KOFI NARTEY
Former Athlete, Entrepreneur & CEO, Bestselling Author and Human Performance Strategist
About Kofi Nartey
Kofi Nartey has spent his career performing at the highest level, first on the football field and then in business, and he teaches audiences how to do the same.
Kofi played football at UC Berkeley and went on to sign as a wide receiver with the Oakland Raiders. The lessons from that world, the preparation, the discipline and the willingness to compete when the stakes are highest, became the foundation for everything he built next, including a decade as a working SAG-AFTRA actor.
Over more than twenty years in luxury real estate, Kofi became the go-to broker for celebrities, professional athletes and affluent clients around the world. He leads GLOBL Real Estate & Development, a private firm with billions of dollars in sales, and is CEO of GLOBL Consulting, a Focus and Finish Group company. Before that he founded and led the Compass Sports & Entertainment Division, the nation's first vetted group of sports and entertainment real estate specialists, directed the Sports & Entertainment Division at The Agency, and was a top producer at Keller Williams. Television audiences know him from two seasons as a featured agent on HGTV's Selling LA, eight appearances on Bravo's Million Dollar Listing and appearances on Netflix's Selling Sunset, and he has shared his insight with The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, CNBC, ESPN, Fox Business and CNN Money.
Top business and sports organizations across the country call on Kofi for keynotes and trainings. He has trained more than 2,000 agents nationally, taken the main stage six times at Inman Connect and Inman Luxury Connect and four times at Leaders in Luxury, and has delivered player development training and consulting for the NFL. He calls himself an agitator of change, and his style lives up to it: dynamic, authentic and approachable, he pushes audiences past their comfort zones and sends them home with proven frameworks and tools they can use the very next morning. His name doubles as his mission, K.O.F.I., the King of Focused Impact.
Kofi is the bestselling author of Sellebrity: How to Build a Successful Sports and Entertainment Based Business and his latest book, Inner Beast: Unlock Your Super Animal DNA for Performance, Prosperity, and Powerful Partnerships, an instinct-based framework that shows people how their natural wiring shapes the way they think, work, recover and relate. Audiences can take the free Inner Beast assessment and join his free personal development community, Mogul Nation. He holds an MBA from Pepperdine University's Presidents and Key Executives Program, gives back through The Nartey Sports Foundation, and lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Dr. Mimi Nartey, and their two children. As Kofi puts it, "When you give from your gifts, you never run out."
- Signed as a wide receiver with the Oakland Raiders; Cal Football alum, UC Berkeley
- LA Business Journal LA500: Most Influential Business Leaders in Los Angeles, three years running
- Variety "Showbiz Real Estate Elite" (twice) and The Hollywood Reporter Top 25 Hollywood Real Estate Agents
- Angeleno Magazine "Power Player" (twice) and Modern Luxury "Icon of Beverly Hills" (twice)
- Six-time Inman main stage speaker and four-time Leaders in Luxury main stage speaker
- Guest speaker and trainer, The Institute for Luxury Home Marketing
By the Numbers
Speaking Topics
Best for: corporate annual meetings, leadership summits and sales conferences.
Excellence is never an accident. It comes from intentional decisions, consistent habits and an unwavering commitment to growth. Drawing on professional sports, entrepreneurship and his work advising elite performers, Kofi shares practical strategies for building a culture of excellence that drives both individual and organizational success.
Your Audience Leaves With
- Intentional decisions: treating excellence as a choice made every day, not a lucky outcome.
- Consistent habits: the routines high performers rely on when motivation runs low.
- A culture of excellence: how individual standards add up to organizational results.
Best for: employee engagement, personal development, team building and motivational keynotes.
Everyone carries a unique combination of strengths, instincts and untapped potential. Through powerful storytelling and his Inner Beast framework, Kofi helps audiences understand how they are wired, move past self-imposed limits and activate the mindset and behaviors they need to perform at their best.
Your Audience Leaves With
- Self-awareness: a clear picture of how they are naturally wired to think, lead and recover.
- Fewer limits: a way to spot and move past the ceilings they have set for themselves.
- Stronger teams: a shared language for working with the different strengths around them.
Best for: executive leadership, innovation conferences, future-of-work events and company-wide meetings.
As artificial intelligence transforms how we work, our greatest competitive advantage is still our ability to connect with, inspire and lead people. Kofi explores how organizations can embrace new technology while strengthening the uniquely human qualities of trust, emotional intelligence, relationships and collaboration that drive lasting success.
Your Audience Leaves With
- Confidence with change: a way to embrace AI without losing what makes their work human.
- Trust as a strategy: why relationships become more valuable as technology spreads.
- People-first leadership: emotional intelligence and collaboration as everyday leadership tools.
Best for: sales kickoffs, strategic planning, organizational change and performance improvement.
Ambition is common. Execution is what separates the people who dream from the people who deliver. Kofi shares proven principles for developing focus, building resilience, eliminating distractions and creating the accountability it takes to turn bold visions into measurable achievements.
Your Audience Leaves With
- Focus: how to protect attention from the distractions that stall big goals.
- Resilience: ways to keep moving when the plan meets real-world setbacks.
- Accountability: the structure that turns a bold vision into measurable results.
Best for: leadership development, sales organizations, corporate culture and professional associations.
In a world where trust and reputation drive opportunity, everyone represents a brand, whether they realize it or not. Kofi shows how aligning personal identity, values and daily actions creates stronger leaders, more influential professionals and organizations people want to work with and for.
Your Audience Leaves With
- Alignment: connecting their values to the way they show up every day.
- Influence: how authenticity builds the trust that opens doors.
- A stronger organization: how personal brands add up to a company people want to work with and for.
Kofi also customizes programs for real estate and luxury audiences, including The Luxury Mindset: How to Attract, Understand, and Serve Affluent Clients, The Sellebrity Blueprint: Winning Clients in Sports & Entertainment and The Luxury Real Estate Playbook: Winning Across the Luxury Industry.
What Audiences Say
Kofi is the most effective speaker I've ever heard.
Audience feedback, Kofi Nartey keynoteI came away with immediate action items to use in my business.
Audience feedback, Kofi Nartey keynoteHis career and experience is aspirational, but his approach to teaching is very accessible.
Audience feedback, Kofi Nartey keynoteThe only reason I wouldn't recommend him is that I don't want my competitors to get the same secrets.
Audience feedback, Kofi Nartey keynoteWhere Kofi Appears
Read the spotlight: He Signed With the Raiders, Then Became Hollywood's Go-To Real Estate Broker. Now He Teaches Companies That Excellence Is a Strategy.
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