7:30 am – 9:00 am: HI Ladies Off-site trip up the Mt. Washington incline

Description: Take a step back in time on a century-old cable car and see the best views of downtown Pittsburgh while riding one of the few remaining inclines in the country. Meet in the lobby of the hotel at 7:30am. It’s free, but please add yourself to the list here so that we can coordinate transport. 

8:00 am – 9:00 am: Registration

9:00 am – 9:02 am: General Session Start

9:02 am – 9:40 am: Keynote: Creating a Hotbed of Innovation 

Description: The pace of innovation continues to hasten. Learn why great firms and great leaders fail to innovate and how you can lead the pack.

Speaker: Meredith Meyer Grelli is an experienced entrepreneur, trailblazer for the spirits industry in PA, and professor of entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon. Meredith is an author, real estate developer, and seed investor with an unsinkable interest in community and economic development. Meredith is a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper School of Business and and an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship at Carnegie Mellon. She founded and leads the Family Business Initiative at Carnegie Mellon, which brings together family business owners and entrepreneurs from an array of industries and geographies.

Speaker: Meredith Grelli

9:40 am – 10:00 am: The Corporate Transparency Act: What you need to know now.

Description: The Corporate Transparency Act took effect in January 2024 and it will likely impact your business. Learn what it is, who needs to file, what needs to be filed and how. 

Speakers: Molly Shoemaker + Will Russell

10:00 am – 10:30 am – iGo Update 

Speakers: Celeste Starchild, John Russell and Mark Wise

10:30 am – 11:00 am – Break

11:00 am – 11:30 am – How to Hire the RIGHT Talent 

Description: Ads, Screening, Interviewing and Onboarding. Q&A on other HR topics from the audience

Speaker: Asha Sciarra-Boardman

11:30 am -12:00 pm: The End of the World as we Know it? 

Description: An industry insider provides the latest updates on the NAR Settlement, and shares his wisdom on the potential impacts to the real estate and inspection industries when it takes effect in July. 

Speaker: Luke Glass, CEO of RealX. Former Executive Vice President of Realtor.com, and former CEO of ListHub.

12:10 pm – 1:30 pm: Lunch

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm: Experience MasterMind

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm: Advanced Management

Description: Learn advanced techniques to managing people, fostering employee empowerment and leadership development, and identifying unscalable processes and barriers to your business.

Speakers: Celeste Starchild and Doug Wolf

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm: Advanced HR Strategies for Success

Description: Learn advanced techniques to Build diversified offers to close applicants, how to implement effective onboarding and getting new employees revenue ready.

Speaker: Asha Sciarra-Boardman

1:30 pm – 3:00 pm: Entrepreneurial Innovation with Keynote Speaker Meredith Grelli

Description: In this hands-on workshop, Keynote speaker Meredith Grelli with work with you to develop new ideas and teach you how to leverage your interests to create more innovation in your business.

Speaker: Meredith Grelli

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm: Break with the Sponsors

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Communicating Technical findings with Clients & Advanced Strategies for Managing Client Expectations 

Description: Harness essential communication techniques for the most effective way to share technical findings with our clients. These techniques, presented by a published author, are used by Fortune 500 companies to grow their brands and maximize their business meetings. This class weaves critical elements of writing and storytelling into a fun two hours of relevant home inspection photos and experiences. Discuss common inspection language errors, explore common home inspector traps, and review techniques for navigating them. See your business from a fresh perspective by exploring an alternative to the fear-based communication traditionally taught in home inspection classes. Grow your business and your reputation as a clear communicator.

Speaker: Dylan Chalk

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Ideal Territory Sizes: Miles vs. Population

Description:  How to set parameters to create ideal territory sizes to generate the best ROI

Speakers: Wade Williamson & Mark Wise

3:30 pm -5:00 pm: How to Break-down Commercial Inspections into Bite-sized Pieces

Description: This breakout session will cover pricing, what to cover in the inspection and how to break-down the project so that you can be efficient and report on it properly.

Speaker: Dave Sherwood

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm: Brand Marketing Workshop

Description: In this hands-on session you will learn how to position your brand and develop brand marketing campaigns to differentiate your business. Back by popular demand, the Brand Marketing Workshop will take a deep dive into your brand marketing program. Unlike other (more common) inspection company marketing campaigns, Brand Marketing is customer-centric and doesn’t focus on promotional discounts or your service offering. You will instead build long-lasting campaigns to keep your company top-of-mind among agents and home buyers. Examples of this would be Nike’s “Just Do It” or Apple’s “Think Different” campaigns. If done right, brand marketing campaigns resonate with your customers, improves name recognition and can allow you to charge higher prices for your services. SIGN UP HERE TO HAVE YOUR COMPANY FEATURED

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm: Experience MasterMind Dinner

9:00 pm – 11: 00 pm: Platinum Lounge in the Three Rivers Foyer