Carol Kent

Carol Kent is a best-selling author and a popular international public speaker who is known for being dynamic, humorous, encouraging, and biblical. She is a former radio show co-host and has often been a guest on Focus on the Family and a featured speaker at Time Out for Women and Heritage Keepers arena events; she has also spoken at The Praise Gathering for Believers and at Vision New England's Congress. Her testimony was recently aired on the Billy Graham Prime Time TV Special and she frequently speaks at Extraordinary Women events.

Carol has spoken internationally in Germany, Bulgaria, China, Korea, Hong Kong, Guatemala, Mexico, and Canada. She regularly appears on a wide variety of nationally syndicated radio and television broadcasts. Past appearances have included Dateline NBC, CNN LIVE, Deborah Norville Tonight on MSNBC, At Home Live with Chuck & Jenni, Focus on the Family, On Main Street, LIFE Today with James Robison, Prime Time America, Midday Connection, Family Life Today, and 100 Huntley Street. Carol has also been a keynote speaker for the televised and nationally syndicated women's conference, THRIVE!

She is the president of Speak Up Speaker Services, a Christian speakers' bureau, and the founder and director of Speak Up With Confidence seminars, a ministry committed to helping Christians develop their communication skills. She founded the nonprofit organization, Speak Up for Hope, which benefits the families of incarcerated individuals.

She holds a master's degree in communication arts and a bachelor's degree in speech education. She has taught speech and drama, and directed women's ministries at a large mid-western church. She is also on the advisory boards of the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association and MOPS International.

Her books include: A New Kind of Normal (Thomas Nelson), When I Lay My Isaac Down, Becoming a Woman of Influence, Mothers Have Angel Wings, Secret Longings of the Heart, Tame Your Fears, Speak Up With Confidence, and Detours, Tow Trucks, and Angels in Disguise (all NavPress). She has also co-written with Karen Lee-Thorp the Designed for Influence Bible Studies (six books in the series, NavPress). Carol is the co-author and general editor of the Kisses of Sunshine Series of five books (Zondervan). She has been featured on the cover of Today's Christian Woman and her articles have been published in a wide variety of magazines.