Her experience taught her how to market and sell products, services and herself. Now, Christine Clifford Beckwith shares that message with others.

Christine has definitely cracked "the glass ceiling." At the age of 40, she was Senior Executive Vice President for SPAR Marketing Services, an international merchandising and information services firm in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

As the top salesperson in the multi-billion dollar retail services industry for over eight years, Christine was responsible for accounts with Kmart, Toys 'R' Us, Wal-Mart, AT&T, Mattel Toys and Revlon, among others. Taking her company from a million dollar per year loss to over $54 million in sales, Christine signed the largest contract in the history of her industry with Procter & Gamble, doubling the size of her company overnight.

Diagnosed with breast cancer in December of 1994, Christine went on to write five award-winning books of her story in Not Now...I'm Having a No Hair Day; Our Family Has Cancer, Too! (written especially for children); Inspiring Breakthrough Secrets to Live Your Dreams; Cancer Has Its Privileges: Stories of Hope & Laughter and Your Guardian Angel's Gift.

That same year, Christine faced a life-changing experience when she began her own company. Today, that organization is the world's largest producer of humorous and helpful products for people with cancer. Christine's philosophies and strategies for becoming your industry's leader are proven theories that have propelled her and the companies she's worked with to the top of their fields. Ideas, action, results...

Christine is a contributing author to Chicken Soup for the Survivor's Soul, Chicken Soup for the Golfer's Soul, Chicken Soup for the Writer's Soul and is featured in the books The Courage to Laugh and The Triumph of the Human Spirit: Real Cancer Survivors, Real Battles, Real Victories. Christine's newest book, written with her husband Harry Beckwith, You, Inc. The Art of Selling Yourself, has already been named a "Notable Book of 2007" by the American Booksellers Association.

She has been featured in Better Homes & Gardens, MORE magazine, American Health and Golf Digest as well as The Singapore Women's Weekly and the Hindu in India. She was a 1998 "Hero Award" finalist for Coping magazine and appeared on CNN Live in 1998 as "one of the world's leading authorities on the use of therapeutic humor." She has also appeared on Lifetime Television Network's "New Attitudes" show and the "Leeza Show."

Host of The Christine Clifford Celebrity Golf Invitational, a benefit for breast cancer research, Christine's inaugural event raised over $100,000, making it the most successful first-year event in the history of the American Cancer Society. She has raised over $1,000,000 for breast cancer research and has received the Council of Excellence Award for income development from the American Cancer Society.

Christine is a member of the Minnesota Speakers Association, the American Association for Applied and Therapeutic Humor and the National Association of Breast Cancer Organizations. She is listed in International Who's Who of Professionals, International Who's Who of Entrepreneurs, and International Who's Who of Authors and Writers. She is also listed in Contemporary Authors and 2,000 Notable American Women. Christine serves on the Board of Directors for the Minnesota Oncology Hematology Foundation.

• You, Inc. The Art of Selling Yourself - Christine was the top salesperson in the multi-billion dollar retail services industry for eight years, and in 1994 signed the largest contract in the history of her industry with Proctor & Gamble, doubling the size of her company overnight. Yet Christine believes that it's not the product, service or cause that people buy from you or your company: It's YOU. And selling yourself is an art.
  
  
• Spinning Ideas Into Action - Christine believes you can rise to the top of your industry in two years or less following her ten steps to success. Whether you are in management, sales, marketing or self-employed, Christine's philosophies and strategies for becoming your industry's leader are proven theories that have propelled her and the companies she's worked with to the top of their field. Ideas + Action = Results
  
  
• Selling the Invisible: The Four Keys to Selling Your Services - What are the four keys to marketing and selling your services? Price: what is it you are saying about the quality of service? Brand: what are you doing to promote yours? Packaging: can you afford not to take a complete visual inventory of yourself, your company and your marketing materials? Relationships: how do you create extraordinary client relationships? Christine explores these with colorful, humorous real-life examples and years of expertise.
  
  
• Laughter: It's Good Medicine! - If you are looking for a keynote address that will teach your audience a new way to look at life's adversities, this is it! Christine's immediate family has dealt with heart disease, diabetes, dialysis and kidney transplant, hepatitis, chronic depression and drug abuse. Her success stories are powerful and humorous examples of survival in the face of adversity. Don't forget to laugh!®
  
  
• An Afternoon of Hope, Laughter & Positive Thinking - Using her world-famous cartoons, stories and audience participation, Christine helps people release their tensions and relax into the moment. With a powerful message of hope and inspiration, Christine reminds us that we can't always change what has happened to us, but we can change our attitudes. Christine helps individuals rediscover the healing power of humor.