Professionals in the Professional Education Business
Your Education Media Partners
America's Appraisal Industry Conference Leader
We take pride in our unrivaled expertise in curating exceptional conferences that bring together the brightest minds and industry leaders in the appraisal field. With our unwavering commitment to education, innovation, and community we have solidified our position as the leading conference organizer in the United States.
Provider of Online Professional Continuing Education
At StoryboardEMP, we understand the importance of continuous learning and professional development in today's rapidly evolving landscape. That's why we have established ourselves as a trusted source for top-quality online ceducation that empower professionals to expand their knowledge, enhance their skills, and stay ahead of the competition.
Appraiser eLearning
Appraiser eLearning produces useful, entertaining, and engaging continuing education, designed specifically to make this process more enjoyable. Our continuing education classes are created with working appraisers in mind, the appraiser who’s out there measuring houses, talking to clients, researching sales, and appraising real estate on a day-to-day basis.
Agent eLearning
Agent eLearning brings together the real estate industries top instructors to produce high-quality online educational content aimed at keeping today's agents ahead of the curve.
PI Education
For the past 20 years, PI Education has offered useful, engaging, and high-quality courses to private investigators and process servers all over the U.S. Our instructors are some of the best in the industry — veteran, boots-on-the-ground private investigators and process servers who are experts in specialties from OSINT to surveillance.
Team
Meet the StoryboardEMP team.
Jim McLeod
CEO
Jim McLeod is president of InfoCode Corp, a geo database integration company. While overseeing the day-to-day operations, he participates with startup and operations of other technology ventures…all the while, managing a family of 6 children.
Hal Humphreys
COO
Hal Humphreys is a lifelong learner and educator. He is a practicing Certified Fraud Examiner and professional investigator. Hal is a CDEI certified instructor through IDECC. He writes, lectures, and he walks ... a lot.
Bryan Reynolds
Partner and Lead Instructor
Bryan S. Reynolds directs Appraiser eLearning. Bryan is a practicing appraiser and a classroom instructor. Mr. Reynolds is a CDEI certified instructor through IDECC. He likes to run and practice martial arts, when he can find the time.
Kim Green
Editor
Kim Green writes and edits articles, produces podcasts and videos, and collaborates on courses for PI Education, Appraiser eLearning, and Agent eLearning. She’s also a licensed pilot, flight instructor, radio journalist, and writer.
Ben Maxwell
Director - Education Programs, Marketing & Operations
Ben Maxwell, Chief Compliance Officer, StoryboardEMP Ben runs our Agent eLearning and Appraiser eLearning divisions. He collaborates with authors and experts to create excellent multimedia courses, shepherds our CE through the labyrinth of state compliance, and serves as unflappable Zoom diplomat for our live- virtual clients. In his free time, Ben loves sports and adventuring outdoors. Although he still runs a crazy 50k race every year called the “Upchuck,” he gave up mountain biking after eating dirt too many times; he now prefers slower-paced outdoor sports, like hiking with his wife and two daughters.
Stephanie Mitchell
Director - PI Education
Stephanie Mitchell directs PI Education and she is the advertising director for PursuitMag.com. She has 17 years of combined experience as a private investigator and paralegal. During her leisure time, she is devoted to her dog Marley, plays soccer, enjoys the outdoors and photography, and spends time with her family and friends.
Doug Hayes
Business Systems Administrator
Storyboard’s resident jack-of-all-trades, Doug handles everything from IT operations to customer support. He has been a crucial member of Jim McLeod's entrepreneurial adventures since 2007, starting as a GIS specialist that evolved into the role of Storyboard’s Business Systems Administrator. When he's not busy keeping the gears of business turning, he’s by his wife’s side navigating two awesome kids through childhood. You can find him on weekends as the head coach of his kids’ baseball and soccer teams - complete with Storyboard’s logo waving proudly on their uniforms.
Navi Johnson
Social Media Manager
Navi is the Social Media Manager for Storyboard EMP. She studied Magazine, Newspaper and Online Journalism at Syracuse University and started her career in the world of social media in 2018. When she’s not creating cool content, she’s being creative everywhere else! She loves music, farmer’s markets and being a mom to a tiny tyrant named Sire. When she’s not running behind her toddler, she’s trying new recipes, drinking wine, organizing RVA’s Black Farmer’s Market, and in her notebook writing rhymes, songs, and screenplays. Sometimes she waters Serena, her snake plant.
Jim Morrison
VP of Marketing and Partnerships
Jim Morrison is the person you need to call when you have some news you want the whole industry to hear about. With over a decade of experience in the real estate appraisal industry Jim is a “rockstar” at marketing and creating the connections that you need to get the word out. Jim loves the sun and sand and his wife, two daughters, and a spoiled rotten boxer live near the ocean year round. Hitting the beach is one of their favorite things to do.
Diana Terrell
Office Manager and Student Support Specialist
Diana Terrell wrangles state CE approvals and stays patient and kind when customers call. She taught elementary and middle schoolers for 20 years...and survived. When Diana was 18, she eloped with her high school sweetheart, Mike—their families didn't approve. Everyone approves now, after 33 years. She loves riding motorcycles with Mike and hiking with her identical twin, Dana. Diana and Mike have a daughter & son. Diana brings her organizational skills and diplomatic temperament to the game..
Aaliyah Terrell
Marketing and Media Director
Aaliyah is a young professional, self-published author, and content creator with a love for that space where art and business meet. Marketing is both her area of expertise and her passion. As marketing manager at Storyboard, she gets to have her hands in a wide range of creative endeavors. And when she's not at work, she enjoys traveling the world, writing, and reading books on anything and everything.
Karen Connolly
VP of Operations
Karen is in charge of food and fun through meeting planning. She also provides management support for Appraisal Buzz and the Collateral Risk Network (CRN). Karen is a fine art sculptor working with metal and fused glass. She’s finishing her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from the University of Cincinnati.
