Barbara Corcoran

Barbara Corcoran
Founder of The Corcoran Group & Shark on ABC’s “Shark Tank”



Expertise In:
- Women in Business Leadership
- Branding
- Business Growth and Trends
- Peak Performance
- Professional Achievement
Audience & Industry
- Corporations
- Sales Professionals
- The Marketing and Advertising Industry
- Women's Events
From humble beginnings to the fast and furious New York City real estate market, Barbara Corcoran shares her story of success with audiences and provides insight on what it takes to lead teams to greatness and grow their business.
After failing at 22 jobs, Barbara Corcoran borrowed $1,000 from a boyfriend, quit her job as a diner waitress, and started a tiny real estate office in New York City. Using the unconventional lessons she learned from her homemaker mom, she gradually built a $6 billion dollar business, The Corcoran Group.Highly motivational and sensationally entertaining, Barbara Corcoran’s recipes for success are chock-full of real life lessons. Not to be missed!
Barbara Corcoran's Speech Topics
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.