Since 1994, Deborah has traveled around the United States, sharing her research, expertise and provocative insights with real estate professionals, home inspectors, interior designers, architects, state regulators, accountants, appraisers, surveyors, engineers and corporate executives.  The Wall Street Journal, the Chicago Tribune, and national radio programs have lauded her work with licensed professionals.  Her new course on working with volunteers was recently a keynote program for the American Society of Home Inspectors.

A career educator and international speaker, Deborah has been certified as an ethics trainer by the Josephson Institute of Ethics. A former Distinguished Lecturer on Ethics for the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Deborah was recognized as North Carolina's Real Estate Educator of the Year by the NC Real Estate Educators Association. Her ethics courses have achieved national recognition. 

Debbie's experiences travelling to Europe in search of her ancestral roots recently appeared on National Public Radio's "The Story."  You can listen to the program: The Story

Deborah is the editor of the REEA Journal, read by over 1,400 real estate instructors, regulators, and school owners around the U.S. and Canada. She is the author of more than 20 real estate textbooks, including Doing the Right Thing: A Real Estate Practitioner's Guide to Ethical Decision Making, which is in its 4th edition. Deborah also teaches pre- and post-licensing courses for the Fonville Morisey Center for Real Estate Studies in Raleigh and Durham.

In addition to workshops on ethics, Deborah's programs on international real estate, E-Commerce, Internet research techniques, investment fundamentals, and creative strategies for a slow real estate market and other continuing education seminars and instructor development programs are powerful and engaging.