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Charles McMillan
2008 President-elect
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®
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| Charles McMillan, a REALTOR® from Irving, Texas, is 2008 President-Elect of the National Association of REALTORS®. NAR, The Voice for Real Estate®, is America’s largest trade association, representing more than 1.3 million members involved in all aspects of the residential and commercial real estate industries.
McMillan, a REALTOR® for more than 20 years, is Director of Realty Relations and Broker of Record for Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, Dallas-Fort Worth. He is a member of Omega Tau Rho, honorary real estate society.
At the national level, McMillan was NAR 2007 First Vice President. He has twice served as NAR Regional Vice President of Region X that includes Texas and Louisiana. He is a member of the NAR Leadership Team, the Executive Committee and the Strategic Planning Committee. He has served as chairman of several panels and committees including the Convention Advisory Group, 2002; Communications Committee, 1999; State & Municipal Coordinating Committee, 1995; and Urban Affairs Committee, 1993. From 2002 to the present, he has been a member of the International Operations Division serving as NAR President’s Liaison and real estate ambassador to Jamaica. He has also been recognized by NAR as an expert in the areas of agency, antitrust, misrepresentation, fair housing and diversity.
In 1998, he was President of the Texas Association of REALTORS®, and was vice president and secretary-treasurer before that. He chaired the Budget & Finance and Legal Review Committees as well as the Legislative Management Team and the Executive Board. He has served on numerous state committees including Professional Standards, Strategic Planning, Equal Opportunity, Future Leadership Council and REALTOR® Community Service. In 2002 he was named a Life Member of the T.A.R. Board of Directors. He was Texas "REALTOR® of the Year" in 2000.
At the local level, McMillan was President of the Greater Fort Worth Association of REALTORS® in 1991, has served on many committees and was chairman of FORPAC in 2000. He was named GFWAR “REALTOR® of the Year” by his peers in 1992 and received the GFWAR “REALTOR® Spirit Award” in 1986.
Active in the community as well, McMillan is a Life Member of the Texas Real Estate Teachers Association and is an approved instructor by the Texas Real Estate Commission in real estate prelicensing and mandatory continuing education courses. He is a past chairman of the Community Development Council of Fort Worth, the Tarrant County Affordable Housing Task Force, the Housing Subcommittee of Fort Worth, and a past director of the United Way of Tarrant County and of the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce.
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Lawrence Yun
Senior Economist
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®
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Lawrence Yun is Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®. He writes regular columns on real estate market trends, creates NAR’s forecasts, and participates in many economic forecasting panels, including Blue Chip and the Harvard University Industrial Economist Council. He regularly appears on CNBC, BBC, and Bloomberg TV and is a frequent speaker at Real Estate conferences throughout the United States and abroad. USA Today recently listed him among the top 10 economic forecasters in the country.
Dr. Yun has been with NAR since 2000. Prior to that, he worked as an economic consultant to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs and the U.S. Department of Education. While a research associate at the University of Maryland for three years, Yun developed the graduate economics curriculum for and taught free market economics in the former Soviet Union as that country transitioned from communism to a free-market system.
Dr. Yun received his undergraduate degree from Purdue University and earned his Ph.D. from the University of Maryland at College Park.
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Tim Kent, CAE
Executive Vice President
North Carolina Association of REALTORS®
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Since October 2000, Tim Kent has served as the chief executive officer of the 42,000-member North Carolina Association of REALTORS® (NCAR), which has offices in Greensboro and Raleigh. NCAR maintains the largest business political action committee in the state, NCRPAC, and in 2006 it raised more than $670,000 to help support candidates for Congress, the North Carolina General Assembly, and local government. The state association recently established the North Carolina Homeowners Alliance, a non-profit corporation involved in educating the public about issues that affect homeownership. Prior to joining the REALTOR® organization, Kent spent a decade as the chief executive officer of the North Carolina Chapter of the American Institute of Architects. He served as the executive assistant to the speaker of the North Carolina House of Representatives, following a distinguished, 13-year career in television news. In 1986, the Radio-Television News Directors Association of the Carolinas named Kent the “North Carolina Television Journalist of the Year”. In 1988, he won “first place” for Best Reporting from United Press International. Tim holds the Certified Association Executive (CAE) designation from the American Society of Association Executives and the Center for Association Leadership. He was the 1995-1996 Association Executives of North Carolina President, and currently serves as the Secretary-Treasurer of N.C. Free (North Carolina Forum for Research and Economic Enterprise).
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Sharon was the 1999 President of the National Association of REALTORS® and served as Co-Chair of the International Consortium of Real Estate Association (ICREA) when it was founded in 2000-2001 with 25 international member associations. Sharon also served as Chair in 2001 of the Fannie Mae National Advisory Board. Sharon chaired NAR's Presidential Advisory Group that proposed changes in state agency relationships and disclosure laws. She currently serves on the Maine Real Estate Commission, is Vice Chair of the Sisters of Charity Health System, a Director of Auburn Savings Bank and was recently named 2007 Citizen of the Year by the city of Auburn, Maine.
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| Doug Hinderer
Senior Vice President, Human Resources
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® |
Doug Hinderer is the Senior Vice President of Human Resources at theNational Association of REALTORS®. He has 23 years of experience in human resources, 12 of them with NAR. Before joining NAR, he held a number of human resources positions in the for-profit sector. He has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Illinois State University and has done extensive graduate work in the area of organizational communication. In May 1995 he earned his Senior Professional in Human Resources designation from the Society for Human Resource Management. Doug is a member of that society as well as the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce, the Association Forum, and the American Society of Association Executives.
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| Connie Podesta
Author |
The mulit-faceted Connie Podesta is a comedienne, author, Licensed Professional Counselor, and radio/TV personality, this makes her uniquely able to involve her audience. With her business expertise and diverse talents she inspires a udiences to reach new heights in their personal and professional development. Combining a great sense of humor and audience interaction with her no-nonsense approach Connie presents great leadership techniques that help leaders successfully tackle the issues they confront everyday when faced with challenging individuals. Connie explores the three key characteristics that every leader must have in order to be successful…courage, character, and commitment…the courage to do what's right, even when it's not convenient; the commitment to hold oneself and others accountable by setting high expectations with fair, consistent rewards or consequences; and the strength of character to lead by example. How important is a good leader?...well, leaders change the culture, the culture changes behaviors, and behaviors produce...RESULTS! Sensational leaders = sensational results.
To Contact Connie Podesta
shaynas@washingtonspeakers.com
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| Errol Samuelson
President
REALTOR.com® |
| Errol Samuelson is President of REALTOR.com, the official site of the National Association of REALTORS®. Ranked as the No. 1 homes-for-sale destination on the Internet, REALTOR.com® currently offers potential home buyers access to over four and a half million property listings as well as access to the most brokers and agents. The site provides REALTORS® and the home sellers they represent with the Internet's largest real estate marketplace, reaching more than six million consumers in January 2008 (Media Metrix).
Samuelson is also President of Top Producer Systems, the leading provider of real estate sales and marketing software solutions, including the company’s flagship customer relationship management system, Top Producer® 8i™. The company offers real estate brokerages custom web and video production services as well as interactive voice response systems.
Previously Samuelson served as Vice President, Product Strategy for Move, Inc. Before joining Move, Samuelson was Director of Sales, Marketing and Product Management at GTE Enterprise Solutions, with responsibility for the Real Estate and Mortgage Banking vertical markets. Samuelson also was one of the original designers of T-III, a ground-breaking system that introduced interactive mapping, intuitive software and Internet networking to the Multiple Listing Service business.
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| Laurie Janik
Senior Vice President, General Counsel
Legal Affairs
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® |
Laurene K. Janik is the general counsel for the National Association of REALTORS®. She has been with NAR since 1977. As general counsel, she is responsible for assuring that the programs, policies and activities of NAR are in compliance with the law. She also is responsible for defending the association against legal chal5lenges and initiating litigation to protect and preserve association assets and policies as necessary. She is a frequent speaker at REALTOR® association meetings across the country, and is well known throughout the organization for helping state and local association presidents and executive officers better understand legal issues and responsibilities.
Laurie Janik received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, and she received a Juris Doctor degree from Loyola University of Chicago. She is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the Bar in Illinois, and the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. She is a member of the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, and the Chicago Bar Association.
Laurie and her husband, James, reside in Glen Ellyn, Illinois. They have two daughters, Katherine and Alison.
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Mark Lesswing
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®
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Mark Lesswing is the senior vice president and chief technology officer for the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®.
He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University, and started programming robots just out of college. In 1988, he began working with object-oriented programming, and in 1992 he launched a consultancy. He has worked for large database vendors such as Sybase (as a startup) and Oracle, and spent a summer in Europe setting up operations for a vendor.
For three years prior to joining NAR, Mark was involved in corporate turnarounds. He is a speaker at major trade conferences, and is listed in the International Who's Who of Information Technology and the National Register of Who's Who in Executive and Professions.
Having grown up in Buffalo, New York, Lesswing also has lived in New York and San Francisco. Currently he resides in Chicago with his wife, Susannah, and their three children
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Dale Stinton
Executive Vice President/Chief Executive Officer
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®
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Dale A. Stinton is the executive vice president and chief executive officer of the National Association of REALTORS®.
Stinton, who was NAR’s chief financial and chief information officer, took over the NAR reins on November 1, 2005. Stinton joined NAR 25 years ago and became CFO in 1991. He served as acting CEO and executive vice president in 1996 and became CFO/CIO in 1998.
He has been a key member of the team that directed the association's long-term strategic informaiton and technology agenda including Realtor.com, Sentrilock, RE FormsNet, and the very successful NAR E-Commerce system. Stinton oversaw the development, financing and construction of NAR’s new $47 million award-winning Washington, D.C., office building and the establishment of the $52 million Strategic Investment Reserve. Stinton worked with NAR leadership to set up the Realtors® Housing Relief Fund in 2001 to raise funds and ensure that more than 1,200 families would not lose their homes as a result of the terrorist attacks on September 11, and has managed the REALTORS® Relief Foundation, which has raised funds to aid victims of the hurricanes in 2004, the tsunami in South Asia, and Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
Stinton is a Certified Association Executive (CAE), Certified Public Accountant (CPA), a Certified Management Accountant (CMA), and has achieved the REALTOR® association Certified Executive (RCE) designation. He earned his M.B.A. from DePaul University and his B.S. from Western Illinois University.
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D. Michael Abrashoff
Former Navy Commander and Author, It's Your Ship
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| When Mike Abrashoff was selected to become Commander of U.S.S. Benfold at age 36, he was the most junior commanding officer in the Pacific Fleet. The challenges were staggering with exceptionally low morale and unacceptably high turnover, few thought the ship could improve, but Mike only became more resolved.
The story of how the USS Benfold was transformed into the best ship in the Navy rekindles audiences with enthusiasm to make a difference at work. Since the readiness of a ship is a matter of life and death in conflict situations, every crewmember’s contribution matters. Mike's It’s Your Ship philosophy empowered his crew to take charge and use ingenuity and initiative to improve every aspect of the way things were done. Mike will lead us through how to instill a climate of ownership in which every person feels like they are accountable and responsible for the success of their organization.
To Contact Michael Abrashoff
shaynas@washingtonspeakers.com
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