Bill Dedman, Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, to discuss fair housing on GRRA’s Facebook page Bill Dedman is a Pulitzer and Peabody award-winning investigative reporter, bestselling author, and keynote speaker. Mr. Dedman was a Newsday reporter whose reporting revealed that Long Island’s dominant residential real estate brokerages help reinforce racial segregation through illegal steering of customers. Watch the brief video below for a summary of his report. Mr. Dedman will speak on GRRA’s Facebook page at 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 8. Don’t miss it! Here’s the trailer we received from Bill: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90QjUtuunMs Here’s the website for the study he talks about: https://projects.newsday.com/long-island/real-estate-agents-investigation/

Mark Given is Founder of The Trust Based Philosophy, author and co-author of 7 books and speaks and teaches to companies, organizations, associations, colleges, hotels, non-profit and for-profit sales and service groups nationally and internationally.  His 1st book was an Amazon #1 BestSeller in three categories. Mark’s Trust Based Philosophy series, Trust Based Selling, Trust Based Leadership, and Trust Based Success are all Best Sellers.  Mark is recognized worldwide as an authority on leadership, sales, customer service and is best known as a Relationship Expert.

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