"We’re a high performance service team in a very complex business with very demanding customers. We’ve been ‘hard at it’ for 4 years since the last merger, tasked with delivering huge savings and other value contributions to the business year on year. We also reduced our headcount significantly during the same time. Get the picture? A lot of committed, but tired professionals. Christine Comaford spent 90 minutes with our team talking about her life experiences and how we could use her learnings to re-energize, beat bureaucracy and put excitement back into the job. We’re a tough group … but it was transformational. She’s the best!"
VP Procurement, Global Systems and Operations
Fortune 500 Pharmaceutical Company
“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 same more? Nope.”
Senior Vice President
Consumer Products Trade Association
“I was looking for a straight-shooter to tell me if one of my investments was a dog. This venture wanted me to invest another $10 million. Christine came in, assessed the team, product and prospects, and recommended I cease investment. I did. Nine months later the company went under. She saved me the $10 million and a lot of heartache. I only wish I’d met her sooner.”
Retired Fortune 500 Media CEO and investor
“Our board of directors was entirely dysfunctional. As Chairman, everyone was looking to me to fix it. I’d seen Christine on CNN and MSNBC and thought I’d give her a shot. She helped us get past our issues and focus on what matters: putting our differences aside and building the company.”
Retired Fortune 500 Technology CEO and Chairman of the Board
“Christine showed our team how to turn perceived liabilities into assets. As a small business we were stuck and needed to break out of our stagnant revenue level. She helped us see innovation and growth in a whole new way. Now we relish the fact that we’re the scrappy underdog, and we use it to our advantage.”
CEO, Inc. 500 Office Products company
“When the Oval Office says ‘jump!’ the only question is ‘how high?’ Christine helped us develop and launch our intranet strategy, which was super aggressive for standard-pace government workers. She got everyone past the fear of change and into the excitement of it – and now Americans have access to far more government data via self-serve web sites. Christine’s contribution to creating a government that works better and costs less was critical.”
Technology Aide
National Performance Review, Clinton Administration
“Christine was brought in to light a fire under our client services team so they could face the battles ahead with renewed gusto. She did just that, and a whole lot more. Now we rely on her for a shot in the arm when teams across our divisions are dragging.”
EVP, Human Resources
Fortune 500 Financial Services Company
"Christine Comaford has lived an amazing life, which she writes about with tremendous energy and panache. When she reads in public, Christine is very conscientious about giving a power performance. She was a big hit when she read at my San Francisco reading series InsideStoryTime."
James Warner
Curator, InsideStoryTime
Voted #1 New Reading Series 2006 by SF WEEKLY
"Great stories and a real knack for telling them—on the page and in person, Christine Comaford is thoroughly entertaining."
Linda Watanabe McFerrin
Author of Hand of Buddha and Namako: Sea Cucumber
Founder of Left Coast Writers
"From the very first line of each story Christine Comaford tells I am excited and completely engrossed in the tale she so expertly weaves. We all like to be taken into the lives of fascinating people. That is what Christine does when she performs at my Gallery. She is a huge success with our audience."
Jessel Miller
Owner, Jessel Gallery and Curator, Jammin' with Jessel
www.jesselgallery.com
"Christine's work gets you in the gut and the funny bone. Her down-to-earth prose will take you out of this world."
Allison Landa
Writer/Performer
"Christine's stories and spirited readings are entertaining, provocative, and delightful!"
Wendy Mitchell
Author of Falling into Manholes (2007)