Executive Food Fights can erupt for nothing to do with your presentation. Without direct power or authority over the people in the meeting, your role is to listen, attempt to refocus the group, and failing that, enlist your sponsor’s help. Here you’ll see Brent Bloom, Senior Director, KLA-Tencor, deal with people yelling at each other about issues completely unrelated to his presentation. Arguments erupted about the money being spent on training and the assertion that training can never be a profit center. Finally, Brent appealed to his sponsor for help.