Actelion Pharmaceuticals- Leaderhip Offsite

"...Fantastic time with our whole HR department...we accomplished more that we ever thought we could...great time doing it, great food, lots of laughs...we highly recommend CEO Chef to any corporation."

Lebanon Turf- National Sales Meeting

"... spectacular event tonight at our sales meeting...fabulous!... outside the box and this was it! ...teams worked together...we were all one level group as people having a blast and coming together."

"...Highly recommend it...Do this for your group, you'll never forget it!"

Del Monte Foods Sales & Marketing

"...I brought him (Jim Connolly)a unusual request, something outside of what he would typically do...he was able to quickly and easily assimulate what I was looking for...delivered beyond expectations...ecstatic about the results!

Southern California Edison, Risk Management Team Building Offsite

“...wanted some enhancement on taking them out of their comfort zone and that’s what CEO Chef did for us...their have been great to work with, Jim’s a great motivator, a great speaker...Renee has has been great working with my staff...we certainly will use these folks (CEO Chef) again, in the near future”

“...we contacted CEO Chef because Southern California Edison has used them before...we only had three weeks to get everything together and everything was wonderful...Jim Connolly and his staff were wonderful, answering all of my questions...a lot of communication and I would get my calls returned immediately...and when we had some last minute changes, I called Renee Gordon, after hours and was surprised that she called me back within minutes, I think that lady never sleeps! She (Renee) made the changes and contacted the hotel first thing in the morning the next day, took care of the changes and everything was wonderful! ...put me at ease, everybody loved it...I would definitely go back to them again!

Bosch Security & Communications- Sales Retreat

“...we have 380 Bosch people at an event to bring everyone together, CEO Chef put a great event on for us...and Jim was a wonderful host... and the food was fabulous!”

Diageo- Leadership Retreat

“...bonding and dealing with the uncertainty and issues on not having a kitchen, this gave us an opportunity to talk and leverage each other and be a team and show how collectively we made a difference...it was amazing to see how we created a great meal that everyone enjoyed...I recommend you (CEO Chef) for other team building functions for Diageo...”

“...we were looking for something that was innovative, and fun way to do team effectiveness and team building, and being a group of project leaders ... this was a great experience, it was a blast! ... the food was great and I think the bonding was even better!”

Southern California Edison "TAPS" Leadership Offsite

“...we wanted a chance to get to know each other, be comfortable and have fun and that’s exactly what it did and it helped us work better as a team!”

“...and I thought this adventure we took was awesome and we got to know each other a little bit better and we were able to work together as a team and have a great time doing it.”

“...and I would recommend it to anyone considering hiring Jim (Connolly) and CEO Chef”

“...I’m very happy to had stumbled upon CEO Chef, they put together a great, great program for us... it was tailor made to our HR needs... it really brought lot of people together and they took away lot with them to apply to their own daily lives... once again it was a great experience and I would recommend it to anybody!”

National University - Leadership Training Day

“... I’d like to add my endorsement of CEO Chef, we are building a program here with our HR team on stretching your strengths and to be able to accomplish anything you want ... CEO Chef has been able to come out here and help us prove though our cooking skills, even though none of us are cooks, that there is nothing we can’t accomplish, so it’s been a great mirror to our strength building program and a great compliment to what we are trying to accomplish.”

Discovery Communications (Channel) - Leadership Offsite

“... as Senior Vice President of Human Resources of Discovery and formerly Senior Vice President of NBC/Universal,  I have worked with CEO Chef many times before and had great experience (at NBC/Universal). I ran an event tonight with my new team... and we just enjoyed it tremendously and I recommend this highly to anyone doing team building events.”

Nokia -Leadership Conference (with N-Able Alliance)

“...I am president of N-Able Allience. I work with corporate executives and (their) teams. Today we had CEO Chef come here in Dallas to work with on of my best customers, Nokia. Jim and the CEO Chef team did an outstanding job and (we) achieved  everything we st out to achieve and more... I thoroughly recommend them to anyone who is thinking of doing this kind of event.”

Arden Realty Annual Team Building Event

“...we just had our first Arden “Iron Chef” event hosted by CEO Chef. It was a fantastic event, well organized. Lots of fun, lots of team buidling and just a fantastic event all together. Thank you so much, CEO Chef. Everyone had a great time.”

Southern California Edison - Leadership Offsite

“... I work for Southern California Edison and I’m here to let you know that I have used CEO Chef, Mr. Jim Connolly, for several of my events that I have planned (I’m a corporate event planner). His team did an excellent job of providing wonderful team building services in cooking. It’s great and I think you’ll be very happy with the services that he provides.”

Amgen - Sales Team Training

“The CEO Chef activity was a HUGE success! People couldn’t stop talking about it...Thanks so much for your flexibility and help. Our teams are much better for the exercise and I was amazed at how much it loosened everyone up and took us to a new level in terms of openness with one another. Thank you for everything!”

“...we worked with CEO Chef to team build with our two sales teams and found it to be an extraordinary experience...fun and had great lessons related to teamwork... it’s a great lesson in communication, in planning, in organization and most of all, just n having  fun and getting to learn more about each other. So, thank you, CEO Chef!”

Blue Shield Insurance Team Building Sales Offsite

“I love the program today and in over 30 years in the industry in sales, this the best by far!”

“I am not so athletic and I am sick of doing athletic events at these team building events. And it was the first time I could enjoy cooking and eating while building team spirit as well. It was awesome! I would highly recommend it!”