Most leaders are trained on content, not delivery. Dr. Sadhna Bokhiria interviewed 600+ stand-up comedians to find out what the best performers do that executives don't — and it starts with reading the room.

In the Season 2 premiere of The Reflective Professional Podcast, Chris Cahill sits down with Dr. Sadhna Bokhiria, President and CEO of KIRIA Advisory Partners, a gelotologist (a researcher who studies laughter), TEDx speaker, and Forbes Business Council contributor. Sadhna's research began at the University of Arizona Cancer Center, studying how laughter affects survivorship in cancer patients, and evolved into a second dissertation on the comedians themselves — what drives them, how they read an audience in real time, and how they recover when a set bombs.

The conversation maps those findings directly onto corporate leadership: why scanning for the person who isn't laughing beats playing to your supporters, how to use humor as a clarity tool rather than a deflection, the difference between vulnerability and oversharing, and what to do in the 10 seconds after a presentation goes sideways.

Why do smart, accomplished professionals struggle to tell a good story about their own work? To close out Season 1, Chris Cahill sits down with Bill Baker — storytelling trainer to Coca-Cola, Cisco, Dell, and Johns Hopkins — to break down what separates a real story from a report of events, and why that distinction matters for your career.