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For over 30 years leadership and culture coach, serial entrepreneur, and New York Times bestselling author Christine Comaford has helped leaders navigate growth and change. She specializes in applied neuroscience, which helps her clients achieve tremendous results in record time. An entrepreneur, she built and sold five companies with an average ROI of 700%, and she was a software engineer in the early days of Microsoft and Apple. Christine Comaford is a human behavior expert, a leadership columnist for Forbes.com, and the New York Times bestselling author of Power Your Tribe, SmartTribes and Rules for Renegades.

Christine Comaford is sought after for providing proven strategies to shift executive behavior to create more positive outcomes, enroll and align teams in times of change, profoundly increase sales, product offerings, and company value. Her coaching, consulting and strategies have created hundreds of billions of dollars in new revenue and company value for her clients. The potent neuroscience techniques she teaches are easy to learn and immediately applicable to help leaders see into their blind spots, expand their vision, and more effectively influence outcomes.

Bill Gates calls her “super high bandwidth.”

Bill Clinton has thanked her for “fostering American entrepreneurship.”

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The Neuroscience of Leadership with Christine Comaford (1 of 8)

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INFLUENCE ANY OUTCOME

Using Neuroscience to Sell Better, Lead Better, Market Better

Now more than ever leaders need to be able to influence outcomes. Good intentions are rarely assumed, people are on the lookout for manipulative tactics, and even subtle persuasion efforts are suspect. Influence is no longer about doing something to someone to get what you want. Real influence is about forging deep connections quickly, stepping into someone’s world authentically, and striving for consistent win/win outcomes.

In this session you’ll learn potent neuroscience techniques for getting buy-in, agreement and even enduring loyalty from anyone. Results may include learning how to increase team member emotional engagement, loyalty, and ownership-focus; close sales faster; and improve your relationship with your children and spouse!

First you’ll explore the subconscious mind, and how each human being experiences the world. Then you’ll learn how to apply these simple and highly effective techniques to achieve specific business and personal life outcomes.

GUARANTEE GROWTH

Leverage Neuroscience to Get Predictable Revenue, Passionate Teams, Profitable Growth

Are you consistently growing revenues and profits each year?

Are your team members highly efficient, energized and emotionally engaged?

Are your sales people able to accurately predict their performance?

In today’s uncertain economic climate you need the latest tools to optimize your growth and employees in order for profits to soar. Chances are good you’re growing in one of these areas but not all three at the same time… what if you could?

In this value-packed program you’ll learn key neuroscience techniques that have enabled 50 of the fastest-growing North American companies plus tech titans Google, Apple, Microsoft, Oracle and others to get year-over-year profitable growth and have lean peak performing teams. You’ll leave this program with techniques you can immediately apply to improve the outcome of your next quarter.

INFLUENCE ANY OUTCOME

Using Neuroscience to Sell Better, Lead Better, Market Better

Now more than ever leaders need to be able to influence outcomes. Good intentions are rarely assumed, people are on the lookout for manipulative tactics, and even subtle persuasion efforts are suspect. Influence is no longer about doing something to someone to get what you want. Real influence is about forging deep connections quickly, stepping into someone’s world authentically, and striving for consistent win/win outcomes.

In this session you’ll learn potent neuroscience techniques for getting buy-in, agreement and even enduring loyalty from anyone. Results may include learning how to increase team member emotional engagement, loyalty, and ownership-focus; close sales faster; and improve your relationship with your children and spouse!

First you’ll explore the subconscious mind, and how each human being experiences the world. Then you’ll learn how to apply these simple and highly effective techniques to achieve specific business and personal life outcomes.

MAKE YOUR TEAM SMARTER OVERNIGHT

The Neuroscience of Compelling Leadership

How would your business grow if you could become smarter overnight?

What would the impact be if you could tap into more parts of your brain to increase innovation, creativity, emotional engagement, vision, feelings of safety, belonging, and mattering?

And what would the impact be if you could guide your entire company to this state too?

Today’s leaders need to be more connected to a deeper ability to communicate & influence others to cause higher levels of accountability and productivity on their teams.

You will explore a model of leadership that takes into account both the dynamics of teams and the individual leader in a company. Through interactive exercises each participant will be able to actually experience a shift in their relationship to knowing where leadership is “out”, and how to put it back “in” in a new way. The presentation will offer a cutting edge toolkit for leadership problem diagnosis and resolution, and human performance optimization.

QUOTA BUSTERS

Inside The Brain Of Your Buyer

Do you want predictable high margin revenue?

Are you generating high quality leads on a regular basis and quickly converting them to clients?

Do you have a path to convert those clients into repeat clients and vibrant referral sources?

Do you want a proven sales and marketing process and plan to achieve these key results?

In this highly interactive training, we explore aspects of neuroscience that can be applied to sales with remarkable results.

Through interactive exercises each participant will be able to actually experience a shift in their relationship to prospecting, marketing, lead generation and cultivation, and client care. The brave new world of sales and marketing is more emotional, more human, more connected than ever before. By delving into the reward network of the brain we learn how to light it up, and how to bring profound positive experiences to our prospects, customers, and even our teams. The presentation will offer a cutting edge toolkit for sales and marketing problem diagnosis and resolution, and human performance optimization.

Testimonials

Our members rely on us to provide them with leading-edge speakers and break-through ideas. Christine keynoted our annual CEO conference and got a standing ovation. Need I say more? Nope.
– Michael Sansolo, Senior Vice President, Food Marketing Institute
Christine’s keynote at our annual client conference was a smashing success! 300 Human Resources professionals rated her program as one of our best ever—it was rich in practical techniques, profound insights, and plenty of humor (much appreciated after lunch!). Christine made neuroscience and the brain approachable, and our clients were thrilled to learn how easy and yet impactful her tools are. We’ll certainly have Christine again.
– Karl E. Hansen, President and CEO, The Vita Companies
Four months into working with Christine we’ve increased our revenue numbers for the year by over 30%.  With Christine’s guidance and support our business is on a growth trajectory I never would have imagined!
– Betty Bodenweiser, CEO, Foundation for Learning

Booksby Christine Comaford

Power Your Tribe: Create Resilient Teams in Turbulent Times

SmartTribes: How Teams Become Brilliant Together

Rules for Renegades: How to Make More Money, Rock Your Career, and Revel in Your Individuality

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