Carolyn Strauss: Sales Persuasion
Business strategist and engaging keynote speaker Carolyn Strauss helps organizations elevate communication, strengthen team performance, and achieve outcomes through mindset mastery and practical, experience-backed strategies.
Quick Facts:
- Highlights:
- More than 28 years of experience as a business strategist and presenter
- Expert in communication, reinvention, gender dynamics, and mindset mastery
- Lifelong stage and on-camera professional with extensive media experience
- Known for highly engaging, humorous, and interactive presentations
- Formats: Keynote speaker, business strategist, communication trainer, workshop facilitator
- Audiences: Corporate teams, leadership groups, sales organizations, customer-facing teams, HR and professional development audiences, and businesses seeking improved communication, collaboration, and mindset alignment.
- Outcomes:
- Mindset strategies to overcome internal barriers and achieve desired outcomes
- Enhanced communication and collaboration across teams and roles
- Practical tools for reinvention, performance improvement, and organizational alignment
- Travels from: Denver, CO
- **Fee range: $10,001 - $20,000
Talent Services
Keynote Topics:
Effective Execution:
Get Work Done Without Killing Your People
As a leader or manager, you request projects and outcomes; but what comes back is surprisingly not what you intended. Your team is clear as to who is responsible for what but they feel an unbalanced workload. Your people use lists to get tasks done but the distinction between a project list and a task list has people wasting time. And imagine another year goes by with things moving as they are, is that good enough?
Execution is not what you think. The key to effective execution lies in the preparation. The more energy and focus you put into the intended outcomes, allocation of resources and gaining of commitment, the faster and successfully any project will come to fruition.
This program is strategically designed to anchor the 8 simple, clear and implementable steps that take the uncertainty out of getting projects done, keeping everyone engaged and energized, and moving companies agendas forward.
*(This keynote / masterclass may be titled to reflect the theme of your conference/ meeting.)
Outcomes
- Attendees will get the “EX tool” that will insure everyone knows the when, where, why and who is responsible for any part of any project.
- Through this powerful decision-making tool, audience members will leave knowing which projects are important for moving the business forward profitably and productively, and which are just busy-work.
- Learn how effectively completing one project before beginning another can help retain and keep the best employees.
- Carolyn is a certified WORKING GENIUS facilitator, and she can bring this powerful productivity assessment tool to this program.
Managing People, Power and Priorities in a Changed Business Environment
Most leaders and managers spend their hours at work reacting to demands and requests on their time and attention. Yet there are projects and deadlines that require them to be pro-active. How do you structure your time and priorities to effectively manage your responsibilities? This entertaining and informative session addresses breakdowns around interruptions, communication failures and boundaries, and creates opportunities to optimize time and relationships. After 15 years of delivering this program, all of the content in this program is applicable and practical and will be tailored specifically to the needs of the organization.
*(This keynote /masterclass may be titled to reflect the theme of your conference/ meeting.)
Outcomes
- Attendees will get a visual representation of exactly where they are spending their time
- Attendees will determine where they are getting ROI and where they are getting depleted
- Learn a tool that increases productivity and leads to higher DPMs (Dollars per Minute)
- Boundaries around time and attention will be addressed
- Tested methods of responding to requests and demands will be explored
Using Your Image for Persuasion and Influence aka Presenting with Optimal Power*
Human beings instinctively make judgements about others based on how they look. Does the first impression you make match what you want others to see, think or know about you? Incongruence or disconnect because of your appearance are obstacles easily overcome with the right guidance.
*(This keynote / masterclass may be titled to reflect the theme of your conference / meeting.)
Outcomes
- Enter a room “on purpose” in a way that creates confidence, approachability and a positive attitude
- Strategically select wardrobe and use body language to establish a comfortable rapport with anyone
- Project a complete image, thereby creating the desired results in both business and personal situations
- Incorporate touch into your interpersonal interactions in a way that is non-threatening and facilitates relaxed conversation
- Use your image to enhance your ability to earn more DPMs
Communication Skills for Wicked Smart People*
Subject matter experts need to present ideas and concepts to persuade, educate and inform both internal and external audiences.
This program is designed to help experts, “wicked smart people” to better engage and communicate important information and research to Stakeholders and audiences to benefit and move forward the objectives of the company.
Outcomes
- Get a basic overview of why speak
- Learn to alleviate nerves
- Learn how most effectively to communicate ideas to specific audiences
- Create a purpose statement for the presentation
- Decide which visuals are necessary and how to engage with them to have the intended impact
- Virtual presentations/ Phone and Video conferencing. How to make your message land and relevant
Talent Short Bio
Carolyn Strauss is a powerful and engaging keynote speaker, business strategist, and media professional known for captivating audiences with her humor, authenticity, and results-driven insights. With more than 28 years of experience in the marketplace—including entrepreneurial ventures, a successful modeling career, retail leadership, and extensive on-camera work—Carolyn brings a uniquely diverse perspective to every stage. Her programs are designed to help teams communicate more effectively, remove mindset barriers, and achieve the outcomes they truly desire.
For over two decades, Carolyn has trained and inspired audiences around the world, delivering strategies rooted in business performance, reinvention, gender communication, and marketplace dynamics. She has studied with top global experts in voice dialogue, communication, and business transformation, integrating these disciplines into her highly practical and energizing presentations. Her signature approach focuses on helping individuals understand behavioral patterns, optimize collaboration, and align personal mindset with organizational goals.
Known for speaking with audiences rather than at them, Carolyn creates an environment where participants learn, engage, and shift perspectives in real time.
Read Full Bio
Carolyn Strauss is a powerful, compelling, effervescent, and entertaining presenter who speaks with audiences – not at them. Her programs are based on over 28 years of research and experience as a successful businesswoman in the marketplace.
For over twenty years, Carolyn has passionately shared her strategies and business methods with audiences worldwide, teaching people how to set their minds to not get in the way of outcomes they desire.
Carolyn Strauss has spent her life on stage and on camera. She has studied and worked with some of the foremost experts in the world on business strategy, reinvention, gender communication, transacting in the marketplace and voice dialogue. Through years of continuous practice, study and learning, Carolyn brings unmatched expertise to serve her clients.
Her passion to create workplaces that support team members, the executive suite and the goals of the business is evident, and she communicates her hard earned knowledge to each of her clients with a keen sense of humor and an engaging delivery.
Through a lifetime of entrepreneurial ventures, a successful modeling career, years of retail experience and a television career, Carolyn has a varied background where she has been exposed to nearly every type of enterprise. This unique set of experiences has honed her ability to work successfully with almost any type of business.
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