Carolyn Strauss
CSP
CO, USHelp your audience sell smarter, communicate clearer, and adapt faster when what used to work no longer works. Carolyn Strauss helps leaders increase their Dollars Per Minute™ with practical tools, real-world business insight, and the Irresistibility Index for Leaders.
In today’s business environment, what used to work does not always work anymore. Clients are harder to reach. Trust takes longer to build. Sales cycles are changing. Teams are stretched. Leaders are expected to communicate clearly, adapt quickly, and create results with less time, less margin, and more pressure.
Carolyn Strauss helps audiences solve that problem.
As a keynote speaker, emcee, facilitator, and business strategist, Carolyn helps leaders and teams increase their Dollars Per Minute™ by improving the way they sell, communicate, connect, and perform. Her programs give audiences practical tools they can use immediately to build trust faster, strengthen client relationships, make smarter decisions, improve productivity, and adapt to constant change.
Carolyn brings the CPR today’s audiences need: Context, Perspective, and Results.
She gives audiences context for why the old rules of sales, leadership, and communication are shifting. She brings perspective from more than four decades of real-world business experience, including 18 years on-camera with HSN, where she personally sold more than $160 million of her own clothing line, The Carolyn Strauss Collection, including $1 million in one day. And she delivers results through practical frameworks, interactive tools, and strategies people can apply the moment they return to work.
Carolyn is uniquely qualified to help organizations reinvent how their people think, communicate, and execute. She is a Certified Speaking Professional, Certified Reinvention Practitioner, Exactly What to Say® Certified Guide, and Certified Working Genius Facilitator. This rare combination allows her to help audiences understand what is changing, communicate what matters, and take action faster.
Her proprietary work includes Dollars Per Minute™, which helps leaders and teams make every conversation, presentation, meeting, and client interaction more valuable, and the Irresistibility Index for Leaders, a practical tool that helps people understand what makes them easier to trust, follow, buy from, and refer.
Meeting professionals hire Carolyn when they want a speaker who is safe, smart, engaging, and current. She brings high energy without fluff, business credibility without boredom, and audience interaction without losing control of the room. Her work is especially relevant for leadership conferences, sales meetings, association events, healthcare and biotech teams, accounting and financial professionals, executive groups, and organizations navigating change.
Carolyn has worked with associations, executive teams, sales organizations, and more than 100 CEO leadership groups. She is one of the top-rated Vistage speakers and has appeared on CBS, CNN, ABC, NBC, PBS, Food Network, Lifetime Television, and HSN. She is a former CEO, television personality, professional emcee, author, and active member of the Screen Actors Guild.
Her client list includes multiple retail industry giants and other Fortune 500 clients, including Macy's, Nordstrom, JC Penney, Toyota, Hanover Construction, ASI Show and Primedia Inc.
Carolyn speaks with audiences, not at them. Her programs are practical, funny, fast-moving, and deeply relevant to the challenges leaders face now.
Most requested programs include:
Reinventing Sales, Increase your Dollars Per Minute™
Reinventing Communication: Skills for Wicked Smart People™
Reinvention Leadership, How to Make You and Your Company Irresistible; Contains her propriatary "Irresistibility Index" for Leaders
Reinventing Execution: Get Work Done Without Killing Your People
When your audience needs more than motivation, Carolyn Strauss delivers the context, perspective, and results to help them think smarter, communicate better, adapt faster, and create measurable value.
In today’s business environment, what used to work does not always work anymore. Clients are harder to reach. Trust takes longer to build. Sales cycles are changing. Teams are stretched. Leaders are expected to communicate clearly, adapt quickly, and create results with less time, less margin, and more pressure.
Carolyn Strauss helps audiences solve that problem.
As a keynote speaker, emcee, facilitator, and business strategist, Carolyn helps leaders and teams increase their Dollars Per Minute™ by improving the way they sell, communicate, connect, and perform. Her programs give audiences practical tools they can use immediately to build trust faster, strengthen client relationships, make smarter decisions, improve productivity, and adapt to constant change.
Carolyn brings the CPR today’s audiences need: Context, Perspective, and Results.
She gives audiences context for why the old rules of sales, leadership, and communication are shifting. She brings perspective from more than four decades of real-world business experience, including 18 years on-camera with HSN, where she personally sold more than $160 million of her own clothing line, The Carolyn Strauss Collection, including $1 million in one day. And she delivers results through practical frameworks, interactive tools, and strategies people can apply the moment they return to work.
Carolyn is uniquely qualified to help organizations reinvent how their people think, communicate, and execute. She is a Certified Speaking Professional, Certified Reinvention Practitioner, Exactly What to Say® Certified Guide, and Certified Working Genius Facilitator. This rare combination allows her to help audiences understand what is changing, communicate what matters, and take action faster.
Her proprietary work includes Dollars Per Minute™, which helps leaders and teams make every conversation, presentation, meeting, and client interaction more valuable, and the Irresistibility Index for Leaders, a practical tool that helps people understand what makes them easier to trust, follow, buy from, and refer.
Meeting professionals hire Carolyn when they want a speaker who is safe, smart, engaging, and current. She brings high energy without fluff, business credibility without boredom, and audience interaction without losing control of the room. Her work is especially relevant for leadership conferences, sales meetings, association events, healthcare and biotech teams, accounting and financial professionals, executive groups, and organizations navigating change.
Carolyn has worked with associations, executive teams, sales organizations, and more than 100 CEO leadership groups. She is one of the top-rated Vistage speakers and has appeared on CBS, CNN, ABC, NBC, PBS, Food Network, Lifetime Television, and HSN. She is a former CEO, television personality, professional emcee, author, and active member of the Screen Actors Guild.
Her client list includes multiple retail industry giants and other Fortune 500 clients, including Macy's, Nordstrom, JC Penney, Toyota, Hanover Construction, ASI Show and Primedia Inc.
Carolyn speaks with audiences, not at them. Her programs are practical, funny, fast-moving, and deeply relevant to the challenges leaders face now.
Most requested programs include:
Reinventing Sales, Increase your Dollars Per Minute™
Reinventing Communication: Skills for Wicked Smart People™
Reinvention Leadership, How to Make You and Your Company Irresistible; Contains her propriatary "Irresistibility Index" for Leaders
Reinventing Execution: Get Work Done Without Killing Your People
When your audience needs more than motivation, Carolyn Strauss delivers the context, perspective, and results to help them think smarter, communicate better, adapt faster, and create measurable value.
Profitable Dollars Per Minute Strategies for High Stakes Sales Teams
In today's fast-paced, competitive landscape, standing out isn't just about having the best product or service, it's about being Irresistible. This engaging and actionable program introduces the 5 F's Framework designed to elevate how you and your company attract, engage, and retain clients.
Through this framework, you'll learn how to strengthen your sales fundamentals, create future-focused strategies, leverage the power of feedback, inject fun into your sales...
Managing People, Power and Priorities
Format: Leadership Programs and Executive Retreats
This program is perfect for:
- Highly Stressed Managers and CEO's
- Newly promoted Managers and Leaders
Most people 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 your priorities to effectively...
Optimize Communication Both Internal and External in Real Time
Format: This program can be 45 Minutes to 90 Minutes in Person or Virtual
This program is perfect for:
- Sales Teams, Leadership Teams, Management Teams
The audience will leave with:
- A list of words and phrases that they can use to get exactly what they need from any conversation.
- Strategies for setting the intention for...
Effective Execution: Get Work Done Without Killing Your People
As a leader, you request projects and outcomes; but what comes back is surprisingly not what you intentioned. 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?
Add to that,...
Sales: I Want That: How to Make You and Your Company Irresistible
Format: Keynote/ Masterclass
As a premier clothing designer on the Home Shopping Network, Carolyn Strauss sold more than $160 million worth of merchandise to people who never actually expressed interest in buying anything! In this dynamic program, Carolyn will share with you the secrets that enabled her to move viewers from a state of apathy, to desperately wanting the items she was selling. And you’ll learn how to apply these five secrets to every...
Communication Skills for Wicked Smart People
The difference between raising $0Million and $4Million is how good your presentation is. How good is your team's presentation? Carolyn can help your people present ideas in a way that is so compelling that the audience wants to hear more and take action. This is a hands on workshop that includes follow up consulting.
