Kenny Raskin

Kenny Raskin has been a Senior Consultant with The Ariel Group since 1998. He has facilitated over 450 executive training workshops across the globe for such companies as Coca Cola, Merrill Lynch, Deloitte and Touche, General Electric, American Express, HBO, Turner Broadcasting and Capital One. He has also taught leadership programs as part of Executive Education programs at Columbia, Northwestern, Duke, and Harvard Business School.

Kenny has been an accomplished actor and teacher of acting and physical comedy for more than 15 years, serving on the faculties at Boston University, Emerson College, New York University, and Emory University. He is also a much sought after teacher at acting and improvisation retreats around the country.

Kenny's work as an actor has been prolific, having appeared in numerous plays and musicals, eleven films and countless television and radio commercials, corporate and industrial training films, and live shows. He made a name for himself as one of the leading physical comedy performers in the United States, starring as the lead clown, Monsieur Everyman, in Cirque du Soleil’s critically acclaimed production of Nouvelle Experience. He subsequently originated the role of Gaston's comic sidekick, Lefou, in Disney’s musical Beauty and the Beast, a role that he performed for two and a half years.

Kenny holds a degree in American studies from Brandeis University.