Cheryl Knowlton has spent more than 25 years inside real estate, not watching it from a stage, but living it. A Utah Associate Broker with 27 years in the industry, she has built Utah pre-licensing schools and served as an expert witness and subject matter expert for the Utah Division of Real Estate. She has trained thousands of agents in person in 30 states and Canada, and online in all 50 states and internationally. When she talks about what’s changing in this business, she’s talking about her own business too.
Cheryl is the host of “Real Estate Elevated,” a podcast ranked in the top 10% of podcasts globally. Each week, she brings agents and brokers the conversations they need to keep growing in a market that refuses to stand still. The show reflects what Cheryl does best: she takes what’s complicated, uncomfortable, or easy to ignore in this business and makes it clear, practical, and worth acting on. For agents who want to keep learning between conventions, *Real Estate Elevated* keeps her in their ears every week.
Cheryl holds the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation, the highest earned designation from the National Speakers Association. Fewer than 700 speakers worldwide hold it, and fewer than 15 of them speak on real estate. She is Past President of the NSA Mountain West Chapter and has been a real estate educator since 2003. Her continuing education courses on compliance, risk, fair housing, and marketing turn required hours into some of the most talked-about sessions at a convention. Agents come for the credit and stay because they leave better at their jobs.
She is also an ICF Certified Coach, a graduate of the Academy for Coaching Excellence, and an iEQ9 Accredited Enneagram Practitioner. Adopted at birth, Cheryl has spent a lifetime asking why people do what they do, and the Enneagram became her favorite tool for answering that question. She uses it with brokerages and leadership teams to reveal the patterns that drive how people sell, lead, and communicate, and where those patterns quietly cost them.
Cheryl is the author of “Burn the Hamster Wheel” and “I’m Only Half Crazy.” Her forthcoming book, “Your Story Is Your Superpower,” explores how the stories we tell ourselves shape the results we get. She is CEO and Chief Energy Officer of Dynamite Productions, Inc., a title that tells you exactly what to expect when she takes the stage.
Whether she’s teaching a CE class, coaching a leadership team, or recording her next episode, Cheryl brings the same mix of energy, humor, and straight talk. She works with seasoned agents and brokers who have built real success and want to keep it growing when the market shifts. Her sessions are high-energy, funny, and surprisingly personal, grounded in decades of real-world experience rather than theory. Audiences leave with more than notes. They leave with a clearer view of their business and a plan for what comes next.
Cheryl lives in Park City, Utah with her dog Scooby.