Didi Hopkins trained as actress and director. She is a leading expert and practitioner of commedia dell'arte, the roots of European theater, and worked on the National Theatre's London and Broadway hit, One Man Two Guvnors. For fifteen years she has been taking theater skills into businesses across the globe to help evolve and develop mature, responsible, and rounded captains of industry. Didi designs, develops and delivers programs for global consulting and finance companies, runs a 1-1 coaching practice in London and Europe, and works on programs at INSEAD, Saïd, Cranfield, HEC and IMD business schools.