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SPEAKER HIGHLIGHTS
We are excited to prepare you for our VIRTUAL SEMINAR!
We want to highlight our speakers that you don’t want to miss.
Leadership Strategies in the Virtual World with Cleve Gaddis.
Cleve Gaddis is a master coach, speaker, and trainer with Workman Success Systems who personally coaches some of America’s top-producing teams. He learned sales the hard way, by selling vacuum cleaners door to door, and now puts those skills to use in helping his clients build teams that generate up to $400 million in sales volume annually . He personally leads one of the top real estate teams in Georgia and hosts The GoGaddis Real Estate Radio Show on AM 920 The Answer in Atlanta on Saturdays at 9 AM. Cleve has earned an MBA from LSU.
Data Security, Best Practices for Attorneys –Keep your Title Agency Secure as You Go Digital, during COVID 19 & Beyond
with Rick Diamond. Rick Diamond currently serves as Vice President of Information Technology, Agency Operations Fidelity National Financial. Rick is involved in all I.T. initiatives in the company’s agency operations nationwide. Rick maintains dialogue with agents and speaks throughout the country about technology, Digital Closing processes, Data Security, Wire Fraud, I.T. trends and ways to use technology to assist in title processing and compliance. He consults with agents in many aspects of technology with the main focuses being; how to make the relationship easier between Title Agents and FNF through technology, how to streamline back office procedures to save time, money and to be more efficient, data security to protect the agents as well as their businesses, helping agents’ clients close on their terms and how to use technology to grow their business. Rick is a staunch advocate for a great number of agents across the country, and has a reputation for putting his clients ahead of all else. Rick has over 31 years of experience in the industry, he was VP, Division IT Director for 22 years and also served as VP and State Manager. Rick is a member of the American Land Title Association, ALTA’s Technology Committee, ALTA’s Best Practices Committee, ALTA’s Information Security Executive Committee and the New England Land Title Association. He served on the Executive Board of Directors for Massachusetts Title, the oldest Title Insurance Company in the United States. He is a former board member and remains actively involved with the Room to Dream Foundation, a children’s charity which donates renovation and home improvement services to chronically ill children in Massachusetts.
ETHICS HOUR
Face Time to Face Time – Ethically Managing & Growing Your Business in a Virtual World with Dr. Cindy McGovern, First Lady of Sales, OrangeLeaf Consulting known far and wide as “Dr. Cindy,” the First Lady of Sales, Dr. Cindy McGovern is an expert in the areas of sales, interpersonal communication, leadership, and management. She has earned her reputation by helping literally hundreds of title companies to grow their business.
She is the author of the Wall Street Journal Best Seller, Every Job is a Sales Job: How to Use the Art of Selling to Win at Work, and as a popular and inspiring speaker, Dr. Cindy has presented at national and international conferences on a wide variety of sales, leadership and motivational topics. As the CEO of Orange Leaf Consulting, she has coached and guided companies and individuals to achieve professional success and sustainable revenue growth.
With a Doctorate Degree in Organizational Communication, she can quickly figure out what an organization or individual needs to be more successful, and her current knowledge of many industries keeps her abreast of best practices and the quickest route to success and growth.
Many true stories from her professional and personal lives serve as instructive examples of the principles and techniques she discusses throughout her book. Dr. Cindy’s highly successful career has created a strong foundation from which she now shares the fundamental elements of the art of selling.
Dr. Cindy knows that the key to real and lasting change is changing behavior to create great habits. It is all about sustainable sales activities and results. For those who are ready to do the work, she is ready to create the path. As she puts it: “Grow Big or Go Home!”
Wire Fraud and Cyber Risk Management
in the time of COVID
with Professor Rajeev Dhawan
Professor Rajeev Dhawan wears a dual hat as the holder of the Zwerner Chair of Economic Forecasting and as Director of the Economic Forecasting Center at the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. As director of one of the country’s premier forecasting centers, Dhawan develops forecasts for the U.S., Southeast regional, and local metro Atlanta economies. These forecasts are regularly published and presented to business executives and the media at the Center’s popular, well-respected quarterly forecasting conferences. Dhawan has received several awards for his forecasting accuracy, including SIX Pulsenomics Crystal Ball awards for accurate U.S. home price predictions from 2013 to 2019. The Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago has recognized him for his forecasting excellence for FOUR years in a row (real GDP in 2016, inflation in 2017, housing starts and private inventories in 2018, Trade Weighted Dollar in 2019). In 2005, he was named the most accurate forecaster for GDP by Bloomberg News. The Bank One Economic Outlook Center at Arizona State University in 2003 named him the most accurate forecaster for US employment.
A sought-after international speaker, Dhawan has presented at conferences in Abu Dhabi, Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Dubai, Finland, France, Germany, Japan, Netherland, New Zealand, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, U.K., and across the U.S. As a consultant, he has been commissioned to prepare economic impact reports, home price forecast models, and provide public policy recommendations. Dhawan has served as an advisor to several local and state government agencies and numerous publicly-held companies such as Coca-Cola, Georgia Power, Raymond James, and Turner Broadcasting, among others. Dhawan has directed impact analysis studies for Amgen, Northrop Grumman, LA Development Corporation, the California Automobile Import Alliance, and the California Energy Commission. He currently serves as the chair of the advisory committee for regional growth for the Atlanta Regional Commission and is also a member of the Georgia Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors since 2003.
Dhawan’s academic research analyzes U.S. business cycles with a special emphasis on the role of credit markets on the growth and survival of small firms. His international industry productivity comparison study examined factors that enabled Toyota to dominate not only U.S. companies, but also its Japanese counterparts. In his recent work, Dhawan has quantified the role and importance of oil prices in U.S. business cycle fluctuations. His research has been published in peer-reviewed academic journals such as Management Science, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Review of Economic Dynamics, Economic Inquiry, and Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization among others. He is also the author of Firm Size, Financial Intermediation and Business Cycles which explores the effect of liquidity constraints on U.S. economic performance.
Prior to joining Georgia State University in the fall of 2000, he served as director of Econometric Forecasting at the Business Forecasting Project of the Anderson School of Business at UCLA. He has also taught at Pepperdine University and California State University at Long Beach. Dhawan earned a B.A. in Economics, with honors, from St. Stephen’s College in India, a M.A. in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics in India, and a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of California at Los Angeles.
Wire Fraud and Cyber Risk Management
in the time of COVID
with Michele Green and Krista Christensen
Michele is Senior Vice President in the National Agency group at Fidelity National Financial. In this role, she advises the Company and its agents on various aspects of modern risk management, seeking to maximize revenue potential while minimizing instances of unintended loss. Michele has been in the title industry for 22 years, as Regional Claims Counsel, Senior Corporate Underwriting Counsel and General Counsel to Agency Operations. She is a regular speaker at regional and national events for title agents. Prior to joining the industry, Michele was in private practice, specializing in real estate and title insurance litigation.
Michele has a Bachelor of Business Administration from The University of Texas in Austin and received a Juris Doctorate from New England Law.
She is admitted to practice in all courts of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the State of Rhode Island.
