Coach, facilitator, and improv practitioner.
Meet Mallory Penney
Mallory Penney helps leaders and teams navigate the human side of leadership.
For more than a decade, she has worked with professionals across industries to strengthen communication, leadership presence, emotional intelligence, and team connection. Her clients range from emerging leaders figuring out how they want to lead to senior executives navigating complex decisions and organizational change.
What connects all of her work is a simple belief. Leadership is built through practice, self awareness, and relationships.
A practical approach to leadership development
Mallory’s work is grounded in real-world application. Instead of relying on lectures or one way training, she creates experiences where people actively practice new ways of communicating, leading, and collaborating.
Her approach combines coaching, facilitation, and experiential learning to help people build skills they can actually use in their day to day work.
Every engagement is customized to the team, the leaders, and the challenges they are facing.
Improv
Improv is a form of experiential learning that uses exercises and frameworks to help people strengthen leadership and communication skills.
It gives people a chance to practice responding in real-time without overthinking or relying on scripts.
The work helps teams and leaders become more adaptable, more collaborative, and more comfortable navigating uncertainty.
Clients often walk away with stronger listening skills, more confidence in high-pressure situations, and a greater ability to connect with the people around them.
And yes, it’s often fun, too.
What Improv Actually Means
Experience
Mallory has facilitated workshops and coached leaders around the world in both virtual and in person environments.
Her experience includes work with organizations in healthcare, life sciences, technology, financial services, retail, engineering, education, and media.
Whether she is coaching one leader or facilitating a room full of people, her focus stays the same. Helping people communicate better, lead more intentionally, and work together more effectively.
Leadership starts with how we show up
The way people lead affects every conversation, every team, and every culture they are part of.
Leadership Unscripted helps people become more aware of how they show up so they can show up with greater clarity, confidence, and connection.