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Barbara Corcoran        

NYC Real Estate Queen, Shark Tank "Shark", Host of "Business Unusual" & "888-Barbara" Podcast

Barbara Corcoran's journey from receiving straight D's in high school and college to becoming one of the nation's leading entrepreneurs began when she borrowed $1,000 and quit her job as a waitress to start a tiny real estate company in New York City. Over the years, she transformed that initial loan into a $5 billion real estate empire, establishing The Corcoran Group as the foremost brand in the business.

Corcoran is the author of the national bestseller "Shark Tales: How I Turned $1,000 into a Billion Dollar Business!" and hosts the acclaimed podcast "Business Unusual with Barbara Corcoran." Additionally, she has penned other books including "Nextville: Amazing Places to Live Your Life," and "Shark Tales."

As a motivational and inspirational speaker, Corcoran delivers keynotes that blend her vast real estate knowledge with insights from her role on ABC's "Shark Tank." She has been a dynamic investor/Shark on the show for fourteen seasons, investing in over 100 ventures, thereby demonstrating her keen insight in identifying and nurturing successful business ideas. She is also a frequent small business and real estate contributor across major networks, including NBC’s "TODAY Show" where she serves as the real estate contributor.

Through her speaking engagements, Corcoran shares her expertise on leadership, innovation, entrepreneurship, and the importance of resilience, particularly highlighting her experiences of navigating through three economic recessions. Through these presentations, she offers invaluable strategies on how to thrive in challenging times, drawing from her extensive background in building a powerful real estate brand and her interactive sessions on "Shark Tank."

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How She Built It! Barbara's Rags to Riches Story

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!

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership: Leading to Greatness

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.

How to Spot & Recruit Talent

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.

How to Build Your Business Through Troubled Times & Prosper

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.

How to Bounce Back from Failure

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!

Shark Tank Unfiltered

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.

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Fireside Chat: Ask Barbara Anything

Got a question? Turn the tables on Barbara in this suped-up Q&A session of your choice! Invite your own company executive to lead the discussion and have your audience ask what's on their mind. Barbara takes the hot seat, entertaining your audience with her unorthodox stories and her always candid, often unexpected answers.

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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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