Get Better at Sales. Get Better at EVERYTHING
Every conversation is a sales conversation.
Carole Mahoney gives leaders, managers, entrepreneurs, and driven humans the behavioral science and real-world skills to win more of them and design a life they actually chose.
When that happens, sales teams hit 2-3X their quotas, cultures change, retention increases, and new leaders emerge.
Trusted by sales teams, leadership teams, and Harvard MBA students. Because the skills are the same.
HOW CAROLE IS IMPACTING THE SALES INDUSTRY:
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Named ◆ One Of The Top Sales Influencers To Follow In 2020 ◆ 2023 Top Sales Voice ◆ 2024 Top Direct Sales Voice
By Linkedin.

Sales Coach
For The Harvard Entrepreneurial
MBA Program.

Top Sales Coach
By Ambition.

A Sales Leader
To Watch By
Sales Hacker.
You've been selling your whole life.
You just didn't know it.
Ask a room full of people to raise their hand if they think of themselves as a salesperson. Almost no one moves. But ask those same people if they've ever tried to motivate a team, negotiate a raise, get a teenager off their phone, or pitch an idea they believed in and every hand goes up.
We're all selling. Every single day. The question isn't whether you sell. It's whether you're any good at it.
The skills of great salespeople deep listening, curious questioning, collaborative problem-solving, resilient mindset are the same skills that determine the quality of your leadership, your relationships, and your life. Carole just helps you stop avoiding them.
The framework behind every transformation.
Carole's work isn't built on tactics that work until they don't. It's built on three interconnected truths about what's real, what drives behavior, and what becomes possible when both change.
How it Works

“We implemented 95% of her recommendations and reorganized our sales teams. Four months after implementing the plan, we began seeing double-digit growth. The past three quarters, the team grew 17%, 19% and 23%. Without a doubt, Carole’s analysis and recommendations served as the catalyst.”
REGINA MANFREDI
President, NORAM Region Software One

“Carole knows how to make her subject (which involved a lot of interesting data!) come alive with humor and insight. I was impressed by how she instantly grabbed the audience and kept their attention and gave us so many useful takeaways.”
TINA LOSASSO

“Carole was not only prepared, she was engaging, delivered valuable insights, and helped set the tone for an amazing afternoon of speakers. I’d highly recommend Carole as a speaker.”
LORI RICHARDSON
Author of She Sells

“Carole Mahoney made our event better! She moderated, she spoke, she sang, she connected, she educated, she entertained. What can’t this amazing woman do? Thank you Carole for helping us hit exactly the right note with our event culture, keeping the show moving, and lending your boundless expertise. You can’t go wrong hiring Carole as a coach, a speaker, a facilitator, or moderator. Lucky you if you can!”
LAUREN BAILEY
Founder of Factor 8 and #GirlsClub

“Carole Mahoney emcee’d the annual AA-ISP Leadership Summit this week in Chicago. She was simply outstanding! She was funny, relevant and hosted several panels sharing her own expertise along the way. She was always engaging with the audience and fit perfectly into the AA-ISP culture and mission. She was so good that we already asked Carole to consider emceeing next year! She’s a superstar!”
BOB PERKINS
Board Member - Emblaze

“I heard Carole speak about sales management at HubSpot and felt like she was talking directly to me. She was describing everything I was dealing with as the head of sales of a growing startup to a tee!”
KATIE LAWRENCE
Vice President of Global Sales - Leoforce
Perfect for in-person
and virtual events
Now more than ever, especially with unpredictable job and sales markets, hard choices feel more high-stakes. Carole helps audiences listen with intention, ensuring that conversations serve sales professionals and buyers not just for the short-term, but long-term, too.
This isn't just better sales. It's a better life.
The clients who come to Carole frustrated and stuck leave with something most professional development programs don't deliver: A different version of themselves.
Not just better at closing deals or leading meetings better at the hard conversations with their kids, better at showing up for the people they love, better at dreaming bigger than they thought they were allowed to.
Real change doesn't stay in one lane.
When you grow, everything grows with you.
"I didn't set out to change how the world sells. I set out to stop sliding down an icy hill."
Carole Mahoney started her business at the height of the Great Recession with three mortgages, two kids, almost no savings, and six months to figure it out. She replaced her salary in six. But the business she built wasn't the life she wanted. She was stressed, overworked, and had become the exact thing she hated: a pushy, desperate salesperson.
The moment she stopped trying to learn better tactics and started trying to become a better person, everything changed. Not just her sales, but her relationships. Her leadership. Her life. And when client after client reported the same thing; marriages repaired, teenagers who started talking again, cultures that transformed, she knew she had something bigger than a sales framework.
Today Carole is the author of Buyer First™, a sales coach for Harvard Entrepreneurial MBA students, and a keynote speaker whose data-backed approach, grounded in behavioral science and tested against results from 2.4 million sales professionals, has earned her recognition as a top sales influencer, a top sales coach, and the person her clients call "the sales therapist." Not because she's soft. Because she goes deeper than anyone else.
I believe nobody has to settle for the life that happens to them. That's not a motivational line. That's what I built my entire body of work to prove."
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THE PERFORMANCE THAT WILL CHANGE YOU, YOUR RELATIONSHIPS, AND YOUR RESULTS.
Provide the most memorable “aha” moment of the event, and book Carole for your next speaking engagement.
She is currently booking both keynote and corporate workshops.
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