson, Today's Rep in your real work, and a Humor Notebook prompt.

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Andrew teaches every week

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Ten lessons, one per competency, each taught live to the founding cohort and recorded. All ten are in your Library from day one, so the teaching never waits on a calendar (or on Andrew's travel schedule).

insights

A Humor Notebook that sharpens what you notice

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Two minutes a day on what landed, what didn't, and what you want to try next. Drewbot responds to what you actually wrote, not with generic praise.

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Weekly challenges that leave the app

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Each week you get one real assignment for your actual work. Open a meeting differently, rewrite an email, try a callback in a one-on-one. Nothing counts until it happens in front of someone.

star

Progress you can watch, without turning humor into homework.

keyboard_arrow_down

Track your reps, your real-world wins, and a confidence trend that moves. You could take another communication course, or you could build the same muscles and enjoy the week you spend doing it.

tips_and_updates

A Resource Library  from day one 

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All ten session recordings, the 501 Ways to Use Humor list, Andrew's book Humor That Works, the 30 Benefits of Humor at Work, and his TEDx talk, all inside the app the moment you join.

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AI-powered coaching, 24/7

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Meeting prep, presentation punch-up, a tricky email, recovering from a joke that didn't land. Ask anytime and get advice built on Andrew's frameworks.

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Proof it worked, not vibes

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A research-backed assessment tracks your growth from start to finish, so you see the change in numbers (and the room).

Created by Andrew Tarvin

"I didn't change what I was saying. I changed how I said it, and people started reading my emails, showing up to my meetings, and doing what I asked. Same engineer. Better delivery."

Andrew Tarvin

Andrew Tarvin

World's first Humor Engineer. Top 1% TEDx speaker with 16M+ views, trusted by 750+ organizations including NASA, Microsoft, and the United Nations.

For as long as I can remember, I've lived at the unusual intersection of humor and high performance. I started as an engineer who loved spreadsheets as much as stand-up, and I learned the hard way that technical expertise alone doesn't make ideas land. Like a lot of capable professionals, I was told to "be more authentic" and "connect better" by people who never once explained how.

So I spent 15+ years decoding it. I've performed more than 1,000 stand-up and improv comedy shows, taped a Dry Bar Comedy special, delivered a TEDx talk on humor at work that's passed 16 million views, and brought this methodology to more than 750 organizations, including NASA, Microsoft, the FBI, and the United Nations. Most "business humor" experts can't be funny on a stage, and most comedians can't translate their craft into a Monday meeting. I've made a career of doing both.

The bridge is Humor Intelligence... a research-backed framework of 8 specific, learnable competencies (Appreciation, Consideration, Curation, Creation, Performance, Facilitation, Application, and Empowerment), organized into a 4-step development arc... UNLOCK, DISCOVER, MASTER, AMPLIFY. The methodology has been validated through a research partnership with the Social Research Lab at the University of Northern Colorado and refined across 10,000+ Humor Intelligence Assessment responses. Humor isn't entertainment. It's the fastest professional communication skill you can develop to be more memorable, more influential, and more effective... and to have a better time at work while you're at it.

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Follow Andrew's proven process & turn expertise into influence with humor

Unlock permission to use humor at work
Build the 8 Humor Intelligence competencies one week at a time
Read any room and know what fits
Turn expertise into stories and moments people remember
Discover your own sense of humor (you have one, I checked the data)
Create small, low-risk moments of levity
Use humor strategically to open strong, land points, and build trust
Draw humor out of groups and teams
Lead meetings people don't secretly want to escape
Make it a daily habit that outlasts the course
AI-powered practice

Personalized to where you want humor to work

AI is famously bad at humor. Ask most chatbots for a joke and you'll get something about a scarecrow out standing its field. Drewbot is the AI coach Andrew trained on the research-backed Humor Intelligence framework, so your daily practice connects to your goals, your work, and what you wrote yesterday.

lightbulb

Turn Data Into a Punchline: Humor for Analytical Thinkers

Personalized Lesson • 12 min
Learn how to transform technical insights into memorable, workplace-appropriate humor. This activity guides you through the Humor Intelligence framework, helping you unlock your authentic comedic voice and apply it to real work scenarios.
What to do
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Permission to Play
2 min
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search
Spot the Humor Opportunity
3 min
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edit
Craft Your Punchline
4 min
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work
Apply in a Real Meeting
3 min
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How it works

Build Humor Intelligence in 4 simple steps

Start with your goals, then practice the skill in small, useful pieces.

Onboarding Quiz

What’s your main goal for using humor at work?

Make my expertise more memorable
Connect better with colleagues
Increase my influence in meetings
Feel more authentic and confident
1

Take the personalization quiz

Share where you want humor to work and what gets in your way, so the app can build your plan around your real professional life. It takes 2 minutes.

Your Plan

Week 1

Unlock Your Humor Mindset

Take the Humor Intelligence Assessment
Find out what kind of funny you are
Score your first real-world win
The funniest homework you'll ever get
Week 2Upcoming

Discovering Your Humor Style

2

Get your Humor Intelligence plan

Your plan is built from your answers, and Day 1 is ready the day you join. No start date to wait for, and no cohort to catch up to.

Today, November 4

6
V

Humor Mindset Shift

Lesson • 3 min

Humor Observation Journal

Journal • 4 min

Work Story Practice

Practice • 7 min

Humor Reflection

Reflection • 3 min

3

Learn from Andrew weekly, practice daily

Each week opens with Andrew's recorded lesson on that competency, about an hour, taught live to the founding cohort. The app turns each lesson into daily reps... the 30-Second Lesson, Today's Rep, and your Humor Notebook. Five to ten minutes a day, designed to survive a busy week.

Your Progress

Real-World Wins

52.3 wins

as of Oct 27

AugustNovember

Humor Reps

32.7 reps

as of Oct 27

AugustNovember
4

Prove it worked

Watch your Humor Reps, Real-World Wins, and Humor Confidence build, then re-take the Humor Intelligence Assessment in Week 10 and see in numbers what changed since Week 1.

It only takes 2 minutes to get started

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Don't take my word for it.Take theirs.

Engineers, executives, and self-described serious people.

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Andrew provides the most analytical and data-driven program on humor I have ever seen. Looking at it from an engineering mindset was absolutely new and mind blowing for me.
C
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Craig C., Senior Operations Manager and comedian
VERIFIED CUSTOMER
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Across two companies and over 10 years, I've hired Andrew Tarvin to run his humor trainings a number of times, and my colleagues consistently agree, it's one of the most fun and rewarding trainings you could participate in.
R
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Renee F., Senior Product Manager
VERIFIED CUSTOMER
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An interactive, systematic deep dive into the mechanics and usage of workplace humor. Quantifying my competency scores gave me a clear development roadmap showing which skills I should improve.
J
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John S., Speaker and USMC combat vet
VERIFIED CUSTOMER
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Humor Intelligence opens up an untapped world of humor within. Something you can develop, nurture, and play with to connect with others and yourself.
M
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Marilyn F., Clinical Social Worker
VERIFIED CUSTOMER
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The AI coach was so helpful and easy to use. It helped me make my orientation sessions a little more fun!
E
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Erin H., founding member
VERIFIED CUSTOMER
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I learned more from him in two hours than I did in a full semester of grad school. He's the real deal... funny, strategic, and useful in a way that most speakers aren't.
E
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Emily C., Author and Coach
VERIFIED CUSTOMER
FAQ

Your questions, answered

Who is Humor Intelligence for?
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Is this a comedy class?
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How much time does it take?
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How does the 10-week journey work?
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How personalized is the app?
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What happens after the 10 weeks?
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Ready to practice?

Start building the skill of humor at work

Day 1 is ready the moment you join. Ten weeks of lessons from Andrew and a coach in your pocket that tells you the truth, all in ten minutes a day.

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Including everything you need to succeed:

psychology

A 10-week Humor Intelligence curriculum

keyboard_arrow_down

One competency per week through the 8 Humor Intelligence competencies, along Andrew's 4-phase development arc (UNLOCK, DISCOVER, MASTER, AMPLIFY).

school

Thirty-second lessons, then real reps

keyboard_arrow_down

Each practice day is useful in 5 to 10 minutes... a 30-Second Lesson, Today's Rep in your real work, and a Humor Notebook prompt.

emoji_emotions

Andrew teaches every week

keyboard_arrow_down

Ten lessons, one per competency, each taught live to the founding cohort and recorded. All ten are in your Library from day one, so the teaching never waits on a calendar (or on Andrew's travel schedule).

insights

A Humor Notebook that sharpens what you notice

keyboard_arrow_down

Two minutes a day on what landed, what didn't, and what you want to try next. Drewbot responds to what you actually wrote, not with generic praise.

public

Weekly challenges that leave the app

keyboard_arrow_down

Each week you get one real assignment for your actual work. Open a meeting differently, rewrite an email, try a callback in a one-on-one. Nothing counts until it happens in front of someone.

star

Progress you can watch, without turning humor into homework.

keyboard_arrow_down

Track your reps, your real-world wins, and a confidence trend that moves. You could take another communication course, or you could build the same muscles and enjoy the week you spend doing it.

tips_and_updates

A Resource Library  from day one 

keyboard_arrow_down

All ten session recordings, the 501 Ways to Use Humor list, Andrew's book Humor That Works, the 30 Benefits of Humor at Work, and his TEDx talk, all inside the app the moment you join.

auto_awesome

AI-powered coaching, 24/7

keyboard_arrow_down

Meeting prep, presentation punch-up, a tricky email, recovering from a joke that didn't land. Ask anytime and get advice built on Andrew's frameworks.

check_circle

Proof it worked, not vibes

keyboard_arrow_down

A research-backed assessment tracks your growth from start to finish, so you see the change in numbers (and the room).

Created by Andrew Tarvin

"I didn't change what I was saying. I changed how I said it, and people started reading my emails, showing up to my meetings, and doing what I asked. Same engineer. Better delivery."

Andrew Tarvin

Andrew Tarvin

World's first Humor Engineer. Top 1% TEDx speaker with 16M+ views, trusted by 750+ organizations including NASA, Microsoft, and the United Nations.

For as long as I can remember, I've lived at the unusual intersection of humor and high performance. I started as an engineer who loved spreadsheets as much as stand-up, and I learned the hard way that technical expertise alone doesn't make ideas land. Like a lot of capable professionals, I was told to "be more authentic" and "connect better" by people who never once explained how.

So I spent 15+ years decoding it. I've performed more than 1,000 stand-up and improv comedy shows, taped a Dry Bar Comedy special, delivered a TEDx talk on humor at work that's passed 16 million views, and brought this methodology to more than 750 organizations, including NASA, Microsoft, the FBI, and the United Nations. Most "business humor" experts can't be funny on a stage, and most comedians can't translate their craft into a Monday meeting. I've made a career of doing both.

The bridge is Humor Intelligence... a research-backed framework of 8 specific, learnable competencies (Appreciation, Consideration, Curation, Creation, Performance, Facilitation, Application, and Empowerment), organized into a 4-step development arc... UNLOCK, DISCOVER, MASTER, AMPLIFY. The methodology has been validated through a research partnership with the Social Research Lab at the University of Northern Colorado and refined across 10,000+ Humor Intelligence Assessment responses. Humor isn't entertainment. It's the fastest professional communication skill you can develop to be more memorable, more influential, and more effective... and to have a better time at work while you're at it.

App Trailer v1
guide-approachable
andrew-tarvin-tedx-tamu-01
Fifteen Seconds 05
hero-nsa

Follow Andrew's proven process & turn expertise into influence with humor

Unlock permission to use humor at work
Build the 8 Humor Intelligence competencies one week at a time
Read any room and know what fits
Turn expertise into stories and moments people remember
Discover your own sense of humor (you have one, I checked the data)
Create small, low-risk moments of levity
Use humor strategically to open strong, land points, and build trust
Draw humor out of groups and teams
Lead meetings people don't secretly want to escape
Make it a daily habit that outlasts the course
AI-powered practice

Personalized to where you want humor to work

AI is famously bad at humor. Ask most chatbots for a joke and you'll get something about a scarecrow out standing its field. Drewbot is the AI coach Andrew trained on the research-backed Humor Intelligence framework, so your daily practice connects to your goals, your work, and what you wrote yesterday.

lightbulb

Turn Data Into a Punchline: Humor for Analytical Thinkers

Personalized Lesson • 12 min
Learn how to transform technical insights into memorable, workplace-appropriate humor. This activity guides you through the Humor Intelligence framework, helping you unlock your authentic comedic voice and apply it to real work scenarios.
What to do
emoji_emotions
Permission to Play
2 min
chevron_right
search
Spot the Humor Opportunity
3 min
chevron_right
edit
Craft Your Punchline
4 min
chevron_right
work
Apply in a Real Meeting
3 min
chevron_right
How it works

Build Humor Intelligence in 4 simple steps

Start with your goals, then practice the skill in small, useful pieces.

Onboarding Quiz

What’s your main goal for using humor at work?

Make my expertise more memorable
Connect better with colleagues
Increase my influence in meetings
Feel more authentic and confident
1

Take the personalization quiz

Share where you want humor to work and what gets in your way, so the app can build your plan around your real professional life. It takes 2 minutes.

Your Plan

Week 1

Unlock Your Humor Mindset

Take the Humor Intelligence Assessment
Find out what kind of funny you are
Score your first real-world win
The funniest homework you'll ever get
Week 2Upcoming

Discovering Your Humor Style

2

Get your Humor Intelligence plan

Your plan is built from your answers, and Day 1 is ready the day you join. No start date to wait for, and no cohort to catch up to.

Today, November 4

6
V

Humor Mindset Shift

Lesson • 3 min

Humor Observation Journal

Journal • 4 min

Work Story Practice

Practice • 7 min

Humor Reflection

Reflection • 3 min

3

Learn from Andrew weekly, practice daily

Each week opens with Andrew's recorded lesson on that competency, about an hour, taught live to the founding cohort. The app turns each lesson into daily reps... the 30-Second Lesson, Today's Rep, and your Humor Notebook. Five to ten minutes a day, designed to survive a busy week.

Your Progress

Real-World Wins

52.3 wins

as of Oct 27

AugustNovember

Humor Reps

32.7 reps

as of Oct 27

AugustNovember
4

Prove it worked

Watch your Humor Reps, Real-World Wins, and Humor Confidence build, then re-take the Humor Intelligence Assessment in Week 10 and see in numbers what changed since Week 1.

It only takes 2 minutes to get started

starstarstarstarstar

Don't take my word for it.Take theirs.

Engineers, executives, and self-described serious people.

Quote
Andrew provides the most analytical and data-driven program on humor I have ever seen. Looking at it from an engineering mindset was absolutely new and mind blowing for me.
C
starstarstarstarstar
Craig C., Senior Operations Manager and comedian
VERIFIED CUSTOMER
Quote
Across two companies and over 10 years, I've hired Andrew Tarvin to run his humor trainings a number of times, and my colleagues consistently agree, it's one of the most fun and rewarding trainings you could participate in.
R
starstarstarstarstar
Renee F., Senior Product Manager
VERIFIED CUSTOMER
Quote
An interactive, systematic deep dive into the mechanics and usage of workplace humor. Quantifying my competency scores gave me a clear development roadmap showing which skills I should improve.
J
starstarstarstarstar
John S., Speaker and USMC combat vet
VERIFIED CUSTOMER
Quote
Humor Intelligence opens up an untapped world of humor within. Something you can develop, nurture, and play with to connect with others and yourself.
M
starstarstarstarstar
Marilyn F., Clinical Social Worker
VERIFIED CUSTOMER
Quote
The AI coach was so helpful and easy to use. It helped me make my orientation sessions a little more fun!
E
starstarstarstarstar
Erin H., founding member
VERIFIED CUSTOMER
Quote
I learned more from him in two hours than I did in a full semester of grad school. He's the real deal... funny, strategic, and useful in a way that most speakers aren't.
E
starstarstarstarstar
Emily C., Author and Coach
VERIFIED CUSTOMER
FAQ

Your questions, answered

Who is Humor Intelligence for?
expand_more
Is this a comedy class?
expand_more
How much time does it take?
expand_more
How does the 10-week journey work?
expand_more
How personalized is the app?
expand_more
What happens after the 10 weeks?
expand_more
Ready to practice?

Start building the skill of humor at work

Day 1 is ready the moment you join. Ten weeks of lessons from Andrew and a coach in your pocket that tells you the truth, all in ten minutes a day.