An Interview with Christine Comaford

New York Times bestselling author Christine Comaford is a specialist in Corporate Strategy, Inflection Point Navigation and Effective Implementation, Execution and Behavioral Alignment among top executives, teams and emerging leaders. Her Coaching, Consulting and Strategies have guided over 153 businesses to tens of millions of dollars in new value and revenue. Recently I had the chance to catch up with Christine, read on to see what she had to say.

 

YPO-WPO: How did you get involved with speaking to YPO-WPO?

            Christine: I received a call from a YPO member asking me to speak at G2: Gathering of Giants. I received a standing ovation. Everyone just kept clapping! Finally the program chair got everyone to sit down. That was in 2010, and I was invited to speak again in 2011. Again the crowd went wild!

YPO-WPO: What YPO-WPO event impacted you the most and why?

Christine: I am new to YPO, my experiences were G2, and meeting YPO members at EO events. I speak for many CEO organizations, and am now reducing the number of engagements with other groups to have more time for YPO. My experience of YPO members has been remarkable—they are deeply committed, emotionally engaged, and highly results-oriented. My favorite combination.

YPO-WPO: What take-home value do members in the YPO-WPO audience walk away with after your session?

Christine: I am known for helping companies move through any transition faster, more effectively and with optimal results. In my programs executives learn how to influence any outcome they desire by applying the latest techniques in human behavior modification.

The consistent feedback I receive from executives is that their perspective changed entirely and they learned practical techniques to:

• Diagnose and cure any leadership challenge
• Diagnose and cure any cultural challenge
• Profoundly raise your ability to influence any outcome, be it in your personal or professional life
• Gain great clarity on how your attention, presence and intention (or lack of) impacts your company and team

• Cause an increase in intrinsic motivation of yourself and team to catapult accountability to levels previously considered impossible

• How to quickly shift “energetic posturing” as a leader to discover other powerful avenues of relatedness to our colleagues, direct reports and team members overall

• Key components to designing a sustainable interaction, be it with a company and/or individual

Once you know these practical neuroscience techniques you are able to challenge your frameworks of reality and thinking. I start by helping you define 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.

All of what I teach applies to managing oneself and others to optimal and often unheard of performance levels. These techniques are tremendously helpful in managing one’s Board of Directors and key stakeholders too.

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 using neuroscience techniques. Disappearing is the only way to ensure profound rapport, which leads to influencing outcomes for the betterment of both parties.

YPO-WPO: What specifically is it about your message that’s relevant to the YPO-WPO audience?  What sets you apart?

Christine: I’ve had the great good fortune to work with some of the top leaders, CEOs and executives in America for the past 28 years. I’ve also studied human behavior modification for 35 years. Combine the leading edge of business strategy plus human behavior modification and the results are nothing short of remarkable.

I’ve not come across someone with a background like mine, but that would be fun! I’ve been an in-the-trenches operational CEO of 5 companies that I either sold or took public, have invested in over 200 companies (including Google, Zip Realty, and 6 that were sold to Cisco) as a venture capitalist, have served on 36 Boards of Directors or Advisors, consulted to or trained  700 of the Fortune 1000 and coached 2 Presidents and 4 Billionaires. I was a Buddhist monk for 7 years too.

I understand high performance people.

YPO members are high performance people. This means you do things others don’t, possibly even can’t do. It also means you stretch into areas of discomfort on a regular basis. That’s how you roll. That’s who you are. YPO members want the latest, greatest tools. You want the tools the other folks don’t even know about. That’s what you’ll learn in my programs.

The tools I teach work at the level of your subconscious mind, which is where 98% of your behaviors come from. These tools help you shift your most challenging emotions, since 90% of our reactions are emotional, and our emotions respond 400x faster than our intellect.

YPO-WPO: How has working with YPO-WPO impacted your presentation or personal life? What personal value has speaking with YPO-WPO provided you with?

Christine: There’s nothing like spending time with your tribe, with the people who play the game of business and life at the level you do. That’s what I love about YPO members—they are all in.  They live with a level of passion that most people don’t. Working with YPO members is invigorating, inspiring and fun.

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