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Reviews of Cathy O'Dowd

ONLY (!) very positive feedback. The best talk ever. She attracted the audience's attention for the whole length of the speech.

Alexandra Blicke, Marketing Project Manager UBS Global Asset Management

This is the first time we had a speaker who is not a "traditional business" speaker and I am happy to say that it was one of our biggest successes. For the first time the comments from our audience... were unanimously positive. Excerpts of the feedback we received included: - "Best Speaker ever" - "riveting, inspirational" - "Hugely motivating" - "Excellent way to approach leadership theme" - "won't ever forget"

Nancy McKinstry, Chairman Executive Board Wolters Kluwer

The combination of teamwork ideas and Everest stories was spellbinding - your presentation style is electric ... the Monday keynote (i.e. you) received the highest rankings of all the 100+ sessions through the week.

Phil Grainger, advisor to planning committee IDUG (International DB2 Users Group)

I have received nothing but positive and appreciative feedback on your talk - our delegates were enthralled, absorbed and inspired by it and I am certain that they all took away many of the messages which were contained in it.

John Staley, Independent User Groups Representative SSA Global

... your brilliant keynote ... was a tremendous success, and your story was a true inspiration to the sales force. It showed; as Rob mentioned to you on stage already, a standing ovation of our "tough" European audience means a lot! Attendees were requested to give their rating after each session. Your score was 4.76 for content, and 4.75 for delivery, with an average of 4.76 [out of 5], which is extremely high.

Tjaarda de Loor, Event Marketing EMEA Cisco Systems

The results are in! You were a hit! A sampling of comments.... " Best thing about this event was Cathy" " Absolutely great!" " Very Inspiring" " Excellent speaker" Suffice to say, you were very effective, entertaining and inspiring? Your ability to adapt your powerful story to meet our specific needs was uncanny.

Frank R. Wilson (Director, HRD, APAC) Nokia Mobile Phones

? to say people were impressed is an understatement! You managed to mix the business speak in, without it sounding trite- you acknowledged the buzz words, without decrying the language of business. You were able to relate your (what is an extreme scenario, when all said and done) experience to the business world.

Hugh Spalding (HR Business Consultant) Hewlett Packard Services

As an executive you are regularly exposed to so-called motivational speakers...at best they tend to be a reasonable break from daily tedium, usually they are just plain meaningless. Your speech last week left everyone very moved in the best sense of the word. Even my most cynical colleagues were impressed and took away some things to 'munch' on intellectually.

Patricia Seeman Zurich Financial Services

Thank you so much for your time out here - you won't believe the responses we got on your presentation.... The slides were incredible and the tragic moments added to the reality of it all. All in all you made a very common topic - teamwork - more real and vivid and everyone took a lot away.

Thura Ko (Communications, Media and Entertainment) Goldman Sachs

Thank you not only for great delivery of a great story but more importantly for interpreting my brief so well and aligning your message to our conference theme.

Karen McGrath, Conference Organiser Royal Bank of Scotland Group