Megan Anderson
Megan is a leading source, speaker & coach in the social media space. Her passion is helping others feel confident in themselves. Before starting in the mortgage industry, she trained people to prep for bodybuilding competitions. She began to see the power in promoting ourselves & business through social media. Megan combines her talents in helping people not only find their story, but to become brave enough to share it on social media.
Casey Cunningham
With more than 30 years of diverse retail mortgage banking experience, Casey is one of the most influential and trusted leaders in the industry. A close adviser to prominent executives across the nation, she has the proven ability to lead and transform organizations. Cunningham’s passion for professional standards, education, sales productivity and accountability has empowered professionals across the nation to experience more fulfilling and productive careers.
Casey has served as Executive Vice President of a $4 billion dollar mortgage company and earned recognition as one of the highest-ranking executives in the industry. Since establishing XINNIX in 2002, Casey has recruited and led talented men and women from diverse industries to help XINNIX become the most recognized and acclaimed sales and leadership training academy in the mortgage industry.
Katey Dallosto
Capisce is Italian for “understand”. Understanding is at the heart of all great relationships. Capisce Consulting was built to create an environment for understanding among clients, associates and great teams.
As founder, Katey Dallosto took her 25 years of business, sales and leadership experience as a national trainer, business coach and sales consultant to help people understand each other better. She has trained over 30,000 sales and leadership professionals over the last ten years. Her areas of expertise include: sales training, leadership development and turning dysfunctional teams into effective ones.
As author of Fortune Cookie Leadership, Katey combines her personal revealing and fun style with a little tough love to help you build more sales and great teams. Over her career, Katey has been responsible for developing profitable relationships by empowering her partners through growth and understanding. Katey utilizes a fun and engaging style to achieve the desired results for her clients with an emphasis on accountability.
Ryan Grant
“Ryan Grant, co-creator of NEO Home Loans, has been a pioneer in changing the mortgage industry. For the last 17+ years, he has led an outstanding team of mortgage professionals in transforming the way consumers look at their mortgage lending relationship by providing a level of value and a commitment to their clients that is not common in the mortgage business.
Ryan has been among the top 25 mortgage professionals in the country and was the #1 lender in Orange County, CA for many years. Along with being a co-founder of one of the fastest-growing mortgage companies, he is also a co-founder of the industry-changing platform Art of Homeownership and Triibe Coaching for real estate and mortgage professionals.
Ryan is passionate about guiding as many people to financial literacy through homeownership as possible. That same passion has been one of the reasons that Ryan is such a sought-after speaker in the mortgage business, speaking at many of the real estate and mortgage industry’s largest conferences and events.
Ryan believes that by helping enough people, the average consumer will start to demand more from their real estate and mortgage professional and both industries will start to elevate their value and be more inspired by the work they do.”
Barry Habib
Barry is an American Entrepreneur and frequent Media resource for his Mortgage and Housing expertise. Barry has had a long tenure with monthly appearances for CNBC and FOX. Barry is the CEO of MBS Highway; a company and platform created to help interpret and forecast activity in the mortgage rate and bond markets.
Barry has had many successful businesses that he has founded, grown, and sold. This includes Mortgage Market Guide, Healthcare Imaging Solutions, and Certified Mortgage Associates. Barry’s mortgage sales career included being recognized for having the highest annual origination production in the US on two occasions.
Barry personally originated over $2 Billion dollars in mortgage loan production over his career.
For the past 20 years, Barry is a well-known professional speaker on the financial markets.
John Israel
Our mission at The Mr. Thank You Project is to elevate the level of gratitude on the planet by 1% by inspiring 74 million thank you cards written all over the world.
This was started by our Founder John Israel, who committed himself to writing 5- thank you cards every day for an entire year. This life changing experience allowed John the opportunity to share his story on National stages, and attracted the attention of news and media outlets such as: PopSugar, Fox News, NBC, Good Morning America, and MarthaStewart.com.
As John shares, “Our objective is to help people make gratitude a habit, not just by writing about it in a journal, or "thinking happy thoughts", but by living gratitude as an expression in your life.”
John’s story has been documented in his book, The Mr. Thank You Project: A Journey to Elevate the Level of Gratitude on the Planet, One Card at a Time. Available on Amazon as of May 2018.
Michael J. Maher
Michael designed a system, the (7L) System, based around a philosophy of generosity. He, and those who have implemented the system, have found that a business based on generosity leads to reciprocity in the form of referrals, help, and good will far beyond anything they could ever imagine. As Michael says, “It’s a living worth living. It’s a living worth loving.” After sharing this philosophy and system in the International Bestseller (7L) The Seven Levels of Communication: Go from Relationships to Referrals, Michael with no plans for speaking, coaching, or training was instantly inundated with requests to teach the system. Now thousands upon thousands of professionals see him speak, attend his events, and go through this trainings every year.
Kristin Messerli
Kristin is the Founder and Managing Director of Cultural Outreach Solutions, specializing in helping companies in the mortgage industry better reach and serve multicultural and Millennial homebuyers. Her expertise is in multicultural marketing, Millennial homeownership, and compliance with diversity regulations in the Dodd-Frank.
Kristin is a frequent speaker at national conferences in the industry and has written for numerous publications. In addition to her business, she consults with the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals (NAHREP) Consulting Services, and she is the co-author of the MBA’s Section 342 Compliance Essentials Toolkit.
Kristin started her career in the mortgage industry and later worked as a social worker both locally and abroad, training providers on culturally competent practice. Prior to starting her own business, she consulted with former McKinsey consultants at the Center for the Creation of Economic Wealth to develop international social enterprises.
Ken Perry
President and Founder of The Knowledge Coop™
Since diving into the industry in 1998, Ken Perry has been a relentless innovator in the mortgage and real estate world. His company was one of the nations first training companies to be approved by the Nationwide Mortgage Licensing System (NMLS) to provide pre-licensing and continuing education for originators, Ken has had the opportunity to speak to hundreds of thousands of professionals throughout the country on topics including mortgage and real estate compliance, title and escrow laws, economic and industry updates and forecasts, business development and strategy, and social networking and media.
Ken is madly in love with, and quite addicted to, reading laws. He researches and analyzes every law, rule, and regulation he can get his hands on and has become famous for bringing a unique, not-what-you-expect style of education to his clients by mixing passion and humor with extreme knowledge.
Joe Puthur
Joe, president of Mortgage Coach, has been reinventing the industry’s most trusted selling strategy to embrace the internet and mobile revolution.
Throughout the past 15 years as a technology leader, in the mortgage industry, his designs have always pushed the envelope of what software and systems can do for mortgage professionals. Joe was the founder and former CEO of Lasso Technologies, a start-up that pioneered bringing Loan Origination Software online. In 2005, Ellie Mae, acquired Lasso Technologies to create Encompass Anywhere, hands down the largest SaaS offered LOS.
Joe is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive sales, management, marketing, and technical experience. He has been selected multiple times among the “40 Most Influential Leaders in the Mortgage Industry Under 40” by Mortgage Professional magazine. He’s a passionate leader and a public speaker with the ability to effectively inspire mortgage professionals to tap into their full potential, with a little help from technology – and has more then a decade of success to prove it.
Rene Rodriguez
Considered by many as the leading authority on leadership and influence, Rene Rodriguez is a best-selling author, keynote speaker, leadership advisor, and transformational speaker coach. For the last 27 years, René has been researching and applying behavioral neuroscience to solve some of the toughest challenges in leadership, sales, and change.
As an entrepreneur and CEO of multiple companies, Rene integrates a practical business approach that inspires his audiences to take action. Through his keynote, boot camps, workshops and proprietary Amplifii™ course, he helps us own our backstory to build the frame for not only our unique value propositions but also a beautiful picture of life.
His audiences describe him as "powerful", "thought-provoking", and "authentic". They say things like, "you could hear a pin drop as everyone was so captivated."
The result: greater influence, personal transformation, and immediate results in business and life by engaging with courage and grace.
His Best Selling book AMPLIFY YOUR INFLUENCE can be found on Amazon and all major retailers.
Dave Savage
Dave, Founder of Mortgage Coach, has over twenty-eight years of experience as a mortgage executive, business leader, and mobile technology pioneer. By launching Mortgage Coach, Dave has helped tens of thousands of loan officers and millions of homeowners make confident, informed, mortgage decisions.
Dave is passionate about leveraging mobile technology to help evangelize the Mortgage Coach mission of reinventing the mortgage experience for borrowers, lenders, and Realtors. Mortgage Coach, recently ranked 1 of 5 must-have real estate apps by USA TODAY, allows you to connect with families and partners, ensuring a confident mortgage decision can be made.
Dave is a recognized leader in the mortgage industry for his contributions to improving the professionalism and quality of advice that originators provide homeowners. As a mortgage industry leader, Dave has been a speaker at many major industry events, and before Mortgage Coach, Dave was one of the nation’s top loan originators and President of a national mortgage company.
Steve Scanlon
Steve Scanlon is the Founder and CEO of Rewire, Inc., a company centered around teaching how the human mind shapes the path to success.His focus is on bringing current neurological discoveries to bear in areas of leadership, management, sales and operational performance, interpersonal communication, improved corporate culture, and personal excellence. Using the concepts of Lizard Brain, emotional intelligence, metacognition and mindfulness, Steve helps companies, teams and individuals better understand how to make effective changes for radical improvement. The ability to effectively manage change can not only improve our personal lives, but can be a powerful competitive advantage in our businesses, and Steve wants to help people understand that authentic and sustainable change is possible, and happens from the inside out. His strength is making the science behind how the human brain works not only more accessible to a broader audience, but also applicable to how we manage our day-to-day lives.
Egypt Sherrod
Television and radio host, author, real estate broker, designer, life coach and coveted speaker, Egypt is a POWERHOUSE!
“Tough love with a hug,” is what HGTV & OWN fans and her personal clients have come to affectionately expect from Egypt Sherrod. She is best known as host and co-executive producer of “Married To Real Estate,” “Flipping Virgins,” “Property Virgins” and has been seen hosting OWN’s reunion specials for “Love & Marriage Huntsville,” “Put A Ring On It,” & “The Haves and The Have Nots.”
Egypt and husband Mike Jackson, have also connected with married couples everywhere as they unpacked their baggage on OWN’s “Black Love Doc.” In 2022, Egypt who is a real estate broker and designer, along with her builder husband Mike, can be seen competing on Season 3 of HGTV’s flagship design and renovation show “Rock The Block.”
David Ubeda
David is the founder of MRDEU Global Media, a small digital marketing & coaching firm showing entrepreneurs, small business owners, and heart-centered consultants around the world how to get crystal clear with their niche, scale their business and make an impact in the world.
David has been a featured guest on nationally syndicated radio, podcast and television programs like TBN, WGN, CLTV, PBS, The Strausburg Report, N’Digo Magazine and more.
David is a uniquely gifted national level communicator & author crafting customized messages integrating humor, media, and real-life experiences. He has worked with organizations like the Chicago Bears, NFL Alumni Association, Boys & Girls Clubs, Pro Sports Experience, and featured artists like Tye Tribbett, Veronica Petrucci (Angelo & Veronica), Carmen, Israel Houghton, Freddy Rodriguez, Brandon Roberson, Puchi Colon, Javis Mays and more.
David is the Host of the popular Life Hacks for Entrepreneurs podcast.
Ron Vaimberg
NEED A KEYNOTE SPEAKER TO WOW YOUR AUDIENCE AND MOTIVATE THEM?
Ron Vaimberg is the most dynamic, entertaining and motivating presenter in the industry. Regardless of whether you want to motivate, entertain or provide some real market insight to your team or association, Ron has the presentation you want and need.
Because of Ron's 25+ years of experience in the mortgage industry and real life experiences as an elite originator, he has all the resources, real life stories, and personal experiences to deliver the exact message you want for your program.
Find out about how Ron can have a tremendous long lasting impact on your audience that will last long after the program ends.
Tom Ward
Tom is a professional speaker and author of The Empathy Effect who gives keynotes and seminars around the country. Tom's rags-to-riches story, a rise to wealth and success is one that he credits to the empathy for others which his parents instilled in him at an early age. Tom has a knack to make complex things simple and inspires his audiences to prosper in their own life and business by seeing what's important to others. Tom gives insights how "empathy-based, unique-selling propositions" lead to higher profitability, and the importance of empathy for company culture, leadership, negotiating, and more.
Tom is CEO and founder of Majestic Consulting and Marketing as well as founder of Path2Buy, a free educational resource created to help people prepare, over time, to become tomorrow's homeowners.