Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/04/2024.
Barbara didn't start out as a success. Her credits include straight Ds in high school and college and 22 jobs by the time she turned 23. Thanks to a lucky break, she borrowed $1000, quit her job as a waitress, and started a tiny real estate company in New York City. Barbara built The Corcoran Group into an empire worth $5 billion 25 years later. Barbara shares her unlikely story along with her best tips and tricks for navigating the toughest market in the world. A story of outrageous perseverance and business acumen will keep your audience laughing and learning the whole way through!
Leaders are increasingly recognizing the importance of emotional intelligence (EQ) in building and managing teams, fostering collaboration, and building their competitive advantage. Barbara teaches you to meet the needs of the new employee and their new way of doing business. As remote and hybrid work models continue to be the norm, emotionally intelligent leaders must adapt their management styles to better support hybrid teams, focusing on flexibility, communication, and creative ideas. Barbara inspires today’s leaders with her management technique to bring out the best in your employees building cohesive and powerful teams.
Barbara knows how to make teams click. She’s hired (and fired) thousands of people throughout her career and repeatedly builds unstoppable teams. She shares her unique insights and the practical lessons that will make your leaders more effective and more able to build a powerhouse team that makes a habit out of winning.
Barbara knows that bad times are the best times to move ahead. She survived and prospered amid 18% interest rates, the near-death bankruptcy of New York, the subprime mortgage crisis, and the tragedy of 9/11. Barbara built The Corcoran Group with a $1000 loan into NYC's #1 powerhouse. With her innovative, outside-the-box thinking, she continues to turn her Shark Tank companies into success stories every day. In this session, Barbara shares lessons from the trenches to demonstrate her leadership methodology on how to adapt quickly, pivot, and turn every obstacle into the new opportunity it wants to be.
Barbara has mastered the art of bouncing back and knows that resilience can be taught. It’s the most important skill that gets you through constant change and tough times and inevitably lands you on top. Barbara will motivate your team leaders with her no-nonsense methodology to overcome failure and move ahead. She'll teach your audience to overcome the obstacles that get in the way and how to master the art of the comeback!
Ever wonder what really happens in the Tank? Do the sharks really invest their own money, and how much money do they win or lose? How many businesses fail right out of the gate, and which are the most successful? What are the traits that successful entrepreneurs have in common? What goes wrong, and what's Kevin really like? What unexpected and ridiculous antics happen on set that the audience never gets to see? A fast-paced, photo-packed, fun-filled peek behind the scenes on "Shark Tank" with Barbara.
Barbara Corcoran is a keynote speaker and industry expert who speaks on a wide range of topics such as How She Built It! Barbara's Rags to Riches Story, Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: Leading to Greatness, How to Spot & Recruit Talent, How to Build Your Business Through Troubled Times & Prosper, How to Bounce Back from Failure and Shark Tank Unfiltered. The estimated speaking fee range to book Barbara Corcoran for your event is $100,000 - $200,000. Barbara Corcoran generally travels from New York, NY, USA and can be booked for (private) corporate events, personal appearances, keynote speeches, or other performances. Similar motivational celebrity speakers are Daymond John, Sara Blakely, Marc Randolph, Cynthia Marshall and Kevin O'Leary. Contact All American Speakers for ratings, reviews, videos and information on scheduling Barbara Corcoran for an upcoming live or virtual event.
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