• Extensive and successful experience selling, managing, training, recruiting, motivating and counseling administrative personnel, sales agents and leaders; accomplished coach, educator, speaker
• Proven administrative, management and leadership experience, including contractual and technical knowledge related to the real estate industry
• Proficient at budgeting, forecasting and increasing profitability
• Accomplished at public speaking, presenting seminars, event planning and fundraising
• Strong administrative, creative, interpersonal, organizational, marketing, and trouble-shooting skills; trustworthy and service-oriented

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Sales • Management • Leadership • Coach • Educator • Speaker • Consultant

• Currently: CEO/President, BIC, Bell Consulting Services
• Mingle School of Real Estate Instructor: Transitional Broker courses, Update and CE courses, ABR, Innovative Marketing, Land Institute 101, Foreclosures, SRES and REPA
• National speaker, coach and consultant
• Recruited/trained/motivated agents in a floundering local office and built it back to a highly successful profitable location within 6 months
• Managed, motivated and recruited 60-70 residential real estate agents for national realtor's prestigious Marin County office; successfully reduced overhead expenses by over 40% in first 6 months; coach to team of 13 managers and to 450 sales agents at large San Francisco real estate firm
• Oversaw operations of 13 real estate offices in Marin and Sonoma Counties having 13 office managers and 450 agents; responsible for relocation, agents, managers, and company events; coach to owner and branch managers
• Supervised and scheduled nurses as Head Nurse for various hospital departments
• Enhanced total patient care concept by creating and performing the responsibilities of Discharge Coordinator

Sales, Training & Marketing

• Consistently top real estate SALES AGENT, successfully representing over 1000 satisfied families
• Created and taught “How to Become a Professional Real Estate Assistant”, “Business Plans for the 90’s”, “How to Become a Professional Transaction Coordinator” and a new agent training program “READY*SET*GO”
• Authored training manual and created training department for 350 sales agent company
• Oversaw marketing, advertising and training for company of 450 sales force having 13 office locations
• Successfully trained sales agents for various Bay area realtors in personal and technical aspects of sales; oversaw marketing, and all related programs for major North Bay realtor; analyzed market share and sales related statistics in relation to creation of advertisement campaigns

WORK HISTORY

• Bell Consulting Services: CEO/President (Bell Seminars, Bell Educational Services and Bell Consulting)
• Mingle School of Real Estate: Instructor, 2001-present
• RE/MAX Executive Realty and Metro Realty: Sales, Recruiting, Training, 2000-2002
• Coldwell Banker Flouhouse Realtors: Sales/Training/Sales Management, Charlotte, NC, 1997-1999
• Allen Tate Co.: Sales 1996/1997
• Prudential Carolinas Realty, Dickens Mitchner Realty: Training, Management, Coach, Charlotte, NC 1994-1996
• REMAX North Bay and REMAX Marin County: Coach/ Sales Management, San Rafael, CA, 1992-1994
• Grubb & Ellis Realty: Senior Vice President of Sales, Greenbrae, CA, 1990-1992
• Frank Howard Allen Realty: Sales Agent/Director of Training/Senior Vice President/General Sales Manager, Chief Operating Officer, Novato, CA, 1984-1991
• Coldwell Banker California: Sales Management, Trainer, San Rafael, CA 1981-1984
• Red Carpet Realty: Sales Agent/Assistant Manager, Belmont, CA, 1977-1981
• Brookview Hospital: Director of Nursing Services, San Pablo, CA
• Kaiser Hospital: Staff nurse, Head Nurse Intensive Care Unit & Delivery Room, Hayward, Redwood City, CA

EDUCATION & TRAINING

• Samuel Merritt College of Nursing, Oakland, CA (BSN) 1961-1965
• University of California, Berkeley, CA (Business) 1976
• Mills College, Oakland, CA (Public Health Nursing) 1966
• College of San Mateo, CA (Business Administration and Real Estate Courses) 1974-1976
• Licensed Real Estate Broker, California and North Carolina
• Graduate and instructor for Zig Zigler’s “Train the Trainer” Program
• Designations: GRI, ABR, SRES…Certified Instructor for ABR, Innovative Marketing, Land Institute 101, SRES and REPA Designations