Mark Leader, North America's No.1 real estate sales speaker/trainer and founder of Mark Leader Courses, is pleased to announce that Marcie Roggow has joined Leader's Choice as its National Training Director.

Developed and led by Mark Leader, Leader's Choice is a 45-hour, nine-week classroom course that has been proven to quickly increase production, dramatically improve self-esteem and foster work/life balance for real estate agents across North America.

Roggow, ABR/M, CCIM, CRB, CRS, DREI, GRI, SRS, and licensed since 1971, has worked in all facets of the real estate profession — broker-owner, developer and educator. She concentrates her efforts on disclosure and legal topics, but her main body of work is in real estate professionalism.

As Leader's Choice National Training Director, Roggow will be responsible for recruiting and managing a world-class team of real estate professional trainers. The most important motto Roggow instills is to get back to the basics, and Leader's Choice trainers will be an essential part of that process. While the nine-week program is the core element of Leader's Choice, Roggow is creating a full-service speakers bureau that will offer clients talented real estate trainers covering a myriad of topics in order to complete a company's training needs.

"My affiliation with Mark Leader and Leader's Choice is a natural progression for me," Roggow said. "I have been a trainer and author of courses for more than 20 years. My relationship with nearly every component of the real estate industry has provided me with the opportunity to meet and work with the best trainers in the business. Forming this new cadre of trainers to improve the performance of real estate professionals and, therefore, the service to the consumers is truly a pleasure. Leader's Choice will be a new comprehensive real estate training company."

"Marcie is a highly-intelligent, hard-working and dedicated individual," Leader said. "She has exceptional credentials and a resume full of experience in everything from broker-owner to educator and everything in between. I am delighted to have her join Leader's Choice. She will be an asset in a myriad of ways and help bring even more success to the Leader's Choice program."

A Charter Certified Residential Specialist (CRS), Roggow has served as the Iowa and Dakotas state chapter president and received the CRS of the Year Award for both states. She was one of the originators of the Regional Vice Presidents for the Council, for which she is very proud to have served six years as one of the first regional representatives. She was also president of the Iowa City Board of REALTORS®, one of the first national trainers for the ABR designation and responsible for many of the rewrites of that coursework.

Roggow is a senior trainer for the Sellers Representative Specialist Designation, along with an author and trainer of two CRS elective programs and the CRB elective, "What's in Your Policy Manual?" Roggow's emphasis is on professionalism, law, risk management issues and brokerage management. Her recently published "Internet and Social Media Policy and Procedures Manual," which was co-authored with Frances Flynn Thorsen, was penned as a road map for brokerage companies dealing with Web 2.0. To that end, Roggow has worked closely with REALTOR organizations and Real Estate Commissions alike to draft legislation that can be understood not only by the consumer, but also by the licensee.

For more information on the Leader's Choice program, visit www.leaderschoice.com.