Kristin Arnold

Go from Boring to Bravo with a High Stakes Meeting Facilitator & Mainstage Conversationalist

Kristin J. Arnold creates collaborative conversations at the intersection of a presentation and facilitation.  Regardless of the size of group, large or small, Kristin has a unique ability to engage and inspire audiences to take action.As a high stakes meeting facilitator, teamwork trainer and keynote speaker, Kristin has worked with thousands of senior executives, project managers and team leaders in North America, challenging their traditional notions about teamwork.  With over two decades of experience facilitating and training teams in the work place, she has worked with over a hundred different organizations, three hundred different teams, and presented to over a half a million people around the world.

Her most requested programs include:

• Keynote/Program: Bring on the Bravo! 
• Endnote/Program: So What? Now What? A Call To Action (ideal to close the event and demonstrate meeting ROI)
• Keynote/Program: Teamwork & Collaboration - Without the Script
• Keynote/Program: Team Player or Spectator: Surefire Strategies to Get Everyone in the Game
• Keynote/Program: The Extraordinary Team: Eight Hallmarks of a High Performing Team
• Program: The Birds: Creating Communications Connections
• Program: Boring to Bravo: Use the Skills of a Professional Facilitator to Engage your Audiences, Clients, and Co-Workers

As one of the first female graduates of the United States Coast Guard Academy and the first woman stationed onboard a USCG Cutter, Kristin learned early on about working with others.  In 1990, she became one of the first USCG facilitators – and made every mistake one could!  Frustrated, she avidly research this nascent skill called “facilitation” and found herself training a cadre of internal facilitators.  By 1992, companies were asking her to teach their people how to facilitate and lead teams!  Since then, she has been sharing her concrete approach to teambuilding with a treasure trove of practical concepts, tools and techniques her clients can apply immediately to see positive, substantive results. 

Kristin’s passion for teams is reflected in her writing, speaking, facilitation and consulting.  She is the author of several books in the Extraordinary Team Series (Team Basics, Email Basics and Team Energizers) as well as a newspaper columnist and contributing author to myriad other team-based books such as The IAF Handbook of Group Facilitation. Her latest book, Boring to Bravo: Proven Presentation Techniques to Engage, Involve, and Inspire Your Audiences to Action was published in August, 2011.

Featured in numerous publications such as Harvard Business Update, USA Today, Selling Power, Kristin knows what it takes to lead, facilitate and participate on high performing teams.  She currently serves on the National Board of Directors for the National Speakers Association of the United States and was the National President in 2010-2011.  She also served as President of the Downtown Hampton (Virginia) Development Partnership (2001-2), a nonprofit business organization attributed to turning Downtown Hampton from a quaint, sleepy town to a thriving entertainment, retail and residential center.  She retired from the USCG Reserves in 2002 as a Lieutenant Commander.Kristin is on the Executive Development Faculty in the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto, specializing in Leadership Through Teambuilding.Kristin has achieved three of the highest designations available within each of her core competencies:

• Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) from the National Speakers Association (2002) 
• Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF) from the International Association of Facilitators (2002)
• Certified Management Consultant (CMC) from the Institute of Management Consultants (2002)

She is also certified to administer several assessment tools that assist people in determining their thinking styles, personality preferences and management effectiveness  (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®, Kolbe™, Human Synergistics’ Group Styles Inventory™ and Organizational Culture® Inventory).When Kristin is not working with teams of people, she hangs out with her husband in Scottsdale, Arizona and Prince Edward Island, Canada.

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