Colleen Francis

Keynote Speaker | Ottawa, Ontario

Customer Service
Sales and Business Expert

Colleen Francis Expertise Business & Corporate, Business Growth, Customer Service & Experience, Business Management, Employee Management, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Leadership Development and Sales.

Colleen Francis

About Colleen Francis

Colleen Francis is an internationally recognized sales leader, sales expert, and bestselling author who helps organizations achieve measurable results through modern sales strategies. With more than twenty years in business sales, she guides teams to increase revenue, build strong client relationships, and work with greater efficiency. She has advised many leading companies and is ranked as LinkedIn’s number one Sales Influencer and a Top Voice. Colleen Francis is in the Canadian Speaking Hall of Fame, is a past President of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, and wrote Right on the Money, Nonstop Sales Boom, and Honesty Sells.

Colleen Francis Videos

Keynote Speaker - Farm Bureau Financial Services

Why Your Buyer is Outperforming You and How You Can Catch up and Pass

Mdrt Experience with Colleen Francis: Instant Leverage, Power Profits

Colleen Francis of Engage Selling in Action

Getting Referrals That Close

Colleen Francis Interviews & Podcasts

What Your Sales Team Need to Do Right Now with Colleen Francis

Colleen Francis: Sales Trainer

New Way of Selling with Colleen Francis

Colleen Francis (#1 Sales Influencer on Linkedin)

Testimonials: Get Quality over Quality: Colleen Francis

COLLEEN FRANCIS BIOGRAPHY

Colleen Francis is an internationally recognized sales leader, bestselling author, and expert on driving measurable results through modern sales strategies. With more than two decades of hands-on experience in business-to-business sales, she understands how markets have evolved and what it takes for teams to succeed in a fast-changing environment.

Colleen Francis has built her career helping organizations increase revenue, improve productivity, and strengthen client relationships through proven, practical systems that work. She believes that traditional sales techniques no longer meet the demands of today’s business environment and that success now depends on agility, adaptability, and customer-centric strategies.

Over the past 20 years, Colleen Francis has worked with leading companies such as Chevron, John Deere, NCR, Trend Micro, Merck, Abbott, Experian, Royal Bank, Mosaic, and Dow. Her approach helps organizations build a strong sales DNA that aligns leadership, strategy, and execution toward common performance goals.

Colleen Francis’s clients consistently note her direct, data-driven, and no-nonsense style that accelerates growth while reducing effort and increasing profit. Her programs are known for delivering immediate, sustainable results and are customized to address the specific challenges of each organization she works with.

A respected thought leader in her field, Colleen Francis has been named LinkedIn’s #1 Sales Influencer and recognized among the platform’s Top Voices for her insights on sales excellence and leadership. She has been inducted into the Canadian Speaking Hall of Fame and has served as President of the Canadian Association of Professional Speakers, underscoring her influence and leadership in the professional speaking industry.

Colleen Francis is the bestselling author of Right on the Money: New Principles for Bold Growth, a guide for achieving sales success in a volatile and unpredictable marketplace. Her earlier works, Nonstop Sales Boom and Honesty Sells, continue to be referenced by professionals seeking to build consistent and ethical sales results.

She is also the founder of a consulting agency, recognized by Sales and Marketing Magazine as one of the top five most effective sales training organizations in the market.

Colleen Francis has been featured as a keynote speaker at global conferences including Dreamforce, MDRT Experience, and Farm Bureau Financial Services, where she delivers insights on sales transformation, leadership, and client engagement.

Her research and expertise have been widely cited across leading business publications, reinforcing her reputation as a trusted voice in sales leadership.

Through her work, Colleen Francis continues to guide organizations toward achieving 100 percent quota attainment and long-term profitability by equipping teams with the tools to adapt, compete, and win in today’s marketplace.

 

Colleen Francis Topic Presentations

Colleen Francis Ottawa, Ontario, Canada delivers keynote presentations, workshops, fireside chats, moderated Q&A, and other presentation formats on a wide variety of topics. Each presentation is unique, customized and tailored for audiences, industries, conferences and event formats.

Creating a Nonstop Sales Boom: Putting an End to Boom and Bust Sales Cycles

Right on the Money: Your Best Opportunity for Success is Right in Front of You

Colleen Francis Books & Articles

Right on the Money: New Principles for Bold Growth
Right on the Money: New Principles for Bold

Right on the Money offers a compelling blueprint to understand and win over today’s buyers. It also offers a wealth of field-tested,...

Nonstop Sales Boom: Powerful Strategies to Drive Consistent Growth Year After Year
Nonstop Sales Boom: Powerful Strategies to Drive

Nonstop Sales Boom explains how to break this unhealthy cycle and achieve strong, steady results--every quarter, from every member of the...

Honesty Sells: How to Make More Money and Increase Business Profits
Honesty Sells: How to Make More Money and

Looking for an edge in today's tough selling market? Honesty Sells challenges you to abandon clichéd sales techniques that rely on...

Colleen Francis Speaking Testimonials

"I am 269% above my numbers from last year thanks to the concepts, actions plans and motivation.  "

Jennifer Krueger

Director
Global Corporate Challenge

"Thanks to the process we built with Colleen’s insight, I have a system now that confidently delivers an 80% closing rate on new contracts.  "

Scott Kinnser

VP of Sales
Kinnser Software

"Thank you so much for the inspirational session. I have 4 new clients in just a week’s time! Hip Hip Hooray!  "

Nancy Daniels

HelmsBriscoe

"Colleen’s vibrant personality lights up a room. Having done her homework on our organization prior to meeting with the group, she was able to apply her principles to relevant sales scenarios we’re facing. The entire sales group is better equipped with a handful of valuable learnings to apply to our account base. What’s more, we all still continue to find ourselves rehashing and applying her insights… six months later!  "

Marketing Manager
SupremeX

"I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for the very informative and refreshing sales strategies you presented. I gained some new knowledge and was reminded of a few things I had forgotten over time. I think virtually any business could benefit from your common-sense approach to sales.  "

Business Development
Orion Software

"Colleen Francis presentation kicked off the conference and kept 130+ sales & marketing professionals entertained and enlightened. The response has been positive as the team appreciated hearing Colleen’s perspective. Thank you for contributing to a very successful conference!  "

Senior Director of Sales
Hard Rock International

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