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Topic:The Humor Formula
Speaker: Katie Munoz
PMI Category: Strategic / PDU  1

Presenter Biography

Katie Munoz is known as a funny person, but she wasn’t born that way. She was born quiet, serious, and clumsy, which left her endlessly embarrassed. As a young adult, she finally figured out how to use humor as self-defense (i.e. If you laugh at yourself first, nobody else can laugh at you.) She is living proof that humor can be learned, even by a person who is naturally serious.

In Toastmasters, she expanded her speaking skills and entered her first humorous speech contest in 1996, with a speech titled, “Out of the Closet,” where she came out of the closet as a math nerd. That speech carried her all the way to the regional competition in Eugene, Oregon. People have been gifting her with slide rules ever since.

The next year, she began teaching “How of Humor” workshops at conferences and conventions, while making ample use of her humor and public speaking skills as a program manager in the software industry.

Now she has retired from software and is on a full-time mission to share the skills of public speaking and positive humor through her company, Serious to Hilarious. She offers workshop, webinars, and coaching. Check out what’s on offer at her website:  www.serioustohilarious.com .

Event Description: 

As a project manager, you need to communicate with your team, your boss and the shareholders; and you know that your public speaking skills are constantly in use. Imagine how much more effective you could be if you knew a dependable formula to make your messages memorable and even funny.

In the Humor Formula Workshop, you will learn: 

           How to create original humor appropriate to your topic,
           The easiest place to find relevant comedic material,
           The 5 most common humor mistakes and how to avoid them, and
           The serious person’s humor advantage.
Yes, serious people can master humor, with no personality transplant required.