She’ll be here all week: Tampa exec motivates through laughter

The parallels between comedy and leadership, says Kerry Szymanski, who handles both with aplomb, stretch wide.

  • By Mark Gordon
  • | 5:00 a.m. July 7, 2022
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Kerry Szymanski has two jobs: director of the Tampa Bay Women’s Business Centre at the Helen Gordon Davis Center for Women and stand-up comic. (Photo by Mark Wemple)
Kerry Szymanski has two jobs: director of the Tampa Bay Women’s Business Centre at the Helen Gordon Davis Center for Women and stand-up comic. (Photo by Mark Wemple)
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In a world full of statistics, data and measurements, here’s one that, on the surface, might not seem too serious: babies laugh 400 times a day while adults over 35 laugh 15 times a day.

 

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