Lori Greiner

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  • Shark on ABC’s 'Shark Tank'
  • Prolific Inventor, Entrepreneur, Producer and Humanitarian
  • Known as "The Warm-Blooded Shark" and "The Shark with a Heart"
  • International Bestselling Author of 'Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!'

Heralded as a legendary entrepreneur and inventor, Lori Greiner started with one idea and turned it into a multi-million-dollar international brand. Recognized as one of the most prolific inventors of retail products of our time, Lori has created and marketed over 1,000 products, holds 120 U.S. and international patents, and has a 90% success rate for new items launched. Lori is known for her impeccable negotiating skills and uncanny ability to know, identify, and launch emerging brands.

Lori is a leading Shark on ABC’s four-time Emmy-winning entrepreneurial business show, Shark Tank, where she invests in companies and helps turn peoples’ dreams into a reality. Lori has brought her engaging expertise on innovation, growth, and the world of business to groups including Verizon, Coldwell Banker, PayPal, IBM, Adobe, Chase, and many more.

At the heart of Lori’s success is the winning combination of her talent, hard work, and perseverance. A strong role model and true inspiration to many, she was honored with the Sherry Lansing "Woman of the Year" Award and by the Paley Center as an Important Woman in Television, listed as one of Success Magazine’s "Top 25 Personal and Professional Development Influencers to Follow," ranked by Business Insider Magazine as one of the "Top 30 Best Women Early-Stage Investors of 2023," and voted as a fan favorite on Shark Tank. Lori is a committed philanthropist and author of the international bestseller Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!. A force to be reckoned with in the business world and beyond, Lori delivers empowering insights and buzz-worthy takeaways, emboldening her audience to thrive in work and in life.

 



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Past Hosts Include:
  • Women Leaders Association
  • Verizon
  • Coldwell Banker
  • PayPal
  • IBM
  • Adobe
  • Chase
  • American Heart Association
  • Newell Rubbermaid
  • Atlas
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Lori’s ‘yes you can’ message and relatable stories engaged more than 1,800 women at our business banking events.

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How to Swim with the Sharks

Recognized as one of the most prolific inventors of retail products of our time, LORI GREINER is beloved as the “Shark with a Heart” on ABC’s Emmy-winning Shark Tank. An in-demand entrepreneurial advisor, Lori has the ability to know what are going to be the most successful products and businesses. ...

Recognized as one of the most prolific inventors of retail products of our time, LORI GREINER is beloved as the “Shark with a Heart” on ABC’s Emmy-winning Shark Tank. An in-demand entrepreneurial advisor, Lori has the ability to know what are going to be the most successful products and businesses. She has invested in and helped drive her Shark Tank companies to become 10 of the top 20 most successful products in Shark Tank history.

Sharing the hard-won lessons she’s learned, Lori’s talks inspire your audience to set ambitious goals, put in the work, and turn dreams into reality. Lori delivers sound advice, entertaining behind-the-scenes stories, and electrifies the room whether it’s an intimate leadership gathering or the opening keynote for your conference.

Career Insights from an Entrepreneurial Powerhouse

In this empowering talk, innovator LORI GREINER shines as a strong role model and true inspiration – offering career insights that will resonate with innovators at every stage of their journey. Sharing her personal stories, insider secrets, and concrete takeaways, Lori emboldens her audience to deve ...

In this empowering talk, innovator LORI GREINER shines as a strong role model and true inspiration – offering career insights that will resonate with innovators at every stage of their journey. Sharing her personal stories, insider secrets, and concrete takeaways, Lori emboldens her audience to develop their authentic leadership style, hone communication and emotional intelligence to build a great culture, and thrive in any environment. With Lori’s perspective, your group will feel ready to take charge of their own success.

Empowerment: You Can Make Anything Happen!

A strong role model and true inspiration to so many, LORI GREINER seeks to inspire her audience to follow in her footsteps and be successful in their own lives. At the heart of Lori’s success is the winning combination of her talent, hard work, and perseverance. This talk delves into her personal jo ...

A strong role model and true inspiration to so many, LORI GREINER seeks to inspire her audience to follow in her footsteps and be successful in their own lives. At the heart of Lori’s success is the winning combination of her talent, hard work, and perseverance. This talk delves into her personal journey through words of wisdom, funny anecdotes, and poignant commentary about the world of business. Lori ensures her talk will resonate with your audience by tailoring the focus to your unique business needs – whether the goal is to focus on customer satisfaction or building a strong team around you to power your success.

Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!

Drawing on the razor-sharp insights and practical, insider’s advice found in her internationally bestselling book Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!, LORI GREINER provides a behind-the-scenes perspective on how to bring an idea to profitable fruition. Sharing both inspiring anecdotes and concrete takeaway ...

Drawing on the razor-sharp insights and practical, insider’s advice found in her internationally bestselling book Invent It, Sell It, Bank It!, LORI GREINER provides a behind-the-scenes perspective on how to bring an idea to profitable fruition. Sharing both inspiring anecdotes and concrete takeaways, Lori leaves her audience emboldened to think like an innovative entrepreneur, master their ambition, and make their business a smashing success.

Interactive Event with Lori Greiner - An Intimate Lunch or Dinner

Everyone wants to spend intimate time with LORI GREINER – whether for sage advice, bouncing an idea off the prolific inventor and Shark, or fun conversation and Q&A. With every group, Lori is warm, personable, and engaging – and now she’s sharing this coveted opportunity with you. Delight your t ...

Everyone wants to spend intimate time with LORI GREINER – whether for sage advice, bouncing an idea off the prolific inventor and Shark, or fun conversation and Q&A. With every group, Lori is warm, personable, and engaging – and now she’s sharing this coveted opportunity with you. Delight your top VIPs, most valued clients, customers, or high-performing team members with an intimate lunch or dinner with Lori.

Lori will kick off the gathering with 15 minutes of opening remarks tailored to your group. She’ll spend a course at each table, engaging your chosen guests up close with her relatable and enlightening stories. Lively and fun conversation will be had, all the way through dessert! For ultimate flexibility, program a virtual cocktail party – smaller groups can talk with Lori while the full group enjoys wine or cocktails for the hour. This is a unique opportunity to delight and entertain, while sharing wisdom and experience in a setting that few have access to, and many pay big money to attain.

While Lori regularly offers this package for charity events – garnering the highest bids for this coveted winshe is opening this offering up for your audience. The offering is highly flexible; purchase a one-time engagement or a package of events in multiple major cities, for groups from 10 to 100 – it’s up to you. Reach out to HWA today to start planning this absolutely unique, entertaining, and intimate opportunity with Lori.

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<p><strong>An Intimate Evening with Lori Greiner</strong></p>

An Intimate Evening with Lori Greiner

Everyone wants to spend intimate time with LORI GREINER – whether for sage advice, bouncing an idea off the prolific inventor and Shark, or fun conversation and Q&A. With every group, Lori is warm, personable, and engaging – and now she’s sharing this coveted opportunity with you. Delight your top VIPs, most valued clients, customers, or high-performing team members with an intimate lunch or dinner with Lori.

Lori will kick off the gathering with 15 minutes of opening remarks tailored to your group. She’ll spend a course at each table, engaging your chosen guests up close with her relatable and enlightening stories. Lively and fun conversation will be had, all the way through dessert! For ultimate flexibility, program a virtual cocktail party – smaller groups can talk with Lori while the full group enjoys wine or cocktails for the hour. This is a unique opportunity to delight and entertain, while sharing wisdom and experience in a setting that few have access to, and many pay big money to attain.

While Lori regularly offers this package for charity events – garnering the highest bids for this coveted winshe is opening this offering up for your audience. The offering is highly flexible; purchase a one-time engagement or a package of events in multiple major cities, for groups from 10 to 100 – it’s up to you. Reach out to HWA today to start planning this absolutely unique, entertaining, and intimate opportunity with Lori.

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<p><strong>Prolific inventor and beloved Shark Lori Greiner will keynote a new, retailer-focused conference</strong></p>

Prolific inventor and beloved Shark Lori Greiner will keynote a new, retailer-focused conference

Heralded as “the Shark with a Heart” and one of the most prolific inventors of retail products ever, LORI GREINER is the perfect choice for the opening keynote of the new, retailer-focused conference Symposium ’24. Organized by The Plumb Club, JCK, and Jewelers Mutual, the two-day conference will feature renowned authorities on topics of business, marketing, products, and trends – headlined by the inimitable Lori Greiner. A self-made entrepreneur, Lori’s keynote will set the tone for the learning forum and feature her celebrated business lessons that resonate with leaders at every stage of their careers. Known for her negotiating prowess and uncanny ability to identify and launch emerging brands, no one is better qualified to kick off this inaugural event with the energy of innovation and success. As she does with all her events, Lori delivers a message of perseverance and empowerment – host Chase for Business raved, ”Lori’s ‘yes you can’ message and relatable stories engaged more than 1,800 women at our business banking events.”

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<p><strong>Lori on <em>Ellen</em></strong></p>

Lori on Ellen

Shark Tank star LORI GREINER has invested in products that collectively have over a billion dollars in retail sales, and she revealed to Ellen how she decides what to Invest in on Shark Tank. She also explained how she first became an inventor and shared one of the most successful products she's recently invested in on Shark Tank.

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<p><strong>The “Shark with a Heart” Lori Greiner shares business savvy perspective & career insights</strong></p>

The “Shark with a Heart” Lori Greiner shares business savvy perspective & career insights

Heralded as a legendary entrepreneur and inventor, LORI GREINER started with one idea and turned it into a multi-million-dollar international brand. With over a thousand inventions and 120 patents to her name, Lori is known for her uncanny ability to instantly tell if a product is a “hero or a zero” – and her 90% success rate on new products is proof. Lori is beloved as “the Shark with a Heart” on ABC’s Shark Tank, the four-time Emmy-winning entrepreneurial juggernaut. Lori brings her remarkable story and wide-ranging business experience to life, offering career insights that will resonate with innovators at every stage of their journey. Lori leaves every audience emboldened to think like an innovative leader, sharing the tools to take their success to the next level. The Women Leaders Association raved, “Lori was wonderful, and everything went really well. The conversation was very insightful, and the attendees had such a positive response! Looking forward to working on more events together!”

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<p><strong>Lori Greiner's international bestseller is a must-read guide to business success</strong></p>

Lori Greiner's international bestseller is a must-read guide to business success

Wildly popular and filled with practical, insider's advice, LORI GREINER's international bestseller Invent It, Sell It, Bank It! topped both Amazon's and Wall Street Journal's Best Business Book lists. Invent It, Sell It, Bank It! is a hands-on, nuts-and-bolts guide to getting a new product or company off the ground and making it a success. With a 90% success rate for over a thousand new products and offerings, no one is more qualified to share truly bankable advice on how to take your idea from a dream to a reality. Lori’s business lessons continue to resonate, with Inc. profiling the three counterintuitive business strategies that made her a multimillionaire. Sharing both inspiring anecdotes and concrete takeaways, Lori leaves her audience emboldened to think like an innovative entrepreneur, master their ambition, and make their business idea a smashing success.

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Entrepreneur

Lori is a star Shark on the 4x Emmy Award winning and 10x Critic’s Choice Award winning show, Shark Tank. Shark Tank is a hit entrepreneurial business show on ABC, where she invests in companies and helps turn people’s dreams into a reality.

Well known as one of the most prolific inventors of retail products of our time, Lori started with one idea and turned it into a multi-million dollar international brand. She has created & marketed over 1,000 successful products and holds 120 US and International patents.

Her accomplishments come from her sharp instincts and strong business sense. Well known for telling instantly if a product is a “hero or a zero,” she has a 90% success rate on new items launched.

She is hands-on in all facets of taking a product from concept to creation, to market within months in lightning speed. She oversees the legal and patent processes, and has driven her business to the success it has achieved.

She’s also well known for her impeccable negotiating skills and her uncanny ability to know and identify emerging brands and people and invest in them. She has helped many budding entrepreneurs turn their ideas into hit products and has 10 of the top 20 most successful companies on Shark Tank to date.

A strong role model and true inspiration to so many, she was honored with the Sherry Lansing "Woman of the Year" Award and by the Paley Center as an Important Woman in Television, listed as one of Success Magazine’s "Top 25 Personal and Professional Development Influencers to Follow," ranked by Business Insider Magazine as one of the "Top 30 Best Women Early-Stage Investors of 2023" and voted as a fan favorite on Shark Tank.

Inventor

She is known for creating a diversity of products that help make people’s lives easier, whether it be must have clever and unique organizers for the home, kitchen gadgets, tech and travel solutions or the most popular jewelry and cosmetic organizers of all time. Lori’s products are enjoyed by men and women alike.

Her inspiration comes from her passion to bring happiness to people by making their everyday lives easier and always striving to do that at an affordable price, so that her products could be enjoyed by all.

Producer

Throughout her career, Lori has always been a maverick.

Having written, produced, directed and edited hundreds of videos and written scripted works – she became expert at how to grab someone’s attention visually within seconds.

She started her new production company Good Place Entertainment to expand her talents in the film, video, and television arenas. Exciting things coming!

Humanitarian

A great believer that “if you are lucky enough to be successful, you have a responsibility to give back,” Lori is well known for giving back to the community. Living more simply than others in her position and not nearly as wealthy as the un-factual internet states, she is known as a kind hearted humanitarian. She and her company annually donate a substantial amount of their profits to a diverse variety of charities.

From sponsoring full-ride, 4-year scholarships to college for underprivileged women, programs to uplift and encourage our youth, or supporting first responders and health care workers and everyday heroes to name a few. Many of her most gratifying moments have come when she has been able to help budding entrepreneurs achieve the same success she feels lucky enough to have enjoyed.

Lori’s Book: Invent it! Sell it! Bank it!

Do you want to . . .

• Become your own boss
• Make your first million
• Achieve financial freedom?

Lori will show you how!

In an effort to “pay it forward,” Lori wrote her first book, Invent It, Sell It, Bank It (Random House, 2014). The book was a National Best Seller, was named one of the top 10 business books by Amazon.com, and made Wall Street Journal’s top business books of 2014.

Invent It, Sell It, Bank It is a hands-on, nuts and bolts, step-by-step guide on how to turn an idea into a million dollar reality. This book shows you how to take your idea from concept to prototype, market research to manufacturing, patents and trademarks, retail & TV sales, funding & more! Another part of the book’s tremendous popularity are the personal stories Lori shares and exclusive behind-the-scenes about her journey.

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