Kristin Arnold

In a world of incredible change and chaos, where decisions are made in the blink of an eye, have you ever made a half-baked decision? For whatever reason, you just didn’t think it through. The result? Less than stellar outcomes.

You and your people don’t have hours to agonize over every decision, (nor would you want to…) but you can get smarter about it!

In this highly interactive and thought-provoking presentation, you will be able to:

• Identify 5 common traps that cause poor or faulty reasoning
• Discover simple techniques to prevent yourself from falling into these traps
• Learn an easy, 4-step process that will allow you and your teams to be brilliant!

Let’s face it. We’re living in a commoditized world. And if you aren’t innovating, you’re dying.

But it’s gotta be more than “new and improved,” slapping a new label on a new package of your tried-and-true product.

You’re looking for innovation…and it’s in short supply!

In this big brainstorming, barnstorming barrel of a good time, we’ll:

• Dig through Drucker’s 7 sources of innovation
• Show you how gosh darn easy it is to come up with new ideas
• Sift through the possibilities to find real gold in them there hills!
• Brainstorm in real time potential innovations

Gone are the days when the leader can simply tell their people what to do. Rather, the leadership role has evolved into being more of a facilitative coach, responding to the needs of a specific person and situation in order to achieve the desired performance.

In this fun, upbeat and interactive session, you will learn how to coach your team members to be truly empowered – with minimal intervention from you! You’ll increase the quality and quantity of conversations you have with your employees, accelerate their development, and dramatically improve their performance.

You’ll walk away being able to:

• Diagnose the development levels of your team members and choose the appropriate coaching style
• Discover your own “default” coaching style
• Adapt to the changing needs of your team members

Teamwork is not a natural talent – and no two teams are alike.  That’s why Kristin’s approach is completely customized to take your team to the next level:

• Propel performance with quick tips and ideas to shift team expectations and behavior.
• Help explain the team dynamic with relevant models.
• Increase the team toolbox – just the right thing to do at the right time!

People talk about how important “culture” is to an organization, but what exactly is “culture”?  More importantly, how can we, as leaders, intentionally shape the organization into a much more productive and engaging workplace?  In this highly interactive and engaging session, team management expert Kristin Arnold shares real-time, practical tools, techniques and best practices for leaders, managers and employees to access, enhance and magnify your organization’s culture.

• Define “culture” in the context of your organization and/or industry.
• Understand seven key elements that contribute to your current organizational culture.
• Discover specific steps/techniques/tools to help shape the company culture.

You just budgeted a boatload of bucks for the upcoming conference. And what do you have to show for it? Smiley faces? Comments about the tepid coffee?

Find out what your attendees are really going to take away and do back in the workplace.

In this unique and highly interactive session, the participants will:

• Share their “keepers” – key takeaways and best practices
• Develop mastermind partnerships and accountabilities
• Be energized and motivated to implement their ideas
• Be excited about coming back to the next conference!

And… you’ll be able to extend the learning by following up on the actions that matter most!

Kristin is adept at making ordinary panel presentations powerful through a lively, engaging, audience-centered conversation.  As a thought leader in making panels more powerful onsite and online, she uses her facilitation skills and process techniques to make your panel session into a robust, interesting and lively discussion.  She ensures there is audience/panel participation, the information  is useful and the session starts and stops on time.

Kristin knows her panel moderator role is to be the producer/director of your conference panel presentation – and not the star of the program.  Your panel presenters and participants are the stars and Kristin makes them look like heroes!

With Kristin as your onsite or virtual Emcee, you can be assured that your business event will flow smoothly and on time. She’s the glue that holds it all together in a gracious and elegant way.

Kristin quickly connects with the group with her warm, engaging style. She reinforces the conference theme and “connects the dots” between mainstage speakers and event activities. She involves the audience without making them do silly teambuilding, ra-ra, turn to your neighbor activities. She’s “refreshingly candid,” building conversations with the audience about key issues. She’s known to be spontaneous, witty, and gets the audience to crack a few smiles and chuckles – even with left-brained scientists and engineers!

Caveat: While Kristin is fun, engaging, and perfect for business meetings, she is NOT a comedienne or entertainer – so if that’s what you are looking for, we can refer you to a colleague!