Danielle Kennedy Bio
Hiring a speaker is a big responsibility. If you choose the wrong one for your next important event, your colleagues will never forgive you. Danielle Kennedy is a speaker who will not let you down. When it comes to both business and life experiences, she has walked the talk. Her presentation is dynamic, entertaining, and story-driven. But her stories and experiences are interlaced with facts, valuable lessons and insights that will dramatically increase your company’s bottom line and improve individual outlooks and attitudes. No one knows more about balancing a family and multiple careers than Danielle Kennedy. Each stage of her incredible career has taken her to new challenges.
Stage #1: While raising 5 children, Danielle became one of the leading commissioned real estate salespeople in the United States. All of her business was self-generated through door-knocking, cold calling and building an army of past customer referrals. In the midst of building her business, she wrote her first best-selling book How To List and Sell Real Estate (30th Anniversary Edition releases in March, 2010). This “bible” of real estate has sold in excess of one million copies. It specifically teaches salespeople how to build a successful business, no matter what challenges the real estate economy presents. After she became an award-winning saleswoman (top 1% in the nation) she started her own company which maintained 30% market share for 5 years running. She sold that company to her partners and then moved into the training and speaking business. At age 40 she gave birth to her 6th child.
Stage #2: Kennedy builds Danielle Kennedy Productions, a sales training company that has taken her all over the world presenting keynote speeches, seminars and consulting sessions during the last 20 years. During this time of her life she went back to school and received her Masters degree in Professional Writing at the University of Southern California. She has continued to author 6 more books which include: Seven Figure Selling and WorkingMoms. Calm - How Smart Women Balance Family and Career. (See Books) Her training products are available on cds , dvds, and downloads on the internet. Today thousands of salespeople in many industries have invested in her training materials, mastering her powerful how to's to improve their business. All of her methods are based on her vast history of experiences in sales, leadership/management and balancing a very large family life. It is not hyperbole. She walks the talk.
Stage #3: Danielle continues to deliver keynote speeches, seminars and has added consulting to her services provided through Danielle Kennedy Productions. Her consulting work takes her to specific companies on a quarterly basis over a period of one or two years. These companies report outstanding results in their sales teams’ overall productivity. Her educational background in theatre, communication and writing make her the ideal presenter for your next meeting. She is also an actress who consistently appears on stage and screen. She has been inducted into the National Speakers Association Hall of Fame, The Sales and Marketing Executives Hall of Fame, named “Ambassador of Free Enterprise” for The Sales and Marketing Executives, was voted in the top 25 most influential people in real estate in 2008, and in 2009 was nominated for an Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award for outstanding performance in a play.
Danielle Kennedy Real Estate Bio
Danielle Kennedy is a real estate sales legend. By the fourth year of her career she closed 105 homes, while raising a family of five children under the age of 12. She kept this phenomenal sales record for two decades. She also met the broker-owner challenge, managing 3 highly successful real estate offices in southern California. Her company captured 30% of the market share.
Currently Kennedy is president of Danielle Kennedy Productions, a renowned motivational speaker, sales trainer and consultant. She has authored the most important sales and personal development books available in the sales industry today. To name a few:
- How To List And Sell Real Estate: Executing The Basics for Higher Profits (2002 Southwest/Thomson Learning)
- Double Your Income in Real Estate Sales (Career Press)
- Seven Figure Selling (2002 Southwest Thomson Learning)
- Working Moms. How smart women balance family and career (2002 Southwest Thomson Learning).
She has a bachelors degree in Business Communication, a masters degree in professional writing, and an honorary doctorate in humanities.
- She was inducted into the National Speakers Association Hall of Fame
- The Sales and Marketing Executives International Hall of Fame
- Voted The Ambassador of Free Enterprise for SMEI.
- In 2008 Kennedy was voted one of the top 25 most influential women in real estate in the U.S.
Kennedy resides with her husband in Newport Beach and The Pacific Palisades, California. They are the parents of 8 children and 5 grandchildren.
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Danielle Kennedy Résumé
Expert in Self-Help Field with 30 years experience as published author, researcher, columnist, speaker, consultant, cable television host, and actor.
Summary of Qualifications
Authored 7 books that included extensive research in human interest stories with an emphasis on self-made success stories and women balancing challenges of family and career.
- Wrote, produced and directed an extensive training library for multiple sales industries.
- Internationally known public speaker travelling to 50 states and abroad covering subjects such as enhancing motivation and improving personal productivity.
- Consultant to Fortune 500 Companies in the area of sales and motivation.
- Creator of The Women Who Win Tour (Australia and South Africa) sponsored by Cosmopolitian Magazine.
- Creator of The Get Real Show—a theatrical keynote performance—customized for Industrials.
- Professional stage and screen actor specializing in character roles.
Professional Experience
Danielle Kennedy Productions 1980-Present
- Marketing Danielle Kennedy to companies worldwide. Booking an average of 100 speeches per year, including both keynote addresses and motivational and business development seminars with an emphasis on sales teams.
- Authored 7 books. Currently published books include: Seven Figure Selling (Thomson/Southwest Publishing), WorkingMoms.Calm—How Smart Women Balance Family and Career, How To List And Sell Real Estate.
- Managed a 7 person marketing team initiating campaigns, promotions, and business development in key market segments.
Additional Employment
- Company of Fools Theatre Company 1996-2003
- Company actor in 12 productions.
- Board President managing a half million dollar budget for not-for-profit theatre in Hailey, Idaho.
- The Community School, Sun Valley, Idaho 2001-2003
- Specialty drama teacher-grades1-5
Professional Affiliations and Recognition
- Screen Actors Guild
- National Speakers Association
- Speakers Hall of Fame: National Speakers Association
- Sales and Marketing Executives International 1993 Hall of Fame
- 1993 Ambassador of Free Enterprise—Sales And Marketing Executives International
- Received Honorary Doctorate in Humanities 1990 Clarke College as commencement speaker.
- Top 25 Most Influential Women in Business 2008
Education
- Masters Professional Writing: University of Southern California
- Bachelors in Speech and Drama: Clarke College (Dubuque, Ia.)