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.
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.
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
Kathleen Black Speaking Testimonials
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