SpecialGuestPanelist

Monique S. Winston

President and CEO of MWINS Consulting

Monique Winston is a nationally renowned C- Suite Executive and Minority Business Advocate with 27+ years in the Title Insurance a Financial Services industry Mrs Winston has also focused on the inclusion and development of women and minorities as business owners and homeowners

As the current President and CEO of MWINS Consulting, Mrs Winston provides speaking, training, moderating and other services to real estate and financial services organizations Since 2000 she has delivered over 500 messages nationwide, in Canad Mexico and the Virgin Islands In addition to leading MWINS Consulting, Mrs Winston is the Chief Resource and Developmen Officer for the Minority Business Accelerator (MBA) The MBA is a affiliate of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber The mission is accelerate the development of sizable minority business enterprises and strengthen and expand the regional minority entrepreneurial community.

Throughout her career, Monique has worked for several organizations focusing on every facet of the title insurance industry. She served as the Vice-President, National Business Development Executive with WFG National Title Insurance Company, Chief Executive Officer of Optima Lender Services in Cleveland, Ohio and Senior Vice-President/Senior Underwriting Counsel for Stewart Title Guaranty Company in Houston, Texas. Early in her career, Mrs. Winston worked as a Compliance & Resource Officer and Manager at Fidelity's Lender Services, Inc. in Pittsburgh, PA. This position launched her career in the title insurance industry, and over the last 27+ years, she has developed a reputation as a leader in the industry. She has become well-known as a teacher and lecturer and has developed a curriculum of title/closing, homeownership, and diversity and inclusion courses and workshops.

Mrs. Winston is a 1991 graduate of Duquesne University and a 1994 graduate of Duquesne University School of Law. She is a member of the Cleveland Alumnae Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., a public service sorority, initiated at Theta Chapter, Duquesne University and Omicron Delta Kappa, the National Leadership Honor Society. Monique is the Immediate Past President of the Greater Cleveland Realtist Association. Currently, she serves as the President-Elect of the Ohio Realtist Association, a division of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers. (NAREB) Her accomplishments are numerous. Mrs. Winston was featured in both Who's Who in Black Houston and Who's Who in Black Cleveland. In 2012, during the Obama Administration, she received an invitation from the White House Business Council and Business Forward to participate in their business leaders' discussions.

Mrs. Winston was the feature cover story in the July/August 2016 edition of Phenomenal Woman Magazine. She was chosen to represent Cleveland entrepreneurs at the 2018 State of Black America Summit and National Urban League Legislative Policy Conference in Washington, DC. Crain's Cleveland Business also selected her as a 2018 Woman of Note as one of the top female business leaders in Northeast Ohio. In 2021 Mrs. Winston received the Par Excellence Award for her outstanding performance in support of the National Association of Real Estate Brokers.