Norm Laviolette

As co-founder, and CEO of Improv Asylum, IA innovation, Laugh Boston and Asylum Gaming and E Sports (A.G.E.). Norm brings the experience of building companies from the ground up into multi-million dollar businesses. Norm understands first hand why culture is integral to long term success and has built a team that exemplifies why communicating, listening and trusting are so important. Norm is on a never-ending quest toward the continued development and expansion of Improv Asylum’s theatrical and IA Innovation’s business divisions and leads Improv Asylum and IA Innovation's strategic business and artistic vision locally, nationally and globally.

Norm’s first book, “The Art of Making Sh!t Up” was released in May of 2019 and tells the story of how the skill sets of improv has positively impacted businesses, organizations and lives, including his!