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Barbara Corcoran        

Real Estate Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Author & Co-Host of "Shark Tank"

Barbara Corcoran’s credits include straight D’s in high school and college and 20 jobs by the time she turned 23. It was her next job that would make her one of the most successful entrepreneurs in the country: She borrowed $1,000 and quit her job as a waitress to start a tiny real estate company in New York City. Over the next 25 years Barbara would parlay that $1,000 loan into a $5 billion real estate business, building the largest and best-known brand in the business.

Corcoran is the author of the best seller “Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business!” and host of top podcasts “Business Unusual with Barbara Corcoran” and “888-Barbara”.

Corcoran is a motivational and inspirational speaker. She is a frequent small business and real estate contributor on every major network. Corcoran has been an investor/Shark for the past ten seasons on ABC’s four-time Emmy award winning show, Shark Tank, investing in over 80 businesses to date.

Speech Topics


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.

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.

10 Ways to Build a Powerful Brand

Branding may be the single most important key to success in today's highly competitive world of commerce. Barbara Corcoran is known for having built the most successful real estate brand in New York City, and now she reveals easy-to-follow tips on how she does it: how to create an image much bigger than reality; how to use the press to get free publicity; how to turn yourself into the go-to expert in your field. Barbara shares her personal advice, insights, and anecdotes on creating a powerful brand.

10 Ways to Lead Your Team to Greatness

Entrepreneurs, business managers, and salespeople alike benefit from lessons in how to get people moving on the path to greatness. Barbara Corcoran, who built The Corcoran Group, New York's largest real estate company, is an expert in the art of leading a team to success. From hiring the right people and firing the wrong ones, establishing an atmosphere that breeds innovation, persisting when all the chips are down, and creating fun in the workplace, Barbara shares her unique and winning strategies.

Barbara's Inspirational Rags-to-Riches Story

How do you turn a $1,000 loan into a $5 billion dollar business? According to self-made real estate empress Barbara Corcoran, you do it by learning how to fail well. Barbara tells the story of how, armed with a loan from her boyfriend 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 multi-billion-dollar business. This is a highly motivational and hugely entertaining success story with the big life lessons Barbara learned along the way.

How to Create a Powerful Brand

Branding may be the single most important key to success in today’s highly competitive world of commerce. Barbara Corcoran is known for having built the most successful real estate brand in New York City, and now she reveals easy to follow tips on how she does it: how to create an image much bigger than reality; how to use the press to get free publicity; how to turn yourself into the go-to expert in your field. Barbara shares her personal advice, insights and anecdotes on creating a powerful brand.

  • Barbara's Inspirational Rags to Riches Story
  • 10 Ways To Lead Your Team To Greatness
  • 10 Ways To Build a Powerful Brand

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Leading People to Greatness

Entrepreneurs, business managers and salespeople alike benefit from lessons in how to get people moving on the path to professional and personal 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. From hiring the right people and firing the wrong people to creating fun in the workplace and establishing an atmosphere that breeds innovation, Barbara shares her unique and winning strategies.

How I Got Here

How do you turn a $1,000 loan into a five-billion dollar business? According to self-made real estate empress Barbara Corcoran, you do it by learning how to fail well. Barbara tells the story of how, armed with a loan from her boyfriend 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 multi-billion dollar business. A highly motivational and hugely entertaining success story.

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News


Shark Tank's Barbara Corcoran: 'All the Best Things Happened to Me on the Heels of Rejection'
Barbara Corcoran On Working 24/7 - Business Insider
Working long hours to get ahead or impress your boss? Barbara Corcoran of the hit show "Shark Tank" says this is no way to maintain productivity at your job.
Shark Tank's Barbara Corcoran: entrepreneur mistakes - Business ...
'Shark Tank' investor Barbara Corcoran reveals the worst mistakes aspiring ... Barbara Corcoran has invested in nearly 30 companies over the past six seasons of ... It's why she told Business Insider last year that she never invests in "rich kids " ...

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