Steve Reese has recently affiliated with Prudential Carolyn Harris Realty, Inc. and plans to become active in the residential market working with buyers and sellers.
Reese has worked for the Oklahoma Association of Realtors for the last seven years, first in their newly created communications department. The association was looking to make innovative, across-the-board upgrades to their print and online communications.
Under Reese’s management, the OAR Web site was awarded “Best of the Web” by the National Association of Realtors magazine twice in four years. He transformed the association’s electronic newsletters from a bi-monthly text-only version to a system of several monthly e-newsletters targeted to specific niches in the membership and a four-fold increase in circulation.
After several years at the association, he took the position of director of Professional Development. At that time, their education department consisted of only one program, the Graduate REALTOR Institute (GRI).
He devised a new curriculum incorporating national speakers into its faculty of instructors that nearly tripled its enrollment and doubled its profits, becoming the association’s second highest non-dues revenue source.
The courses were taught live at the Oklahoma City headquarters and broadcast via Internet-based videoconferencing to a classroom in Tulsa. He expanded their designation courses into other specializations with resounding success. He also supervised the development of a multimedia online real estate licensing course.
Reese has worked closely with the Oklahoma Real Estate Commission (OREC) and professional associations for real estate educators, such as the Real Estate Educators Association (REEA). He is also an approved technology instructor through the OREC.
In 2008, he was appointed to a two-year term on the National Association of REALTORS Professional Development Committee.
In addition to that honor, he was selected to participate on a panel of three state association education directors in Washington, D.C., outlining the successes of their GRI program as a model to other associations.
Reese was a Leadership Shawnee graduate in 1994 and is a past president of the Shawnee Board of Realtors, past Realtor of the Year recipient, past OAR District vice president, member, National Association of Realtors Professional Development Committee, 2008-09, and OREC certified continuing education instructor in technology.
Reese and his wife Sharon Reese, who is a teacher at Shawnee High School, live in Shawnee.
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