Kristin Arnold

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Kristin J. Arnold, MBA, CMC, CPF, CSP is passionate about making your meetings more engaging, interactive and collaborative. As a high stakes meeting facilitator, trainer and keynote speaker, Kristin has worked with thousands of senior executives, project managers and team leaders in Canada and US, challenging their traditional notions about teamwork. She is known for her concrete approach to teamwork and a treasure trove of practical tools and techniques her clients can apply immediately to see substantive, positive results.

Kristin is on the Executive Development Faculty in the Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto and has achieved the highest designation in each of her core competencies: 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 International Association for Facilitators Handbook of Facilitation.

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 of the National Speakers Association of the United States and will be the National President in 2010. She also served as President of the Downtown Hampton Development Partnership, a nonprofit business organization attributed to turning Downtown Hampton VA from a quaint, sleepy town to a thriving entertainment, retail and residential center.

Kristin is one of the first female graduates of the United States Coast Guard Academy and the first woman stationed on-board USCGC Buttonwood. (Over a martini, she can tell you some interesting stories about being "the first.") She parlayed her understanding of teams and teamwork with an MBA in Marketing Strategy into a specialized management consulting firm focused on building extraordinary teams in the workplace. Kristin roles up all this experience in working with teams and shares key insights that will engage and resonate with the meeting theme and your audiences

Clients Comments

"I thought you did a masterful job last week under very difficult conditions. You earned every penny and then some."
- NASA Langley Research Center

"The approach and techniques you used added a new twist to our traditional meeting format. I think you have set new standards and expectations for our future get-togethers."
- TQM Director, Hershey Foods Corporation

"Kristin Arnold is the best I've ever seen on the subject of 'effective teams' at all levels, from senior execs to problem solving teams. She is in great demand and I highly recommend her if you ever need some outside help on directions for team effectiveness." - Steve Holcomb, Newport News Shipbuilding

"The words 'dynamic', 'masterful' and 'extraordinary' fit you perfectly." ."
-Vice President, Marathon Oil Company