A keynote they'll quote all conference — and use all year
Darryl brings the big-picture perspective that gets an audience thinking differently—and the practical takeaways that help them do something with it. His keynotes are energetic, relevant, and built to create impact long after the event ends.
Keynotes and workshops.
A main-stage keynote and a hands-on training day are different animals. Tell us which you need and we will build from there. Every session is customized in title, content, and length.
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The big-stage talks. Main-platform sessions for conferences, conventions, and installations, built to move a full room.
How to Become a POWER AGENT® in Real Estate™
Darryl's flagship, from his bestselling McGraw-Hill book. A fast, high-energy blend of mindset and hands-on sales skill, built to send agents home with the handful of changes that lift production over the next year. Heavy on participation and laugh-out-loud humor.
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How to Design a Career Worth Smiling About™
The keynote that travels beyond real estate. A humor-filled, science-backed session on moving through stress to focus, purpose, and joy while still producing at a high level. Leaves a room lighter, clearer, and re-energized.
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The Value of a REALTOR®
Why buyers and sellers need a professional now more than ever. Darryl gives agents the language to shed the “salesperson” label, prove their value with facts, and lead listing and buyer conversations that earn more signatures. Serving, not selling.
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Skill-building sessions for education days and member events, built to send agents home with dialogues they can use the same week.
How to Become a Listing Machine in the Next 90 Days
FSBOs and Expireds are the lead sources most agents fear, and they are Darryl's specialty. Agents leave with the voicemail dialogue that gets half of FSBOs to call back, the sections of a strong listing appointment, and how to list three out of five.
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How to Create Buyer Loyalty and Double Your Income in 90 Days
With buyer agency changing fast, agents need to communicate value clearly. Covers signed agency agreements agents feel good about, the buyer lead sources top producers rely on, and how to hold a client even when they tour a home without you.
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How to Generate a Surge of Listings from One Open House
How to turn a single open house into a wave of new listings, including hosting one with no listings of your own, making it stand out without spending a fortune, and separating the serious buyers and sellers from the browsers.
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Sessions for executives and broker-owners on member value, recruiting, retention, and leading agents through a shifting market.
How to Recruit and Retain Your Members
An urgent call to action for state and local associations. As MLS access stops carrying the retention argument, Darryl gives executives the language, the data, and a 90-day plan to defend the dues base and rebuild the case for being a REALTOR®.
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How to Keep Your Agents Focused and Productive™
Built for broker-owners and managers. Specific strategies, not theories, to get agents out of their own way, renew their enthusiasm, and lift production, plus how an office worth working in becomes a genuine recruiting tool.
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective REALTORS®
Covey's principles, real estate style. A session on navigating change with more balance and less stress, from honest client conversations to building listing appointments even in a tight market. Scales from a keynote to a working session.
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What his peers and partners say.
Darryl Davis, CSP
Darryl Davis has spent more than forty years in real estate. He is a Certified Speaking Professional, a bestselling author with McGraw-Hill Publishers, the creator of the term Next Level®, and the founder of the POWER Program®, a coaching process with a track record of doubling agents' incomes over the prior year.
What brings him to most stages now is what he writes about. Darryl is a columnist for Inman and HousingWire, where he covers private listings, Clear Cooperation, off-MLS inventory, portal consolidation, and the future of the MLS. Associations and boards bring him in specifically to interpret those shifts for a membership that is tired of hearing everything is fine. He takes positions, he defends them, and he does not soften the parts that are uncomfortable.
He also created and hosts Real Estate Unscripted, the podcast where the executives, brokers, and association leaders shaping this industry sit down and say what they actually think about where it is headed. It is the same instinct that makes his keynotes work. Ask the real question, then stay in the room for the answer.
None of it is theoretical. Darryl came up through the business: licensed at 19, then top producer, then owner of an office that became the number one office in its market within six months. He speaks to agents as someone who has done the job, and to leadership as someone who still talks to thousands of their members every year. That he happens to be very funny is what keeps a room with him for ninety minutes.
- Inman AI Award, 2024Most Innovative Use of AI, Digital Darryl™
- Certified Speaking ProfessionalHeld by under 2% of speakers worldwide
- Bestselling AuthorMcGraw-Hill Publishers
- Creator & HostReal Estate Unscripted podcast
- Contributing EditorHousingWire, and columnist for Inman
- RISMedia Influencer AwardReal estate industry honoree
- Who's Who WorldwideListed member
Featured in Inman · HousingWire · RISMedia · Realty Times
Member: National Speakers Association · Women's Council of REALTORS® · Leading RE
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You are the one who has to stand behind this choice. Here is what you can count on between the handshake and the standing ovation.
Your event, not a template
Darryl builds every session around your theme, your audience, and the outcome you are measured on. The talk your attendees hear is written for your room, not pulled off a shelf.
He fills the room and holds it
Forty years on stage and a comedian's timing mean people come, stay, and are still talking about it at the bar afterward. Your session will not be the one with empty chairs at the back.
Almost no lift on your side
Darryl travels with his own materials, handles his own tech and A/V needs, and arrives prepared. You get a partner who makes your job easier, not one more vendor to manage.
Planners rebook him
Sessions rate 4.8 out of 5.0 and rank in the top 10% at the REALTORS® Conference & Expo. The clearest proof is how many associations bring him back the next year.
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