RExpo Speakers

Keynote Speaker:

Topic: Social Media and the Future of Business

Marki Lemons is a Broker, REALTOR®, and Real Estate Educator. She is also an international best-selling author of The Modern Real Estate Professional's Guide to Success.

YPN Panel Speaker
Topic: How to successfully implement video into your business strategy
 

In real estate nearly 30 years, Atlanta real estate broker Glennda Baker specializes in the residential real estate arena. Recognized nationally by Newsweek’s America’s Best Agents, Glennda is renowned for her local expertise and global connections. As the leader of an all-female real estate team, The Diamond Squad, Glennda’s keen eye for marketing and an out-of-the-box thinking attitude, have built her signature real estate brand. In the last year Glennda has taken over short form video platforms, TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. With her direct no nonsense, southern sass style the Glenndarattis, nearly a million loyal fans and followers have racked up hundreds of millions of views on the videos she posts daily! TikTok has coined her account one of the stickiest on the platform where she averages nearly 2 million views a week with 31% of viewers watching start to finish multiple times. Industry leaders refer to Glennda as the most recognized face in real estate. As the Queen of Real Estate Video, Glennda isn’t afraid to shoot it straight when she shares her love and passion for real estate to impact, inform and inspire buyers and sellers all over the world to create generational wealth through real estate as well as level up the real estate agent community.

Economic Forecast Speaker

Topic: Southern CA Economic Forecast

Jerry Nickelsburg joined the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the UCLA Anderson Forecast in 2006. Since 2017, he has served as faculty director of the Forecast. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from the University of Minnesota, specializing in monetary economics and econometrics.

Nickelsburg plays a key role in the economic modeling and forecasting of the national, California and regional economic forecasts. He has conducted special studies for the UCLA Anderson Forecast on the future of manufacturing in Los Angeles, the economic impact of the writers’ strike, the undocumented construction and manufacturing labor force, and the garment industry. His current research is on transportation and labor markets focusing on the development of new data and the application of economic theory and statistical methods to sector-specific policy issues.

Nickelsburg teaches economics in UCLA Anderson’s MBA program, with a focus on business forecasting and international business economics. He travels regularly with students to Asia as professor and advisor in their global immersion courses.

Formerly a professor of economics at the University of Southern California, Nickelsburg held executive positions with McDonnell Douglas, FlightSafety International and FlightSafety Boeing during a 15-year span in the aviation business. He developed forecasting tools for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and has advised banks, investors and financial institutions. From 2000 to 2006, he was the managing principal of Deep Blue Economics, a consulting firm he founded.

Global Investment Opportunities

C.A.R. Legal Update Speaker:

Jana Gardner is Senior Counsel with the California Association of REALTORS®. Since joining C.A.R. in 2014, she has primarily focused on advising members through the Legal Hotline as well as presenting legal update outreaches and teaching classes on disclosures and the Residential Purchase Agreement. Additionally, Jana prepares legal resources such as Legal Q&As and Quick Guides and also co-hosts C.A.R.'s Legal Matters Podcast.

Jana received her bachelor’s degree in Social Science from San Diego State University and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Southern California.

A common thread throughout the stories shared in the WomanUP!® Community is imposter syndrome. These leaders will share their limiting beliefs and the journey of how when they stopped listening to the self-sabotaging thoughts and started digging into their true, authentic selves…the possibilities became endless.

Moderator-

Lori Namazi- REALTOR®

Speakers-

Lisa Dunn- REALTOR®
Rhonda Keliipio- Broker
Rita Tayenaka- Broker