Public speaking, speaking in front of a camera, and executive presence under pressure — Lynn Smith has coached all of it. A national news anchor for 15 years at TODAY, NBC News, MSNBC, and CNN Headline News, TEDx speaker, Forbes Coaches Council member, and the media coach USA Today named "The CEO Whisperer," Lynn now trains CEOs at billion-dollar companies to own the room.
Through Lynn Smith Media & Communications, she and her team have prepared hundreds of leaders for TEDx talks, earnings calls, boardroom pitches, and live PR crises. She coaches for the Ragan Communications Leadership Council, teaches at Electives.io, and wrote the award-winning children's book Just Keep Going.
In this episode of The Money Signal, Lynn breaks down the "quadrant of qualms" — the four fears underneath nearly every executive she meets. Most media training treats the symptoms and wonders why nothing changes.
We get into what really happens in the room during earnings prep, the mistake comms teams make handing a CEO every message instead of a few, and her four-step crisis playbook. She unpacks why Astronomer's silence became the story, why McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski turned a viral burger moment into a Wall Street Journal profile — with Wendy's and Burger King joining in — and what BlackRock and Poppi prove about executives on social media.
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Tsvetta Kaleynska — Consumer Data & Social Listening Expert
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Peter Tuchman - NYSE Floor Trader, Einstein of Wall Street
Tsvetta Kaleynska — Consumer Data & Social Listening Expert
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