Barbara Corcoran

Business Thought Leader, ABC’s Shark Tank | Founder of the Corcoran Group

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Best known as the brilliant, brash, and beloved “Shark” on ABC’s four-time Emmy award-winning show, Shark Tank, Barbara Corcoran is one of North America’s most recognized and respected entrepreneurs. However, before she was a television personality, she was a business mogul. Barbara Corcoran famously turned a $1,000 loan into a five-billion-dollar real estate empire, making her a true American success story. Her journey is a powerful testament to the power of grit, innovation, and relentless determination.

The competitive world of New York real estate forged her business acumen. With that single loan, she founded The Corcoran Group. Through sheer will and street smarts, she built it into the largest and most famous real estate brand in the city. As a “Shark,” Barbara Corcoran has continued her legacy of building businesses. She is a sought-after investor and mentor who has invested in over 80 companies to date. Her keen eye for talent and her knack for nurturing entrepreneurs are legendary.

As a result of her incredible success, Barbara Corcoran is a highly sought-after keynote speaker for the world’s leading organizations. She has inspired audiences at top companies like Google, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, and General Motors. Beyond sharing expert insights, Barbara delivers dynamic, motivational, and often hilarious presentations packed with actionable advice. She connects with audiences instantly, sharing her hard-won wisdom on leadership, innovation, and leading teams to greatness.

Ultimately, Barbara Corcoran does more than just share her story. She leaves audiences energized, inspired, and equipped with the street smarts they need to rethink their businesses, reinvent their brands, and achieve their own incredible success.

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How to Build a Business - Using Innovation,Branding, Leadership and Guts

Innovation may be the single most important key to success in today’s highly competitive marketplace. Barbara Corcoran is known for having built the most successful real estate business in New York City, and now she reveals the unconventional strategies she used to do it: how to create an image bigger than the reality; how to use the press to get free publicity; and how a little savvy and a lot of guts can turn you into the leader in your field. Barbara shares her innovative ideas, insights and anecdotes on building a thriving business and a successful brand in today’s marketplace.

Barbara's Rags-to-Riches Story

How do you turn a $1,000 loan into a $5 billion business? According to self-made real estate empress and TV personality Barbara Corcoran, you do it by learning how to fail well. Barbara tells the story of how, armed with a $1,000 loan and her own gritty determination, she quit her job as a waitress to start a tiny real estate company in New York City and turned that company into a multibillion-dollar business. Barbara describes what it’s like to go from a tiny startup to New York City’s largest real estate company, to a major TV personality as the real estate contributor to NBC’s TODAY and a shark on ABC’s Shark Tank, and how she overcame the many obstacles along the way. This is a highly motivational and hugely entertaining success story.

How to Lead Your Team to Greatness

Barbara Corcoran, who led 1,000 brokers at The Corcoran Group, New York’s largest real estate company, is an expert in the art of leading a team to success. She knows exactly what it takes to create a thriving workplace and how to develop a winning team from a diverse group of employees from Gen Y to Gen X to baby boomers. From hiring the right people and firing the wrong people to bringing fun into the workplace and establishing an atmosphere that breeds innovation, Barbara shares her unique and winning strategies in how to get people moving on the path to professional and personal greatness.