Karen B. Ford has led a rich life. She has spent years on personal development and now works to build leaders and help others to live beyond their potential. Karen’s accomplishments include:

• Motivational teacher for more than 18 years
• Nearly two decades as a top-ranked sales leader in a direct sales organization
• Ten years as a teacher
• Mentored more than 25,000 sales people
• Spoken before more than 500,000 people
• Nominated and approved for the 1995-1996 Who’s Who of American Business Women.
• Featured in Dr. John C. Maxwell’s book, “Thinking for a Change.”
• Worked with Dr. Maxwell for a year as he presented “Reality Leadership 2002.”
• Recently released her first book “Free to be Beautiful – Eleven Ordinary Principles for an Extraordinary Life.”
• Married to David for 32 years.
• Mother of two – Alison, 23 and Justin, 18.

Karen has a passion to empower people to discover their potential and achieve new levels of excellence in their lives. As one of her company’s top executives, Karen leads over 2,500 women in her own organization and provides training and mentoring throughout the U.S. In 1996, she was listed in Who’s Who of American Businesswomen, and today Karen is one of 180 National Sales Directors— with a company of 1.1 million representatives.

With a background in both education and business, she is an inspirational and motivational speaker, teacher, and sales trainer.