Featured Speakers

The Triangle Sales & Marketing Council features national level speakers during its monthly breakfasts. Below are some of the sought after speakers who have brought their presentations to the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill market. Our featured speakers list from 2012 includes:

If you are looking for a smart solution when it comes to corporate training and education, invite one of them to present to your company!

  

Roland Nairnsey, CSP, is Senior Vice President of Training and Development for Bob Schultz & The New Home Sales Specialists, The Global Leader in New Home Sales Training & Management Systems. A highly experienced and successful new home sales professional, trainer, coach and motivator, Roland has been teaching The Official New Home Sales Development System® worldwide, with his students achieving dramatic and measurable sales results.
 
Roland, along with Bob Schultz & The New Home Specialists team of facilitators and coaches, conduct more than 400 custom sales and management training seminars and workshops annually to thousands of salespeople, builders, developers, Realtors® and housing manufacturers throughout the world, through in-company programs, live video conferencing and online training programs.
 
Roland is a regularly featured presenter at the National Association of Home Builders’ International Builder’s Show - Super Sales Rally, Sales Management Summit, and Closing Strategies seminars. He is a frequent contributor and Editorial Advisor to Sales + Marketing Ideas magazine.
 
Contact Roland:
Phone: 561-368-1151
 
 
Kerry Mulcrone, President of Kerry & Co., a New Home Sales Training and Coaching company based in Minnesota, has been selling, training and teaching in the new home sales arena since 1986.
 
With 25+ years of hands-on experience, from being a top award winning salesperson and a new home sales manager, to the Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Kerry is known for her enthusiastic, motivational yet realistic and practical style of sales training and coaching. Her many years in the new home sales market combined with her background in teaching and coaching, make her a specialist in the new home sales field and well-suited as an educator. She has been providing organizations and clients with insight and perspective to boost their company and customer growth.  Kerry is on the Executive Board at the Builders Association of the Twin Cities and a National Sales and Marketing Council Member. She is also a PWB Committee Member and published magazine contributor and author as well as an endorsed speaker for the International Builders Show. Kerry introduced her SOLD OUT book, Model Home Model Store: THINK RETAIL!, at the 2012 International Builders Show.
 
Contact Kerry:
Phone: 612-817-4089
 
 
 
Jane Meagher, MIRM, CSP, CAASH, is President of Success Strategies.   Success Strategies is the nation’s leading Design Studio creation, strategy and training company. Jane's company creates cutting-edge, national-award winning design studios of all sizes; provides design studio strategic operational analyses; offers the industry's most powerful design studio training program for Sales and Design Studio staff.  Jane writes a popular blog entitled “Think Like a Consumer/Act Like A Retailer” which is featured on Builder Magazine’s/Hanley Wood’s  www.builderonline.com website.  Jane’s unparalleled credentials make her uniquely positioned to convey an in-depth mastery of the Design Studio world.
 
Success Strategies works with leading builders and suppliers in over 35 states and Canada, including leading builders in many of the nation’s top housing markets.  Jane works with builders ranging in size from national Top 10 Builders to regional market leaders to smaller, local builders, as well as leading suppliers such as Kohler, Moen, Shaw, etc.
 
Jane has over 25 years experience as a professional in new home marketing and sales among a wide variety of applications.  Her background includes such varied positions as Senior Market Analyst for the prestigious housing market research firm, the William E. Becker Organization; Vice President of Sales & Marketing for the national award-winning merchandising firm The Childs/Dreyfus Group; Rookie of the Year as a New Home Salesperson with K. Hovnanian Companies; and publisher of The New Homes Guide. Jane also functioned as an outsourced Sales and Marketing Consultant for many builders, generating national award winning communities and marketing programs.
 
Jane is a sought-after lecturer and has been a featured speaker at NAHB’s International Builder Show for over 10 years, and has spoken at virtually every major industry conference/event, including the Pacific Coast Builders Conference, the Southeast Builders Conference, the Midwest Builders Conference, the Atlantic Builders Conference, Builder Magazine’s Big Builder Conference, the National Kitchen and Bath Associations’ KBIS Conference, the Presidential Conference, and many more. 
 
Contact Jane:
Phone: 732-761-8134
 
 
Meredith Oliver, aka The Digital Diva, is an Internet sales and marketing expert. She is a professional speaker, consultant and author.
 
She is the founder and president of Creating WOW Communications; a Web marketing and sales training company delivering services such as website development, search engine optimization and social media marketing. Creating WOW Communications works with a variety of industries including marketing for home builders, senior communities, apartment communities, professional speakers, associations and small businesses.
 
Meredith holds a Masters Degree in Communication Technology from the prestigious Rollins College and a Bachelors of Arts degree from the University of Central Florida majoring in Psychology. Meredith has 10 years of Internet Marketing experience developing websites and online campaigns for small and medium size businesses.
 
She is a professional speaker delivering keynote speeches, workshops, webinars and seminars. She speaks most often to business owners and sales people in the housing industry. She has spoken to a number of industries, including home building, general real estate, healthcare, education, association, insurance, technology, and temporary staffing.
 
Meredith is a published author of two books, Click Power and The Fan Factor. Both books are available online and at her seminars. She is the author of numerous social media video tutorials and a social media boot camp.
 
She holds the MIRM (Master of Residential Marketing) and MCSP (Master Certified Sales Person) designations. She is the second vice-chair of the Institute of Residential Marketing. Meredith is also a member of the Triangle Sales & Marketing Council of the Home Builders Association of Wake County.
 
Contact Meredith:
Phone: 866-227-9769
 
 
Donna Cutting, CSP is the President and CEO of Red-Carpet Learning Systems and the author of The Celebrity Experience: Insider Secrets to Delivering Red-Carpet Customer Service. She helps leaders get repeat business and referrals by engaging their team in improving the customer experience.
 
Through Red-Carpet Learning Systems, Donna speaks and develops training programs for small and large corporations and associations and has been featured in national, regional and local media. Donna is also a CSP or Certified Speaking Professional, an earned designation granted by the National Speakers Association and held by less than 10% of speakers in NSA and the International Federation of Professional Speakers.
 
Donna is a nationally recognized expert in employee engagement and customer service. A former stage actress turned author – speaker – training consultant, Donna helps leaders create places where employees get Standing Ovations and customers have a Celebrity Experience. She knows how to create red-carpet moments for others in our professional lives.
 
Contact Donna:
Phone: 800-519-0434
 
 

J. Van Rose, Jr. is the President of Rose & Womble Realty, New Homes Division and Rose & Womble Enterprises, a land development company. A Naval Academy Graduate and former Naval flight officer, Van joined Rose & Womble in 1984.

 Since joining the real estate industry, Van has created one of the most vertically integrated new home companies in the United States. He helped to grow his company from 25 people to over 800 in the past 20 years. In 2006, Rose & Womble accomplished 1.4 billion in sales. Over the past 25 years, his company has sold over 20,000 new homes and he has personally trained over 100,000 sales people across the country. 
 
As a nationally recognized motivational speaker, Van has spoken to over 250,000 people across the nation. He was recently awarded the Legend of Residential Marketing honor for 2008 by the National Association of Home Builders Sales and Marketing Council. Van speaks from his heart and shares the deepest joys, sorrows, and experiences over the years to make a difference in the lives of his audience. This is his passion.
 
Contact Van:
Phone: 757-935-9010
 
 
  
 Mike Lyon has “real world” knowledge and first-hand experience in the realm of online marketing and sales for homebuilders. He delivers his information from the trenches and draws from his diverse background in online advertising, digital design and internet sales.

With his energetic and entertaining speaking style, Mike has brought to life the topics of internet marketing, sales and technology at events across the country.

He is a highly sought after consultant and has contributed to the success of homebuilders and real estate companies all across the nation. He is the bestselling author of Browsers to Buyers: Proven Strategies for Selling New Homes Online and the recently released Social Media Guide for Real Estate.

Contact Mike:
Phone: 888-358-1269