[alexqgb]

Actually, introverts can be exceptionally comfortable on stage since they're not there to have conversations. This is often especially true of musicians, who can be very shy and retiring in daily life, and totally at ease in a spotlight with tens of thousands hanging on every note.

If you're bad at presentations, it's not because you're an introvert. It's because you don't know what you're doing. Holding a stage, as any well-practiced performer will tell you, takes attention, skill, and work. Talent helps, but that just makes it easier to develop what's essential: skill.

You wouldn't pay to hear a performer practice scales. Nor (generally speaking) would you pay to hear a performer who hasn't practiced scales. But disagreement about the cause of bad presentations aside, I fully agree; leading (as opposed to managing) an organization demands the ability to tell a story that can bring together a broad range of people and interests to make the thing work as a whole. And that's a skill so important it borders on an art.