Real Estate Leadership Keynote Speaker
Attract Agents. Retain Top Talent. Build a Culture That Sells.
Betsy Allen-Manning is a nationally recognized
real estate leadership keynote speaker and
workplace culture strategist. She helps brokerages, property management groups, and multi-office teams create a Destination Workplace™; where top talent stays, culture drives performance, and leadership finally feels aligned.
Challenges Real Estate & Property Leaders Are Facing Today.
The real estate industry is at a tipping point. You’re not just managing properties or selling homes, you’re managing people under pressure.
Betsy Allen-Manning is a nationally recognized real estate leadership keynote speaker and culture consultant for property management companies. Through high-energy keynotes and research from the National Workplace Trends Study, she helps brokerages, multi-location firms, and property groups improve agent retention, reduce burnout, and build trust-driven leadership across all roles. Betsy has worked with some of the most recognized names in service-driven industries and is a featured speaker for top real estate associations and leadership events across the country, such as: Keller Williams, Univesco, Cohen Esrey, and ParaWest Management.
Burnout is Breaking Top Producers
Long hours, emotional clients, commission stress, and always being “on” is draining agents and property managers alike. If you don’t address it now, your best talent will burn out fast.
Mass Exodus of Agents
Retention is no longer about perks, it’s about purpose, leadership, and growth. When these are missing, turnover becomes your most expensive cost.
Toxic Competition & Disengaged Teams
Gossip, favoritism, and a lack of collaboration are destroying morale across many real estate offices. Without healthy communication, productivity and trust fall apart.
Leaders Without People Skills
top salespeople don't always make great leaders. In too many offices, managers lack the coaching, delegation, or communication skills needed to lead effectively.
Inconsistent Culture Across Offices
In multi-location brokerages or property groups, each office can feel like a different company. Without aligned values and leadership expectations, you get scattered culture, and retention issues.
No Path to Growth
In many brokerages and property firms, agents and support staff don’t see opportunities to grow. If you don’t develop your people, they will find a company who will.
Even in service-driven industries like real estate and property management, culture can collapse behind the scenes.
If trust is the foundation of your business, too many brokerages are building on shaky ground.
How Betsy Helps You Build Retention-Ready Culture & Leadership Alignment!
Whether your challenge is agent retention, manager inconsistency, burnout, or building a healthy office culture across multiple branches, Betsy brings frameworks that build loyalty, increase engagement, and unify your people.
CULTURE: Create a Mission Agents Want to Be Part Of.
Problem: In real estate, most agents are 1099s. That means culture isn’t “mandatory”; it’s either magnetic or invisible. Offices without clear purpose or values alignment become revolving doors. Brokerage culture development is more crucial than ever.
Solution: Betsy helps your leadership team build a culture people actually want to belong to; one that reflects your mission in how people lead, communicate, and serve. She teaches leaders how to translate purpose into practices that drive loyalty and production.
Deliverables:
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Culture Consultant for Real Estate Teams:
Align your office experience with what today’s agents want, and learn agent retention strategies.
✔ Culture Keynote for Broker/Owner Meetings and speaker for property management companies.
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Culture audit/diagnostics - Evaluate gaps in trust, purpose, and culture consistency across locations.
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Executive Strategy Sessions - Align leadership teams to model and reinforce core cultural values and become a Destination Workplace™ in the Real Estate and Property Management industry.
VIEW THE KEYNOTE: Becoming a Destination Workplace™
Book This KeynoteIdeal for: Broker-Owners & Managing Brokers Broker-Owners / Regional Directors / Franchise Area Developers / Owners/Executives of Property Management Firms
- Understand what today’s workforce truly values in culture, leadership & purpose
- Learn how to reduce turnover by improving the employee experience in 5 key areas
- Use NWTS data to benchmark and improve your workplace reputation and retention
Becoming a Destination Workplace™-How to Attract Top Talent, Drive Accountability, and Build a Culture People Never Want to Leave
The war for talent isn’t coming, it’s here. And most companies are losing.
In this data-backed program, leadership and culture strategist Betsy Allen-Manning walks executive teams through the Destination Workplace™ Framework—a proven roadmap to assess, align, and improve your employee experience so you can finally build a culture that attracts, engages, and retains top performers.
You’ll learn why 70% of leaders believe they have a great culture, but only 28% of employees agree, and how to close that gap by building an employee experience that actually matches your leadership narrative. This program isn’t about theory. It’s about measurable transformation, designed for organizations ready to lead the culture change, instead of complaining about it.
The Destination Workplace™ Roadmap:
•Assess the Gap: Diagnose your culture gaps before they cost you talent.
•Align the Message: Link your mission, vision, and values to your desired behaviors.
•Elevate the Experience: Understand the 5 employee experiences that shape retention & loyalty.
•Execute & Measure: Create initiative-based accountability & success metrics through feedback loops to ensure leaders stay aligned.
•Join the Movement: Retention is your new reputation. Let's make it official!
Backed by research and real-world results, Betsy combines data, storytelling, and leadership experience to help you stop guessing and start creating a workplace that works.
*real estate leadership keynote speaker - Betsy Allen-Manning / culture speaker for real estate / Property management leadership keynote speaker
LEADERSHIP: Develop Managers Agents Trust & Respect
Problem: Many brokerages promote high-performing agents into leadership, but don’t train them to lead people. The result? Inconsistent office cultures, reactive leadership, and a trust gap between agents and managers.
Solution: Betsy trains team leaders and managing brokers on how to lead with trust, accountability, and clarity. She provides tools to improve performance coaching, handle conflict, and increase leadership credibility across branches or portfolios.
Deliverables:
✔Real Estate Leadership Training – Develop the 6 power skills your team leads and brokers need (coaching, communication, delegation, time management, attracting talent, and behavior accountability).
✔Broker/Owner & Management keynotes - Help leaders retain agents by supporting—not just supervising | Keynote Speaker for Real Estate Conferences.
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Emerging leader development - Train your future-ready leaders to ensure a strong succession plan.
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Leadership & Culture Alignment Retreats - Get all leaders on the same page around performance, culture, and growth through real estate leadership coaching.
VIEW THE KEYNOTE: The Destination Workplace Leader
Book This KeynoteFor: brokers/owners, senior leaders, and emerging leaders in real estate
- Build trust, respect, and communication with staff.
- Learn 6 vital skills for leading under pressure in today’s real estate climate
- Create alignment with values, leadership behaviors, and a sense of team.
- Leadership training for real estate teams.
The Destination Workplace™ Leader - How to Build Trust, Model Culture, and Multiply Your Impact at Every Level
Paycheck leaders will only ever produce paycheck employees.
The type of leader you are determines whether you will inspire ownership… or apathy. Whether you’re leading a team of 2 or a company of 2,000, one truth remains: the culture around you starts with the character within you. In this inspiring and highly interactive keynote, Betsy Allen-Manning equips current and emerging leaders with the mindset, behaviors, and leadership presence required to create a Destination Workplace™—where trust runs deep, growth is constant, and values actually mean something.
Built around her 4-part Destination Workplace™ Leadership Framework, this keynote gives your leaders practical tools to elevate how they lead, how they show up, and how they multiply impact across your organization.
The Destination Workplace™ Leadership Model:
1. Build Character: A leader's character is contagious. Learn how to model trust, respect & ownership.
2. Develop Skills: Discover the 6 Power Skills every modern leader needs for today's workforce.
3. Model Culture: Discover how to operationalize core values into consistent, modeled behavior.
4. Multiply Your Impact: Learn how to build a pipeline of leaders, so the mission doesn't stop with you.
*real estate leadership keynote speaker - Betsy Allen-Manning / culture speaker for real estate / Property management leadership keynote speaker
WELL-BEING: Prevent Burnout in a 24/7 Sales Environment
Problem: Real estate never turns off, and it’s burning people out. Long hours, commission pressure, and “hustle culture” are leading to emotional exhaustion, especially among your rising stars.
Solution: Betsy’s Reset & Recharge™ program helps sales teams and support staff identify burnout triggers, rewire habits, and re-energize through high-engagement workshops that combine brain science, fun, and real transformation.
Deliverables:
✔Reset & Recharge
Wellness Keynote - for real estate & property management teams, and brokerage-wide staff days.
✔ Reset & Recharge Wellness workshop & workplace wellness strategies for real estate offices- Help agents rebuild energy without losing production.
✔Well-being programs for property management teams - Combat stress in field staff & corporate employees.
✔ Wellness & Team-Building Retreats
- Custom well-being activities with interactive brain games, wellness discussions and live implementation exercises.
VIEW THE WELLNESS KEYNOTE: Reset & Recharge
Book This KeynotePerfect for property management and real estate team meetings and retreats
- Reduce burnout and increase resilience across brokerages.
- Build stronger collaboration and trust
- Interactive format with team-building, brainteasers, and workplace wellness strategies
Reset & Recharge-The High-Energy Experience That Eliminates Stress, Negativity & Burnout Fast
Fueled by energy. Interactive experience. Applicable results.
This isn’t your typical sit-and-listen keynote. In this high-energy, unforgettable experience, Betsy Allen-Manning brings the fun and the facts to help you transform your mindset, recharge your motivation, and build resilience for whatever work (or life) throws your way. Designed for high-stress teams, burnt-out leaders, exhausted parents, or conferences that need an energizing boost. Backed by science, performance habits, and a whole lot of fun, this isn't just motivation...it's activation.
The 'Reset & Recharge' Framework:
•Reduce stress and Negativity: Identify triggers that drain you, and get quick reset tools to recover.
•Build Better Habits: Upgrade your daily decisions to support energy, consistency, and boundaries.
•Eliminate Burnout: Own your agenda before it owns you. Discover time mastery tools that reduce overwhelm.
•Become Resilient: Learn how to show up strong, even during seasons of setbacks.
Through games, brainteasers, dancing (yes—dancing!), and audience engagement, Betsy turns personal development into a full-on experience.
✔️ Laughter? Guaranteed.
✔️ Takeaways? Actionable.
✔️ Energy in the room? Through the roof.
If your people need a reset, this is the keynote that delivers it, in the most fun, refreshing way possible.
*real estate leadership keynote speaker - Betsy Allen-Manning / culture speaker for real estate / Property management leadership keynote speaker / real estate burnout and well-being speaker
TEAM & BELONGING: Rebuild Trust & Communication in a Competitive Environment
Problem: When agents are in competition with each other, and managers don’t step in, trust erodes. Property teams, too, often feel siloed and unsupported.
Solution: Betsy trains teams to communicate across styles, resolve conflict before it festers, and build trust across roles and offices. Her DISC-based team-building programs are designed for high-volume, fast-moving environments like real estate.
Deliverables:
✔DISC workshops for real estate offices - Improve collaboration, reduce misunderstandings, and deal with difficult people effectively.
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Property Management team-building retreats - High-trust team activities. Interactive exercises that promote transparency, active listening, and collaboration.
✔Conflict/resolution strategies - Address tension and misunderstandings before they erode trust.
✔Real Estate Leadership Keynote Speaker - Energize your workforce and reconnect disconnected teams through shared values and goals.
✔Real estate team building speaker.
VIEW THE WORKPLACE COMMUNICATION KEYNOTE: People Savvy
Book This KeynoteIdeal for: Real Estate and Property Management Teams & leadership
People Savvy-Master Communication. Build Connection. Handle Anyone with Confidence.
Did you know that 85% of your success in life and business has nothing to do with your technical skills and everything to do with how well you work with people?
The problem? People are complicated. Different personalities. Conflicting communication styles. Awkward conversations. Missed signals. Misunderstandings. Sound familiar?
In this highly interactive (and hilariously accurate) keynote, human behavior expert Betsy Allen-Manning teaches your audience how to become People Savvy™—the kind of person who can build instant rapport, defuse drama, and handle difficult people with confidence.
In this presentation, Betsy reveals a powerful, research-backed framework that helps people read others quickly, communicate more clearly, and connect across every kind of personality. This experience will get you up out of your seat, laughing, learning, and walking away with the single most important skill for success in life and leadership: how to understand people.
You’ll Discover How To:
•Identify Personalities Quickly: Discover key signals so you can spot personality styles fast.
•Avoid Common Mistakes: Prevent communication breakdowns before they happen.
•Lead and Influence people who aren't like you.
•Handle Difficult People without losing your cool.
•Build Strong Connections at work, home, and anywhere in between.
Whether you're leading a team, raising a family, managing clients, or navigating conflict, this experience will change the way you show up in every conversation.
*real estate leadership keynote speaker - Betsy Allen-Manning / culture speaker for real estate / Property management leadership keynote speaker
GROWTH & PERFORMANCE: Coach Agents to Contribute and Stay
Problem: Agents don’t leave because of leads; they leave because of lack of leadership, growth, and coaching. If they don’t see a path forward, they’ll look elsewhere.
Solution: Betsy trains your leaders to create growth conversations, identify high-potential agents, and give feedback that fuels both performance and loyalty. She also builds development paths for emerging leaders, office managers, and support staff.
Deliverables:
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High-Performance motivational keynote Speeches. Keynote speaker for real estate conferences & property management conferences.
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Emerging leader programs for high-potential staff. Equip leaders to support employee development, not just performance reviews.
✔Upskilling & Performance Development Workshops - Boost retention, culture, performance, and sense of team through meaningful professional growth
VIEW THE KEYNOTE: DNA Of High-Achieving Teams
Book This KeynoteIdeal for: All Agents and Staff, Teams, Motivational Events
DNA of High Achievers- Develop the Mindset, Strategy, & Execution to Achieve Next-Level Success
Most people chase success...high-achievers engineer it.
In this unforgettable and high-impact experience, Betsy Allen-Manning shares the breakthrough habits and performance strategies she’s learned from interviewing elite performers—from champion UFC fighters to 8-figure entrepreneurs to leaders breaking glass ceilings.
You'll discover the COMMIT Method™—six strategic behaviors that separate those who get by… from those who stand out, level up, and go ALL IN. Whether you're chasing a promotion, your next high-level milestone, or your most courageous version of you, this keynote delivers the clarity, strategy, and execution plan to help you close the gap between where you are and who you're called to be. This program isn’t just about motivation—it’s about activation.
The COMMIT Method™
Clarify Goals: Define your purpose, priorities & plan.
Obtain New Skills: The skills that got you to your current level won't get you to your next.
Master Your Time: Own your agenda like your legacy depends on it.
Make Success Habits: Your habits either contribute to or contaminate your life.
Build a Strong Inner Circle: Your inner circle is either growing you or slowing you.
Develop Tenacity: Life will always throw curveballs; you just need to learn how to hit them.
*real estate leadership keynote speaker - Betsy Allen-Manning / culture speaker for real estate / Property management leadership keynote speaker
What Real Estate & Property Management Leaders Are Saying
“Betsy’s presentation was fantastic.The part that really helped me was whether someone is either focused on getting a task done or building a relationship, and by determining between the two can make or break your connection with them."
John - Univesco
"We had the best leadership training with Betsy. We learned that besides focusing on just the bottom line, to also think about our legacy as leaders. Betsy partnered with our executive team, and from there we brought her in to train leaders in all of our locations."
Caprice - ParaWest Management
"Betsy had great tips, unparalleled energy and had unbelievable chemistry with the audience. Her speech not only impacted me, but it's going to impact every single person on my team that I can now empower."
Stephanie - Asset Plus
ABOUT BETSY
Founder & CEO of Award-Winning Leadership & Culture Firm, Destination Workplace™.
Featured on FOX, ABC, NBC, CBS & TEDx, Betsy Allen-Manning is a nationally recognized real estate leadership keynote speaker, workplace strategist, and founder of Destination Workplace™. With a background in behavioral science and over 15,000 leaders and teams trained, Betsy delivers retention-focused leadership solutions that drive performance, reduce turnover, and create alignment across multi-location brokerages and property management organizations. She’s worked with service-based industries across the U.S., from high-performing real estate teams to multi-site operations, such as Keller Williams, Asset Plus, Cohen Esrey, & ParaWest Management, to help leaders develop trust, agents stay loyal, and company culture become a competitive advantage.
Her signature Destination Workplace™ Framework was built from data gathered in her National Workplace Trends Study, and it's designed to solve your specific retention, culture, and leadership problems:
✅ High agent turnover
✅ Inconsistent leadership across offices
✅ Low engagement in distributed teams
✅ Culture collapse after rapid growth
Betsy’s programs blend practical tools, research-backed frameworks, and high-energy delivery that leave your team both inspired and equipped to build a workplace where people want to stay.
• Leadership strategies tailored for high-pressure, fast-moving industries
• Real estate-specific solutions for improving retention and agent loyalty
• Communication tools to reduce friction between offices and teams
• Practical ways to build purpose, trust, and career growth into your culture
• Burnout prevention strategies for field teams and top producers
For real estate brokerages, property management firms, and franchise groups looking to build culture, boost retention, and lead their teams more effectively,
Betsy Allen-Manning is the ideal speaker or consultant to elevate your workforce—starting at the top.
BETSY IS ONE OF THE MOST RE-BOOKED REAL ESTATE SPEAKERS IN DALLAS!
Watch Her High Energy & Interactive Keynotes To See Why!
"When we got the evals from our audience members we immediately booked Betsy to come back the next year!"
-Jackie H.
Stop putting Band-Aids on a Broken Culture. Let's Diagnose, and Fix the Root Cause.
You can’t deliver a five-star client experience with a team that’s exhausted, disengaged, and disconnected from leadership.
According to the National Workplace Trends Study:
• 49% of Gen Z professionals report high burnout.
• 42% of employees are already job hunting.
• 57% say distrust in leadership is why they quit.
When agents are burned out, property staff are overwhelmed, and managers are untrained or unavailable, turnover becomes inevitable—and culture collapse is only a matter of time. Using the Destination Workplace™ Framework, Betsy Allen-Manning helps brokerages and property firms:
✅ Improve agent retention
✅ Align managers and team leads
✅ Rebuild morale
✅ Create a workplace where people apply, engage, contribute, promote—and stay.
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If you're serious about reducing turnover, improving leadership,and creating a culture where your best people want to stay—this is your call to take action.
Betsy Allen-Manning has helped organizations across real estate, property management, and service-based industries create cultures that retain top talent, develop future-ready leaders, and boost engagement across all levels. Now it's your turn.
Let’s fix what’s broken. Let’s train your leaders. Let’s build your Destination Workplace™ together!
✅ Keynotes • ✅ Training • ✅ Team Retreats • ✅ Certification