Keynote Speakers for Sales, Leadership & Corporate Events | WSJ Bestselling Authors | USC Professors
Colin Coggins & Garrett Brown have spent the last decade studying one question: What makes top performers actually think differently?
As Wall Street Journal bestselling authors and USC mindset professors, they share those insights through keynote presentations at sales kickoffs, leadership conferences, and corporate events around the world. Their research-backed approach - captured in their book The Unsold Mindset - helps teams transform how they think about sales, leadership, communication, influence, and performance with an emphasis on the human skills that are more important than ever in the Age of AI.
Companies like Google, Microsoft, and Adobe bring Colin and Garrett back because the mindset shifts stick long after the event ends.
Work With Colin & Garrett
Speaking
From SKOs to leadership offsites to company-wide events, Colin & Garrett deliver high-energy keynotes that change how teams think about performance, influence, and success.
Companies like Google, Microsoft, and Adobe bring them back because the frameworks stick.
Colin & Garrett's calendar typically fills 3-6 months in advance. Planning ahead? Connect early.
The Unsold Mindset
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller
Whether you call it leading, teaching, motivating, inspiring, or something else entirely, every day, no matter what you do for a living, you're selling. Sometimes you're selling yourself, sometimes it's your ideas, sometimes it's other people's ideas, and sometimes it's products and services. Understanding how to move people authentically is a critical, life-changing skill.
Through decades of experience, detailed research, and extensive interviews with some of the greatest leaders and sellers on the planet—from entrepreneurs and executives to artists, chefs, generals, and celebrities—Colin Coggins & Garrett Brown have uncovered what makes these people special.
Surprisingly, it's not what they do. It's what they think.
Workshops, Classes, & Consulting
Colin & Garrett offer a host of opportunities to work with companies and individuals.
Drawing from their experience leading teams, teaching students, advising entrepreneurs, and collaborating with sales, marketing, leadership, and executive teams, they've worked with companies of all sizes in many formats.
Options include:
One-day training programs and multi-day learning events
Advisory board participation and team coaching
Long-term consulting projects focused on specific objectives
There are lots of ways to bring their knowledge and energy to your organization.
Trusted by Hundreds of Leading Organizations
Colin Coggins and Garrett Brown are adjunct professors of entrepreneurship at USC's Marshall School of Business where they teach the popular class they created, "Sales Mindset for Entrepreneurs." They are also authors, speakers, executives, and best friends who met while working at enterprise software startup Bitium, which they helped lead to an acquisition by Google. They first connected over their shared obsession with the mindset of great sellers and leaders, and have made it their mission to uncover the unexpected and inspiring mindset of the highest achievers on the planet and share it with others.
In spite of their similarities, they're also very different from each other. One personifies logic, the other emotion. One is a clear extrovert, the other takes some time to get warmed up in front of an audience. It's in those dissimilarities that students, audiences, and readers start to recognize one of the most important pillars of the Unsold Mindset:
There isn't one right way to succeed, in life or in business.