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Real Estate News and Advice for Women by Women
Valerie Alexander is a nationally-recognized speaker on the topics of happiness in the workplace, the advancement of women, and unconscious bias, and her TED Talk, “How to Outsmart Your Own Unconscious Bias” has been viewed more than 50,000 times.
Nationally known mortgage coach Michael F. White looks at the challenges facing the mortgage and real estate communities and provides a complete plan on what is actually taking place in our markets. When change happens, you need a plan and a strategy.
Daniel Burrus is considered one of the World’s Leading Futurists on Global Trends and Disruptive Innovation. The New York Times has referred to him as one of the top three business gurus.
He is the CEO of Burrus Research, a research and consulting firm that monitors global advancements in technology driven trends to help clients profit from technological, social and business forces that are converging to create enormous, untapped opportunities.
Burrus is an innovative entrepreneur who has founded six businesses, four of which were U.S. national leaders in the first year. His accurate predictions date back to the early 1980s where he became the first and only futurist to accurately identify the twenty exponential technologies that would become the driving force of business and economic growth for decades to come. Since then, he has continued to establish a worldwide reputation for his exceptional record of predicting the future of technology driven change and its direct impact on the business world.
After graduation from the University of Memphis, with a major in Sales and a minor in Real Estate, he was #1 salesman in a national organization. He then established his own training firm and shortly thereafter was in demand as a professional speaker.
Since then Don has addressed over half of the Fortune 500 Companies and is featured in over 100 training films. He is Chairman & CEO of U. S. Learning and makes some 50 speaking appearances per year. Perhaps you have seen him on national television where he has been featured on ABC, PBS, TPN and Fox News.
Don is the author of SELLING VALUE, and co-author of the #1 Best Sellers, THE ONE MINUTE ENTREPRENEUR (with Dr. Ken Blanchard) and THE ONE MINUTE NEGOTIATOR (with Dr. George Lucas). He has also authored or co-authored eleven other books.
Karen Deis has been in the mortgage business for 28 years and has created a successful lending career. She has owned a mortgage broker company for 9 years and owned a CBA with the largest builder in the area, an appraisal firm and a real estate company, and served as an “expert witness” providing mortgage fraud investigation services. Karen is also a speaker for private companies, mortgage associations and national mortgage events.
Adorna is the President of Dynamic Directions, Inc., an educational and sales training consulting firm that has an extensive faculty of consultants and trainers. Adorna trains Realtors® all over North America in Buyer and Seller Representation, Strategic and Business Planning and Association Leadership Training. She has authored numerous designation and certification courses for the CRB – Certified Real Estate Brokerage Managers, CRETS- Certified Real Estate Teams Certification, the SRS – Seller Representative Specialist and the RENE – Real Estate Negotiation Expert, programs that have elevated the skills and career opportunities for real estate professionals.
Having delivered thousands of presentations over two decades, Jason Hewlett is the only speaker in the world teaching leadership skills, tools, and mindsets in such a powerfully unconventional way. With out-of-the-box performances of uncanny musical and comedy impressions of incredible stage legends, Jason’s keynote, The Promise: Become a Legendary Leader and Discover Your Signature Moves is a speech that feels like a show, entertainment that feels like enlightenment, music that feels like a difference-maker. Audiences leave with proven processes and immediately implementable takeaways to transform their business and leadership skills and invite a whole lot more joy into life.
Over the course of a career spanning nearly 20 years, Verl Workman has delivered over 1,000 seminars, webinars, keynote addresses and other motivational messages to real estate and sales professionals around the world. In 2016, Verl earned the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) designation from the National Speakers Association. His winning attitude and undying passion infuse every encounter with a sense of discovery that empowers him to inspire his clients and truly change lives.