Fireside chat with 37-year mortgage industry leader, Rob Chrisman, author of the required reading for any mortgage banking stakeholders, the Chrisman Commentary. Rob is also an associate of the STRATMOR Group and holds various board seats at mortgage firms and trade associations.

• Having the ability to scale up and down with volumes.
• Costs. Costs. Costs.
• Motivating the sales staff.

We sit with Michael Brennan, Movement Mortgage’s President, to learn how he leads his organization with communications and the goals of developing their organization’s next leadership slate. 

• Defining Clarity, Communications
• Train yourself out of a job, how’s your bench? 
• Lessons learned from John Maxwell

• What is culture?
• Can having a positive culture create a competitive advantage?
• Do you WANT a culture or do you feel like you NEED to create a culture?
• Common reasons your culture may not be felt by the people that matter
• How to create or reset your organization’s culture for success

• How to be a positive leader during a tumultuous market;
• Leading through a recruiting frenzy; and
• Leading a spectrum of producers - from top earners to rookies.  

• Numbers are important and so are people. How to make both work together.
• Understanding how today’s recruiting process requires a new style of leadership.
• Leading a corporate culture in a post-pandemic world. 
• Vision, competition and communication. Three topics to consider as you differentiate your team.

• How we transformed the mortgage process and are closing fully compliant qualified mortgages in 24hrs
• Where were the issues/bottlenecks? Hint: It’s not where you think
• Letting go of the "way things are done" and embracing a new way