Speaking & podcasts.
Honest, practical conversations on how mortgage companies and loan officers actually grow in a fragmented-attention, high-trust market. Available for keynotes, panels, workshops, and podcasts.
Upcoming
Make it real: AI adoption from the ground up
Drew joins a panel on how a top-5 retail mortgage lender drove real AI adoption across its loan officer base without a top-down mandate.
- When
- Tuesday, August 11, 2026 · 2:00–2:15 PM CDT
- Where
- George W. Bush Presidential Center, Dallas, TX
- Format
- Panel conversation
- With
- Abdel Khawatmi, Area Manager, Paramount Residential Mortgage Group
- Moderator
- Zeb Lowe, VP of Events & Content, HousingWire
Talk topics
Mortgage Marketing Strategy
How lenders can build marketing systems that support loan officer growth without drowning teams in disconnected tools.
Loan Officer Personal Branding
Why the best LO brands are specific, useful, recognizable, and consistent, not loud, generic, or overproduced.
AI in Mortgage Marketing
Where AI can help loan officers move faster, stay consistent, and scale good ideas, and where human judgment still matters.
Sales and Marketing Alignment
How marketing teams can stop being the department that makes stuff and become true growth partners.
Leadership in High-Pressure Environments
Building teams that own outcomes, communicate clearly, and keep standards high without creating chaos.
The Future of Mortgage Marketing
What mortgage marketing will look like over the next three to five years as AI, digital trust, and local relationships evolve.
Recent appearances
The Mayor of Your Town: Scaling Personal Brands
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with Dino Katsiametis, Founder of Ethos Lending
View episode →Hiring Owners, Direct Feedback & Leading at Scale
How to hire for ownership mentality, give direct feedback without lowering morale, and scale leadership across a large marketing organization without becoming the bottleneck.
with Jason Taylor
View episode →Digital Marketing for Mortgage: What Actually Works
Battle-tested strategies from leading one of the nation's top retail mortgage companies, why most digital marketing for mortgage fails, and what actually drives results.
with Justin Ulrich, VP of Marketing at Evocalize
View episode →Book Drew to speak
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