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Christine has delivered more than 400 speeches in 14 countries on four continents. Clients include IT management and software developer conferences sponsored by Microsoft, Intel, Oracle, AT&T, Palm, Symantec, Information Builders, Business Objects, Hyperion and Computer Associates. She has addressed most branches of the US government such as the US Transportation Department and financial institutions including PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Christine has delivered keynotes to universities and business schools including Harvard Business School, Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Stanford Graduate School of Business, UCB Haas School of Business, UCLA Anderson School of Business. She has also addressed many trade associations, among them FMI, GMA, CAMP, IAFIS and more.

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Following are descriptions of Christine’s most popular presentations:

The Neuroscience of Compelling Leadership

From her work with hundreds of successful entrepreneurs, top executive teams and political leaders, Christine takes the leadership model and turns it on its head. Future leaders will need to be more connected to a deeper ability to communicate & influence others to cause higher levels of accountability and productivity on their teams.

Through interactive exercises each participant will actually experience a shift in their relationship to leadership. Rarely do leaders have a great diagnostic tool to know exactly when leadership falls off, how to quickly diagnose the leadership problem, and then how to adjust behavior and influence in order to solve the challenges they have.

Christine will offer a cutting edge framework for leadership problem diagnosis, plus help each participant understand how to apply this tool to deepen their own journey as leaders. Key issues include:

• How we use our attention, presence and intention (or lack of), and the impact that has on our company and people
• What is accountability really, and how can we cause an increase in intrinsic motivation
• The power of clarity in communication, influence and trust
• How to quickly shift “energetic posturing” as a leader to discover other powerful avenues of relatedness to our colleagues, direct reports and employees
• Key components to designing a sustainable interaction, company and/or individual

The future of leadership will look like a distant cousin of today’s models, thoughts and actions, as the leaders of today continue to journey inward for greater tools of communication, influence, energy, vision, presentation and problem solving skills.

Rethink Your Strategy to Anticipate Change

Why is it so tricky to anticipate change?

Two reasons: leaders need to ask new questions and create a resilient culture. For over 30 years Christine Comaford has helped hundreds of CEOs, Board members, and political leaders create highly resilient teams.

Resilient teams are more accountable, more engaged and loyal, consistently deliver high value results, and foster leadership in others. They take intelligent risks, innovate better, and when faced with crisis they bounce back faster and farther.

In this pragmatic and hands-on session Christine will share her playbook.

You’ll learn:

• Three proven ways to increase your own resilience
• The two most effective techniques to increase team member resilience
• Four tools to ensure resilience remains and grows
• Resilience Rx: The top 5 “Culture Crushers” and how to prevent and cure them

Influence Any Outcome: How to Use Neuroscience to Sell Better, Lead Better, Market Better

To profoundly influence both outcomes and behavior today’s leaders must learn to disappear. Not to disappear physically, but to disappear into the sales prospect, recipient of a marketing message, client, or team member. Disappearing is the only way to ensure profound rapport, which leads to influencing outcomes for the betterment of both parties.

So how do we do disappear?

In this dynamic, surprising, and highly interactive session Christine will show you how you and all the people you encounter see the world. Using breakthrough and yet practical research in human behavior, motivation and influence, you’ll learn how to apply simple and highly effective techniques to get the outcomes you desire.

You’ll learn:

• The 6 most potent meta programs that define a human being’s world
• How to communicate to someone in their exact meta programs to influence, connect, and build deep trust
• How you are easily predictable as a leader, and how to change that in order to get greater performance from your team
• Specific and highly successful applications of this technology in Human Resources, Sales, Marketing, Board Management scenarios

This session will significantly enhance your experience and tool kit as a leader, friend, parent, life partner. Be prepared to leave with a quantum shift experience.

Create The Culture of Your Dreams–Now!

When challenged, human beings generally go to one of three places:

1. they get stuck,
2. they solve problems that don’t exist,
3. they focus on the wrong problem—which is low leverage and doesn’t move the needle.

Your culture fosters these three places, and you lose thousands of productive and emotionally engaging hours each year as a result.

Come raise your ability as a thought leader by learning the latest neuroscience techniques to challenge your frameworks of reality and thinking.  We’ll start by defining your personal framework, then move through the logical levels of change, and gradually apply tools to understand what’s behind your beliefs and identity and shift them to enable you to get what you want, when you want in your life and business.

We’ll guide you through:

• The logical levels of change every human being and organization experiences—from trivial to soul-shaking
• A process to get extreme clarity on your current culture and the culture you want to create
• Diagnostic tools to “cure” a challenging culture
• Case studies of significant culture and relationship shifts using these tools

When you learn how to find the highest leverage point in problem solving and learn how to permanently shift your reality you can specifically and intentionally design your business and life…  with remarkable results.

Build Your Business to Sell for Millions in 5 Years or Less

Are you slaving away, building a business with no plan or process or path to one day cash out? Why? Two reasons:

1. You’re so busy running your business you don’t have time to plan your exit, and
2. You’ve likely not built a business that you’ve sold for many millions, or if you have, you’ve likely not done it 5 times yourself and helped others do it 50 times. In this program you’ll learn the proven 6 factor formula to build YOUR business to sell in 5 years or less for multiple millions.

You’ll learn specific strategies and tactics you’ll apply immediately to:

• Design your business to be sold for the amount you want, on the terms you want, at the time you want
• Get and keep massive momentum so your company grows quickly yet sanely, increasing its value to acquirers on a monthly basis
• Develop a business model that generates compelling and reliable revenue to make your company a high value cash machine
• Create a high performance team that consistently delivers results to boost your company’s value
• Secure influential advisors and alliances who’ll raise your profile with potential acquirers and significantly increase your company’s credibility
• Ultimately, to make your company irresistible to potential acquirers.

To build your business to sell you’ll need people, money, and a killer business model. This behind-the-scenes session will give you the exact process to follow to build your multi-million dollar Build to Sell empire.

Engaged, Accountable, Inspired

We all want to be on a team where the members act like owners, take performance personally, and are high-energy and ready to rock. But how do we build, maintain, extend our dream team? In today’s bottom-line business world, results are what it’s all about. And consistent exceptional results require a dream team. In this program you’ll learn how to earn the most important credential you’ll ever need: your GSD (Get Stuff Done). You’ll leave this program with your own honorary GSD, and knowledge of:

• The 10 steps to getting, and staying, super motivated
• 5 ways to make accountability easy–and fun
• The “Fab Four” and why you must use them
• 3 ways to fast forward your career and personal goals
• Managing up, down, across to foster a highly engaged culture

The Inner Entrepreneur: How To Think, Work, Thrive Like an Entrepreneur

This program is tailored to the needs of corporate clients who seek to foster the spirit of entrepreneurship within a worldwide multi-site organization. Discover the key attitudes and actions that result in embracing one’s “inner entrepreneur”. Practical, prescriptive tips include:

• Ownership: how to foster it, show it, grow it
• Innovation: how to start it, how to sustain it, when to ask permission, and when to ask for forgiveness.
• Risk-shifting: shifting from a risk-averse to a risk-accepting culture
• Superior client-service: how to make and keep ecstatic customers

Boardroom Ninja

Your board can be your best team of allies, or your worst nightmare. It’s your choice. Peak-performing CEOs know the importance of managing their boards, delivering which information and what time on what terms. Most board members truly want to help you build a solid and sustainable company—the trouble is many CEOs don’t help them do that. In this session you’ll learn how to tell the good news, how to foreshadow the bad news, how to build confidence, trust and rapport. You’ll learn:

• The 3 things to ALWAYS tell your board
• The 3 things to NEVER tell your board
• 7 ways to build board confidence, trust, alliances—even with challenging personalities
• Board meetings: preparation, meeting, management
• 4 essential ways to boost your credibility and build rapport with board members and other power players

Contact us for a keynote customized to your organization’s specific objectives.

Training

Please contact us for details on and investment in the following training:

• Leadership Effectiveness
• Company Effectiveness
• Influencing Outcomes and Others
• Optimal Accountability, Communication and Execution
• Problem to Outcome
• The Neuroscience of Sales
• Creating a Vibrant High-Performing Culture