Christine Clifford Beckwith
For eight consecutive years the retail services industry's top salesperson, Christine directed accounts including Target, Toys'R'Us, and Revlon, led her company to over $54 million in annual sales, and signed the industry's record account with Procter & Gamble.
Diagnosed with breast cancer in 1994, Christine wrote a humorous portrayal of her story in Not Now, I'm Having A No Hair Day!, a nominee for 1996's Best Motivational Book. She also is the author of Our Family Has Cancer, Too! , Inspiring Breakthrough Secrets to Live Your Dreams, Cancer Has Its Privileges, Your Guardian Angel's Gift, and You, Inc: The Art of Selling Yourself, and contributed to three Chicken Soup books.
She has been featured in Better Homes & Gardens, MORE, American Health, and Golf Digest and appeared on CNN Live, Lifetime's New Attitudes, and the Leeza Show.
Christine founded and runs The Cancer Club, the world's largest producer of humorous and helpful products for people with cancer.
From 1998 to 2002 she hosted the Christine Clifford Celebrity Golf Invitational, which raised over $1.1 million for breast cancer research and won the American Cancer Society's Council of Excellence Award.
Christine serves on the boards of Angel Foundation and the state chapter of the National Speakers' Association.