No More Stage Fright

Kristin Arnold, a nationally known speaker who has built a business that helps high-powered executives run more efficient meetings, swears she isn't funny.
Witty, maybe. But funny — not so much.

Still, Arnold has been to enough corporate conferences and heard enough speeches and policy lectures over the last decade to know dead-on what isn't funny.

Like the time she worked with a client, a chief executive who excitedly told her about the speech he was about to give. It was going to be a funny, engaging and interactive presentation to a group of chief financial officers about the ins and outs of the job.