Description

Bias Override: Overcoming Barriers to Fair Housing is an NAR certificate course that helps real estate professionals interrupt stereotypical thinking so they can avoid fair housing pitfalls and provide equal professional service to every customer or client. Participants will learn about the mind science of identity, study how implicit bias can result in fair housing violations and engage in interactive exercises to enhance communication skills and business relationships with clients of all backgrounds.

Bias Override teaches REALTORS® how to:

• Understand the history of bias and discrimination in real estate.
• Explain how implicit bias may result in violations of Fair Housing laws and industry ethics.
• Identify interventions to prevent implicit bias, identity anxiety, and stereotype threat from influencing behavior.
• Increase personal motivation to confront these phenomena in their business and community

Instructor: Isabelle Perkins

Isabelle Perkins real estate career started after having worked in a corporate environment as part of site acquisition/ development, and multiple personal moves across the country and internationally.

Over the past 25+ years, Isabelle has been involved in the real estate industry as a professional in a variety of functions, from salesperson, to broker owner to instructor and course writer.  Today, education is her full time activity, online and offline, leveraging her personal and professional experience, striving to bring relevant and researched material to participants in a “non-boring” way, making the complex simple and the dry/ mandatory topics interesting and fun.

Licensed as a Broker in MA and a broker-salesperson in NJ

Licensed/ Approved as a real estate instructor in MA, NH, NJ and NY

Designations: MCNE, GRI, ABR, SRS, SRES

Certifications: SFR, BPOR, AHWD, MRP, RENE

Member of REEA and Graduate of the ITI Institute

CDEI Certified