
Management Consultant - Real Estate, Entrepreneurship, & Community Economic Development Strategies
Greater Detroit Area

Management Consultant - Real Estate, Entrepreneurship, & Community Economic Development Strategies
Greater Detroit Area
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
2002 — Present (7 years )
Detroit-metro Real Estate & Entrepreneur Matrix [DREEM] has joined with The HOMEOffice Center on Wayne State University's campus in Detroit to provide cost-efficient community economic development training, primarily centered on building wealth through real estate and business ownership.
A wide range of topics cover: start-ups, acquisitions, investments, financing, management, disposition, accounting, taxation, residential, commercial, retail, e-commerce, and much more... The center provides training and services to individuals, families, established businesses, nonprofits, and governmental entities.
Additionally, since early 2005, Reggie has worked with the Michigan Institute of Real Estate to provide Michigan State required pre-licensing instruction and training for real estate the salesperson and broker examinations. Topics of instruction covers related laws, civil rights, fair housing, contract law, regulations, business procedures, financing, ethics. professional conduct, and other such topics.
(Management Consulting industry)
November 1999 — Present (10 years 1 month)
Using his organizational and management expertise in business, government, political, and nonprofit sectors, Reggie specializes in stakeholder relations during community and urban change by providing creative ideas and strategic solutions. Reggie is often sought out for public speaking to share his thoughts and visions.
As people consistently recognize Reggie's sincere desire to help others and a strong interest toward political engagement, they often ask him to seek public elected office. Reggie has entertained their requests on a couple occassions during the past twelve years.
(Non-Profit; Government Relations industry)
February 1998 — November 2007 (9 years 10 months)
Reggie was the founder and CEO of Community/Urban Transition (C/UT), a Michigan nonprofit-chartered community and micro-economic development agency that promoted individual, family, and community prosperity through education, information, and engagement. C/UT sponsored and co-sponsored several programs, inclusive of the All-City Community Dialogue, an affiliate of the Public Conversations Project (Watertown, MA) exChange program; and C/UT's AROMA-Detroit cleanup and beautification project. (AROMA is an acronym for All Realty Owners and Managers Alliance.)
(Government Administration industry)
September 1996 — November 1999 (3 years 3 months)
With this larger public housing agency, Reggie helped facilitate organizational improvements sufficient to remove the agency from the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development's troubled agency list. He also provided oversight and management of a $130 million re-development plan, that included infrastructure and new/rehab building construction for an entire community, as well as supportive programs for the community's residents.
Bachelor's of Science - Business Adm/Finance & Master of Business Admin.(MBA) - taxation/accounting , Business Admin. & Economic Development , 1992 — 1994
Community & economic development, real estate development and management, stakeholder, nonprofit, political, and government relations, community advocacy, campaign management, adult education and training, public speaking, networking, horseback riding, traveling, karate, others...
Association of REALTORS, Community/Urban Transition, Community & Economic Development Association of Michigan, Urban Land Institute, Habitat for Humanity, Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity,