Kathleen Black

Keynote Speaker | Toronto, Ontario

Bestselling Author, Founder & CEO
Real Estate Team Coaching and Business Growth Expert

Kathleen Black's Expertise: Resilience & Adversity, Resilience & Change, Stress Management, Change Management, Burnout Prevention, Organizational Change, Mental Health, Health & Wellness, Leadership, Business Growth and Bestselling Writers & Authors.

Kathleen Black

About Speaker Kathleen Black

Kathleen Black is the Founder and CEO of Kathleen Black International, North America’s leading female-founded real estate coaching platform and the #1 team coaching company in Canada. For more than 18 years, she has helped elite leaders and high performance teams scale through proven systems, mindset mastery, and operational clarity contributing to over $30 billion in growth in the past decade. A two-time bestselling author and award-winning keynote speaker, Kathleen’s work develops leaders by building high performance teams and applying team systems to both organizations and elite individual entrepreneurs. Her leadership journey is featured in the award-winning documentary The Relentless One.

SHIFT: From Chaos to Calm the Keynote Experience

SHIFT: From Chaos to Calm the Keynote Experience

Kathleen Black Biography

Kathleen Black is the CEO and founder of Kathleen Black International, North America’s premier female-founded real estate team coaching and training platform and the #1 team coaching company in Canada. Her client network generates billions in additional sales annually, contributing to over $30 billion in growth in the past decade, with more than 80% of clients ranked among the top 1% producers in their industries.

A two-time bestselling author of Relentless to Rise and The Top 1% Life, Kathleen is known for helping entrepreneurs and leaders step fully into the CEO role of their lives and businesses. Through her proprietary expansion frameworks and systems-driven methodology, she enables leaders to scale with clarity, sustainability, and freedom often at a fraction of the time and cost of traditional growth models.

Guided by values of integrity, honesty, and results, Kathleen’s leadership journey is featured in the award-winning documentary The Relentless One, which has received three Telly Awards, two Emmy Award nominations, and 19 international film festival awards.

Kathleen has earned numerous industry accolades, including recognition as one of the Top 10 Transformational CEOs and Top 100 Dynamic Leaders of 2023 by Exeleon. She has twice been named one of the Top 50 Elite Women Driving the Future of Real Estate by REP Magazine and a Top 20 Emerging Leader in the Swanepoel Report. With more than 18 years of leadership, strategy, and expansion experience, Kathleen has helped tens of thousands of leaders achieve unprecedented growth.

Kathleen is the visionary behind the Kathleen Black Summit, the largest team-specific sales summit in North America, and a highly sought-after keynote speaker at leading global conferences. Her insights and work have been featured in Forbes, Success, Entrepreneur, NBC, CTV, ABC, and more.

Most recently, Kathleen co-launched FoundHers, a leadership show spotlighting Canada’s top female founders, alongside her partner Jane Thuet, further advancing her mission to elevate conscious, high-performance leadership.

With a deep belief that success should feel grounded and sustainable, Kathleen’s work continues to redefine what it means to lead, scale, and perform at the highest level. She is based in Oshawa, Canada, where she lives with her children, Ethan and Ella, and her partner Jane.

Kathleen Black Topic Presentations

Kathleen Black From Toronto, 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.

Shift from Chaos to Calm: Creating Success for Successful People

Relentless: Authenticity, Rebellion, and Rising Against the Odds

Shift & Thrive

Books
Kathleen Black
  • The Top 1% Life: Shift from Chaos to Calm in Your Business & Life
  • Relentless to Rise: Your Path to Personal Expansion
Podcasts
Kathleen Black
  • 25,000 Coaching Hours | How Kathleen Black Became a Top Real Estate Coach!
  • In the Vault with the Kate Broddick Team: Episode 21: Kathleen Black
  • Kathleen Black on Shifting from Chaos to Calm and Ego to Conscious
  • Kathleen Black on Minimum Standards to Reach Summits
Articles
Kathleen Black
  • The Relentless One Chronicles Kathleen Black’s Story
  • Business as Usual is a Thing of the Past
  • Director M. Douglas Silverstein and Kathleen Black Speak on Their Documentary, “the Relentless
  • Think like a CEO to Become a High Performer

Kathleen Black Speaking Testimonials

"Loved, LOVED your keynote presentation Kathleen Black. Best I’ve seen in a long time. Well done."

Laura Monroe

Global Head of Community
Inman

"When I first heard about Kathleen Black and her story, I was intrigued and then had to convince her to let me make a film about her journey. I wanted to explore her many challenges, including witnessing domestic violence, being forcibly hospitalized for observation, being kicked out of her house in high school, and other obstacles that shaped who she is today. It makes sense that she now helps others find security and stability in their lives. Her story is about a single woman who refused to give up, avoided mediocrity, and earned every step of her success. Kathleen Black truly is “The Relentless One.”"

M. Douglas Silverstein

EMMY Winning Director

"Kathleen Black model challenges you to re-examine what is your best life, focus on your genius, and leverage the rest. I really did not think it was possible to work in this industry and have both a successful real estate team and a home life. Using Kathleen’s model, I have come leaps and bounds. I wish I’d had this information many years ago.  "

Stacey Falkwin

National Top 1% Producer
Team Lead of Falkwin Group

"So this is brilliant. A lot of what I learn and read I have already learned…This is new. I love how you expand minds Kathleen Black. Thank you."

Catharine Inniss

REALTOR
Johnston and Daniel Rushbrooke

"I swear Kathleen Black was speaking straight to me about chaos, calm, and success. Saving this gem: women do 3x more work outside the workplace and accept help in the workplace 50% less than men. Very thought provoking talk."

Evan and Ash Pedone

Real Estate Team
Tampa Bay

"Thanks Kathleen Black for the enlightening talk. Did a lot of self reflection and now have a road map to scale and also communicate better with my kids!"

Kelvin Kam

Founder
Sequoia Real Estate

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