Chris Westfall

How's your elevator pitch? Chris Westfall has created multimillion dollar revenue streams for companies on four continents, with innovative new strategies on leadership communication. As the US National Elevator Pitch Champion, he's helped clients to land on Shark Tank, Dragon’s Den, and Shark Tank - Australia. A consultant to financial leaders and Fortune 100 companies, he’s helped entrepreneurs to launch a broad array of businesses, and successfully re-branded products and services around the globe. Since 2013, he's helped launch over 50 companies, while raising over $32 Million in investment capital for student startups and coaching teams to victory in the Intel Global Capital Conference, the Harvard Executive MBA Pitch Competition, and the Rice Business Plan Competition 2016 (the largest and most lucrative pitch competition in the world). Chris' clients include HP, Cisco, Unilever, Discover Card, Great American Insurance, The Jewish Federations of North America, American General Insurance, Ashland, Experian, Ernst & Young and many more. Focused on the leaders of tomorrow, Chris has worked with a number of universities across North America, including SUNY, The University of Pennsylvania, SMU, The University of Chicago, and dozens of others. An awardwinning MBA instructor, his latest book is called BulletProof Branding (2014), the follow-up to the best seller, The NEW Elevator Pitch. Originally from Chicago, Chris resides in Houston, TX, with his wife and two daughters, and is an avid supporter of the performing and visual arts.