About Your True North

DesiréePatno is the CEO and President of Women in the Housing and Real Estate Ecosystem (NAWRB) and DesiréePatno Enterprises, Inc. (DPE). With almost three decades specializing in the Housing and Real Estate Ecosystem, she leads her executive team’s expertise of championing women’s economic growth and independence. Representing Fortune 100 companies in their relocation needs and selling thousands of properties across multiple platforms, she brings insider knowledge to NAWRB’s mission of advancing women and women-owned businesses.

As Chairwoman of NAWRB’s Diversity & Inclusion Leadership Council (NDILC), she oversees the Council's efforts to raise the number of women leaders and grow women's employment and empowerment at all levels in the housing ecosystem. NAWRB has raised awareness of diverse opportunities, supporting the development and implementation of workforce and supplier diversity standards for the multi-trillion dollar housing sector since 2010.

Desirée resides on the Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP) Leadership Advisory Council and Enterprising Women Advisory Board. The Council for Inclusion in Financial Services (CIFS) gave Desiree the Trailblazer Award in 2018, which honors influencers whose diversity and inclusion initiatives are transforming the industry and community. In 2017, she was named the Highest-Ranking Woman and 4th Overall Top Real Estate Influencer to Follow by Entrepreneur.com, presented On the Margins of the 72nd U.N. General Assembly, The Intersection between Gender Diversity, Innovation and Economic Sustainability, and received the Connected Women of Influence Women’s Advocate of the Year Award and Walker’s Legacy Power25 Award. In 2016, she was honored with HousingWire’s Women of Influence Award and was selected as the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) Women in Business Champion of the Year.

In 2012, Desiree won the prestigious Enterprising Women of the Year Award, as well as HousingWire's Women of Influence Award for the first time. NAWRB is honored to be one of only 11 organizations listed as a Women’s Entrepreneurship Partner for the SBA.

Desiree is the Publisher of NAWRB Magazine—winner of the APEX Award for Publication Excellence in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018—and is a monthly contributor to RISMedia’s Real Estate Magazine, National Mortgage Professional Magazine,Inman and various industry publications.

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Rick DeLuca’s record speaks for itself:
He sold 42 homes his first year in business.
He has earned both Salesman of the Year and Realtor of the Year honors from
the State of Nevada.
In a 200,000 market population, Rick averaged nearly 200 sales per year for six
consecutive years.
And, his most productive year ever? Rick closed 292 transactions!
Regardless of your experience level, Rick promises to share systems that will both
increase your production and allow you to work smarter, rather than just harder.
Real Estate Career – 1975 to 1990
Averaged over 200 closed transactions for 6 consecutive years
292 Closed transactions in the highest producing year
Reno Board of Realtors – “Salesman Of The Year”
Nevada Association of Realtors – “Realtor Of The Year”
CRS National instructor from 1982 to 1992
National CRS President in 1988
National RNMI President in 1992
Nominated as “National Trainer of the Year”
One of three instructors for NAR’s Instructor Development Workshop
Author of Speech Smarts: How To Become A Dynamic Speaker!
Spoken at every national franchise convention

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My autobiography is not a Horatio Alger story, or maybe it is a little bit. Born during the Great Depression, I grew up poor but first tried my hand at being an entrepreneur when I was six or seven years old. I sold bottles of soda pop each afternoon at a neighborhood construction site, and there are still so many similar opportunities for kids today.

A decade later, I talked my way into college, though perhaps I did not really belong there. I was able to pay all of my tuition and expenses by always working and by being forever frugal. Soon after graduation, I made a point of paying back a single $50 scholarship award by making a $50 contribution to my alma mater, and I have continued giving to the university—and many other recipients—ever since.

I became a serial entrepreneur in earnest, and then a philanthropist, after first working all over the country with two national consumer-products firms. In 1964, I spent $4,000 to purchase my first real business, a hundred-year-old manufacturer of fruit-juice-beverage bases, which I quickly expanded by providing refrigerated dispensers and drinks to several hundred colleges and universities.

With the million-dollar proceeds from the sale of that business in 1970, I founded a suburban-Boston commercial real estate firm. Cummings Properties quickly grew from one small building to a portfolio of more than 100 modern buildings today. Along the way, we accumulated uncommon wealth, much of which my wife, Joyce, and I have been actively disbursing through Cummings Foundation, which we established together in 1986.

Joyce and I were the first Massachusetts couple to join the Giving Pledge, an international philanthropic organization founded by Bill and Melinda Gates and Warren Buffet. We have been honored to receive dozens of community honors and accolades, including those from Ernst & Young, the Irish International Immigrant Center, the Archdiocese of Boston, and NAIOP, the association for the commercial real estate development industry. We have both received several honorary doctoral degrees and have three times served as college commencement speakers. In 2012, the Boston Globe named Joyce and me runners-up as Greater Bostonians of the Year.

We also received a Friend of Israel award, and Boston Business Journal named me the Real Estate Visionary of the Year in 2014. More recently, in 2017, the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce named Joyce and me to its Academy of Distinguished Bostonians. We have lived together in Winchester, Massachusetts, for fifty years.

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Bob Donnell is regarded as an authority in the area of Human Behavior. As a Human Behaviorist and Interventionist he has been instrumental in helping thousands, working with teams and individuals get even better results, both personally and professionally.

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Mark Metry is the Founder of VU Dream, a marketing & brand
agency founded and operating in Boston, Massachusetts
working with startups, individuals & corporations to help
customers imagine new future realities in the fields of emerging
technology like virtual reality and podcasting.
Mark is also the Host of the Global Top 100 podcast called
Humans 2.0 featured by Forbes, NASDAQ and Yahoo Finance as
the "Top 21 Growing Podcasts you must listen to in 2019." Mark's
show has been listened to over 4 million times and features the
greatest leaders of our time and frequently converses with
Billionaires, Professional Athletes, Pulitzer Prize-winning
journalists and New York Times Bestselling authors exploring
today's dynamic of the human experience in modern
technological times of 2019.
Key Points
● First generation immigrant born in Boston, Mass 1997 of Parents
from Egypt and came with $200 only.
● At the Age of 7 went on Local Public Television after Winning Art
Competition
● Faced autoimmune based health issues during childhood &
adolescence like asthma, ADD, IBS, appendicitis, insomnia, and more.
● Endured severe social anxiety from a young age until 18 years old.
● Started a YouTube Channel in 2010 and gained over 35,000
subscribers and earned a paying partnership with a Network.
● In 2013, started the World’s #1 Minecraft Server and was the start of a
six-figure business at the age of 15.
● 2016 hit rock bottom weighing over 200 lbs and depressed after
discovering I was on the wrong path in life and was trying to be
somebody else and not my true self.
● November, 2016 I drew the line in the sand and began the quest of
becoming a Human v2.0 and living a mentally healthy lifestyle.
● December, 2016 started VU Dream, a technology acceleration agency
on the edge of the growing exponential technologies industry.
● August, 2017 began the creation of Humans 2.0 Podcast
● August, 2018 Apple iTunes ranked Mark Metry’s Humans 2.0 Podcast
in the Global Top 100 Podcasts among Gary Vaynerchuk, Tim Ferriss,
NPR, Lewis Howes’ School of Greatness and more.

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Debra Trappen is an empowerment coach, consultant, author, podcaster, and keynote speaker. She lives to FIRE PEOPLE UPand is compelled to ignite passion, infuse purpose, and inspire progress!



She is focused on serving growth-minded leaders – with a passion for sparking GenX Women building their slice of the kingdom from the couch, carpool, cubicle, or corner office. Debra starts at the core by helping them uncover the BEST version of themselves – who they are, what talents and activities fuel them and their purpose, and who they are meant to serve. This translates into a life, brand, business culture, and attitude that all shine online to attract ideal connections and grow influence… for those ready to design a life and business that fires them up!



A sought-after keynote speaker and voice of women’s empowerment movements, Debra’s been spotlighted and interviewed on several platforms, publications, and media outlets, including Inman News, RESA, National Women’s Council, National Association of REALTORS®, Maverick CEO, Agent Caffeine, The Inspired Woman Project, The Money Hour, How She Built It, realtor.com, RETechCampus, and Homes.com.



When she is not idea-storming her next adventure, reading-writing-recording in her Fire Up! studio, or sprinkling moxie from the stage – you will find her walking her pups, editing photos on her iPhone, watching Sci-Fi and 80’s flicks, or wine tasting with her husband and besties!



Her first book, Fire Up! Taking Your Life and Business to 11 is available here debratrappen.com/fire-up-book.


If you are ready to design a life and business that fires you up, visit debratrappen.com.


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For nearly 5 decades the deep channel of Bob's life has been the real estate profession. Serving in many levels of leadership, became a team and people builder as a speaker, coach and mentor to thousands who Bob came in contact with. Today he is the Director of Leadership for EXIT Realty Corp, International. With a gentle style, strength, creativity and decisiveness, Bob is an effective leader. True north has not always been consistent, Bob will tell you but hard lessons must be learned the hard way on our journey to becoming the best we can. Bob has been heard saying that "I am becoming the next best version on myself."

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EXIT Realty Corp International’s CEO TAMI BONNELL is an internationally
renowned leader in the real estate industry and was instrumental in building
three major brands. Among her many achievements, she was recognized by Real
Estate trend watcher, Stephan Swanepoel, three years consecutively as one of
the 200 most Powerful and influential people in residential real estate, among
the top 20 corporate executives and among the top 10 women leaders.

Ms. Bonnell has been a featured speaker at the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF
REALTOR’S® convention to the Top 500 power brokers, The National Women’s
Council REALTORS®, Inman News Connect Conference and the RIS Media’s
Leadership Conference.
She was named to the National Association of Women in Housing & Real Estate
Ecosystem ( NAWRB) Diversity & Inclusion Leadership Council (NDLIC).
Ms. Bonnell was honored by STEM connector as one of it’s 100 Corporate
Women Leaders in STEM (science, technology, engineering and math).
Ms. Bonnell is a 30 plus year veteran of the real estate industry and joined EXIT
Realty in 1999. She was appointed Chief Executive Officer in 2012.

She is a wife, mother of three and grandmother of three. In her spare time she
is a martial artist, coach and referee.

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John Packes has been a key influencer in the technology and innovation space since 1998. He has worked with major corporations to conceptualize product enhancements and technology innovations across verticals including gaming, retail, internet, e-commerce and more.


Over the past decade John has founded two technology innovation and production companies serving Fortune 100 and 500 clients and has successfully brought a variety of digital products to market both as inventor and consultant. He is a named inventor on over 60 US and International patents.


John was appointed EXIT Realty’s Director of Innovation and Technology in 2015 and Chief Technology Officer in 2018, overseeing all of EXIT’s technology and programming teams.



Awards and Recognition with EXIT Realty:

2018 – Award of Excellence


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Jimmy Delay has excelled as a business development specialist for more than 18 years.
With dogged determination in 2002 he began recruiting for Exit Team Realty growing
the office to more than 540 agents, and lending his skills to build Exit offices nationwide.
Having earned a reputation in the industry as an unparalleled recruiter at Exit Realty, in
2012, Jimmy was offered a position with American Equity Mortgage to grow their
purchase mortgage division.
Soon after, in 2014 Jimmy was made National Business Development Manager with
AnnieMac Home Mortgage based out of Mt. Laurel, NJ. Since then Jimmy has helped
countless mortgage branch managers and loan officers double, and even triple their
production after joining AnnieMac.
Jimmy’s driving force is to make AnnieMac Home Mortgage better with every new
person that joins, and hearing from them a year later that joining AnnieMac was the best
choice they could have made.

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