Cara Brookins Speaking Fee: $10,000 to $20,000
Travels From:
LIT - Little Rock, AR
Primary Topic Category:
Creativity and Innovation
Cara Brookins Speaker Profile: At A Glance
Cara Brookins is best known as the mom who built her own house with her kids using YouTube Tutorials. With her eager construction crew consisting of her four young children, Brookins laid the block, framed the walls, and even ran the plumbing and gas lines for her two-story house. She shared her story in her #1 best-selling memoir Rise: How a House Built a Family. Now an international speaker and author, Cara’s incredible story went viral amassing more than two billion views in over 100 countries.
Cara Brookins is an internationally acclaimed keynote speaker, #1 best-selling author of nine books, and renowned thought leader in the science of motivation. Her actionable strategies empower audiences worldwide to overcome odds that seem insurmountable and thrive in any situation.
Brookins is best known as the mom who built her own house with her kids using YouTube Tutorials. With her eager construction crew consisting of her four young children, Brookins laid the block, framed the walls, and even ran the plumbing and gas lines for her 3,500 square foot house. She shared her story in her #1 best-selling memoir Rise: How a House Built a Family.
Brookins’ incredible story went viral amassing more than two billion views in over 100 countries in two weeks’ time. Media outlets including The New York Times, The Today Show, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, NBC, CBS News, USA Today, TIME, TLC, ABC News, BBC, Fox News Insider, People Magazine, and CNN have featured Cara's compelling journey, and it’s been optioned for film, television, and reality television.
With two decades of experience working as a senior software analyst and no construction experience, Brookins was the least likely person to build anything—let alone a house. The idea that ordinary people can do extraordinary things is a constant in her work, including her latest self-help book Unstuck: End Procrastination Using The Ancient Psychology Behind How-To Videos and is why she was inducted as a member of the prestigious Society for the Science of Motivation and the National Speaker Association.
Told through stories on her unconventional family construction site, Brookins’ entertaining keynotes reveal proven strategies to overcome odds that seem insurmountable. Brookins has shared her motivation strategies with the world’s most respected organizations, including Walmart, Google, Kimberly Clark, YouTube, CenturyLink, Artemis, US Law Network, Lincoln Financial Group, Capital One, and many more. She also works with the United Nations in her role as a United Nations Association Advocate to raise awareness of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Related Speakers
Slava Rubin
Founder of Indiegogo
Slava Rubin is the CEO and co-founder of Indiegogo, a company dedicated to revolutionizing the way that people fund what matters to them, and has led the organization to becoming the largest crowdfunding platform in the world. Slava represented the crowdfunding industry at the White House during the signing of the JOBS Act and has helped navigate bringing equity crowdfunding to the American public. He also pioneered security tokens in the the United States.
Melissa Schilling
Innovation Scholar and Professor
Melissa Schilling holds the John Herzog Family chair in management and organizations at NYU Stern. She is one of the world’s leading experts on innovation. Melissa's research focuses on innovation and strategy in high technology industries such as smartphones, videogames, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, electric vehicles, and renewable energies. Her research in innovation and strategy has earned her awards such as the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, and the Best Paper in Management Science and Organization Science for 2007 Award.
Susan Robertson
Change Agent, Innovation Strategist, Harvard Instructor
Susan Robertson empowers individuals, teams, and organizations to more nimbly respond to change, by transforming thinking from “why we can’t” to “how might we?” She is an innovation and creative thinking expert with over 20 years of experience speaking, consulting, and coaching -- across the US and around the world. As an instructor at Harvard, Susan brings a scientific foundation to enhancing human creativity. In her corporate career, Susan managed new product development for Fortune 500 companies like Pepsico, Glaxo Smith Kline, and Fruit of the Loom.
Terry Jones
Founder of two billion dollar startups (Kayak & Travelocity), Author, Venture Capitalist
Terry Jones, Founder of two billion dollar startups (Kayak & Travelocity) Author, Venture Capitalist.
Phil Hansen
Multimedia Artist, Speaker, Author and Innovator
Referred to by his fans as "the Artist for the People", Phil Hansen is an internationally recognized multimedia artist, speaker, author and innovator -- at the forefront of bringing art to a wider audience. Crashing irreverently through conventional boundaries, Phil works at the intersection of traditional art, electronic media, offbeat materials, and interactive experiences. He is most widely known for his meta-art, videos that document the creation process, showing millions that art is action.
Nancy Rademaker
Customer Centricity & Technology Expert
With over 20 years of experience in IT and training at Microsoft in The Netherlands, Nancy Rademaker shares how technology influences our behavior, how it helps us share knowledge, and how it enables us to create and innovate.
Slava Rubin
Founder of Indiegogo
Slava Rubin is the CEO and co-founder of Indiegogo, a company dedicated to revolutionizing the way that people fund what matters to them, and has led the organization to becoming the largest crowdfunding platform in the world. Slava represented the crowdfunding industry at the White House during the signing of the JOBS Act and has helped navigate bringing equity crowdfunding to the American public. He also pioneered security tokens in the the United States.
Duncan Wardle
Former Head of Innovation & Creativity at the Walt Disney Company, Ted X Presenter, Teacher at Yale, Duke, Auburn and University of Florida, Contributor, Fast Company Magazine
Leaning on 25+ years of experience with Disney, most recently as Head of Innovation & Creativity, Duncan creates an engaging, immersive keynote that leaves the audience with a unique set of tangible tools they can actually use to embed a culture of innovation and creativity across their own organizations. Duncan fills his presentations with colorful Disney anecdotes, vibrant drawings, and his trademark artistic touch. He shares the creative techniques and behaviors to develop big, innovative ideas. He stirs and unleashes the audiences’ creative juices, delivering his message with infectious energy and playful collaboration.
Melissa Schilling
Innovation Scholar and Professor
Melissa Schilling holds the John Herzog Family chair in management and organizations at NYU Stern. She is one of the world’s leading experts on innovation. Melissa's research focuses on innovation and strategy in high technology industries such as smartphones, videogames, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, electric vehicles, and renewable energies. Her research in innovation and strategy has earned her awards such as the National Science Foundation’s CAREER Award, and the Best Paper in Management Science and Organization Science for 2007 Award.
