I Can't Take Your Call Right Now, I'm In A Meeting: How to make time invested in meetings pay off [Paperback]

Chris Clarke-Epstein (Author)

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About the Author

Chris Clarke-Epstein, CSP has done many things in her life - from succesfully managing a 7 million dollar sales territory, raising two mostly economically self-sufficient children and, since 1984, building a thriving speaking, training, and consulting business.

Her mother claims that Chris gave her first speech at age six, when she was caught lining up neighborhood children, collecting their nickels and promising them a narrated tour of her newborn brother. These days, Chris delivers speaking and training programs around the world helping people learn faster, work better, and laugh harder. Her programs on building effective teams, increasing personal creativity, and thriving during change energize audiences with a powerful blend of sound research, practical experience, and infectious enthusiasm. Her clients, from Fortune 500 Companies to State and National Associations, often pay her the highest compliments - they bring her back again and recommend her to others.

Chris serves on the Board of Directors of the National Speakers Association. In 1998 she was elected Vice President of NSA and will serve as NSA President in 2000-2001. Chris earned the Certified Speaking Professional designation from NSA in 1993, a designation she shares with fewer than 325 other CSPs in the world.

Chris is the author of seven books and has recorded several video and audio tape series that enable people to take her ideas and humor home with them. Her stories of real people living in the real world encourage them to re-evaluate their own ability to have the lives they want.

Product Details

• Paperback: 44 pages
• Publisher: Link Publications (July 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964393352
• ISBN-13: 978-0964393356
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,996,616 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Chris Clarke-Epstein, CSP is a change expert who has spent the last 25 years guiding diverse groups including senior management teams, front line customer service representatives, and factory workers, as they worked to become cohesive teams. Her work blends sound theory, practical solutions, and infectious enthusiasm in order to prepare individuals to enhance their own teams.

Author of and contributor to more than 13 books, Chris teaches and writes in critical areas such as personality profiling, understanding the dynamics of change, dealing with conflict, and building real consensus. She has experienced the book process from concept to manuscript, design to production, and marketing and sales from the self-publishing perspective and as an author under contract to both McGraw Hill and AMACOM Books. She is a sought after coach for speakers going through the writing and publishing process.

Chris' speaking, training, and facilitation skills have taken her around the nation and the world doing work for clients such as Deloitte, WE Energies, NML, LubriCorp, and Johnson Oil Company. She has worked with leadership groups that were newly forming, those needing to renew their focus and enthusiasm, and those merging to create newly aligned, high performing teams. She served as adjunct faculty at the Center for Telecommunication/USC, is a Certified Speaking Professional, and is past president of the National Speakers Association.