Appointed permanent CEO in August 2024, Wright joined NAR from the Chicago Sun-Times in November 2023. She went from leading the noted newspaper through a digital transformation to overseeing the settlement in the antitrust suits and implementing changes (including hiring NAR’s first chief human resources officer) to counter allegations of an internal culture toxicity. The organization seeks to rebuild its reputation as it continues to face Department of Justice scrutiny while working to address changes in compensation rules, the housing affordability crisis and pressure regarding its Clear Cooperation Policy and association spending practices.

Cowen leads the nation’s third largest MLS in Stellar MLS, which serves nearly 84,000 subscribers in Florida and Puerto Rico. With more than four decades of industry experience, Cowen is also a twice past president of the Council of MLS and has been dean of its certification program. In her 16th year at the helm of Stellar, Cowen has helped the MLS expand its sights beyond the U.S. via the MLS’s subsidiary Universal Consulting Opportunities (of which she is also CEO).

As Chief Advocacy Officer at the National Association of Realtors since 2020, McGahn focuses on improving access to homeownership, ensuring fair housing for all and promoting NAR research to inform policymaking. In 2024, she worked with the Veterans Administration to revise its policies regarding direct payment for buyer representation and lobbied around the issue of independent contractor status. Before joining NAR in 2018 as its first woman executive of government affairs, she had a nearly two-decade Capitol Hill career.

Kinney leads the Miami Association of Realtors, the nation’s largest local Realtor association and operator of the U.S.’s fifth largest MLS with nearly 60,000 subscribers. The association has an expansive global real estate council with bilateral agreements with partners in more than 70 countries to provide resources, visibility and connections. In 2024, the association added data-share partnerships with First MLS, MLS Listings and Heartland MLS.

Grant runs Florida Realtors, the nation’s largest state Realtor association, which has over 225,000 members. In 2024, the association grew its international partnerships with real estate associations in Canada and Argentina. Before becoming CEO in 2019, Grant served as chief operating officer and general counsel for the association.

Hall serves as the CEO for Broward, Palm Beaches and St. Lucie Realtors, the nation’s third largest local Realtor association with nearly 38,000 members. In this position, she helps manage five regional boards across south Florida and Treasure Coast. To educate consumers about the changing role of agents in 2024, Hall launched the association’s “Only a Realtor” TV and social media campaign. Meanwhile, she spearheaded the addition of Sidekick’s AI-powered tools to the association’s BeachesMLS, which has 43,000 subscribers.

Jensen leads one of the country’s largest MLSs in Midwest Real Estate Data (MRED), which serves nearly 48,000 members in Illinois and adjoining states. In 2024, the firm joined CoreLogic’s MLS data cooperative, which gives members access to national MLS data-sharing. Jenson also serves as chair of the Real Estate Standards Organization and has chaired the board for data-sharing initiative The MLS Grid for nearly a decade.

Recognized as an innovative association leader, Chenevert manages the Austin Board of Realtors, which has just over 13,000 members. In this role, she coordinates Unlock MLS (formerly ACTRIS), which has more than 18,000 subscribers. She is also on the board of MLS Technology Holdings, LLC, a four-MLS collaboration which owns Remine.

Clement oversees the Chicago Association of Realtors, which is one of the top 10 largest in the U.S. with more than 16,000 members. In 2024, the association was active in educating and advocating against the real estate transfer tax, which was defeated at the polls in Illinois. She is actively involved in advocacy for fair housing and antiracism in the real estate industry. Previously, she served as president and CEO of the Commercial Brokers Association.

In 2024, Myers joined the Canadian Real Estate Association as its CEO. In her first year, she began exploring transitioning CREA’s online portal (realtor.ca) into a for-profit subsidiary (a move the CREA membership supported in an October vote). Prior to taking the leadership role at CREA, Myers led the Ottawa Real Estate Board for a decade and was executive director for a British Columbia real estate board for 12 years prior to that.

DeCatsye has led the approximately 22,500-member Canopy MLS, which serves Realtors in North and South Carolina, since 2001. She also manages the Canopy Realtor Association, the trade organization which owns the MLS, as well as a housing foundation and real estate institute. Having earned her J.D. in 1988, DeCatsye began working with Canopy as its in-house counsel in 2000. She is also a member of the Broker Public Portal’s board of managers.

As chief economist at Bright MLS since 2022, Sturtevant makes sense of the housing market and provides MLS-focused analysis of the key real estate trends. Prior to her work with the nation’s second largest MLS, which has more than 100,000 subscribers, Sturtevant worked for the Virginia Realtors. With a doctorate in public policy and regional economic development, Sturtevant began work in housing analysis in 2013 at the National Housing Conference in Washington, D.C.