Executive Roundtable

L1 Executive Roundtable

Tuesday, July 21 to Wednesday, July 22, 2026
The Mining Exchange Hotel & Spa, Colorado Spring, CO

Event Agenda

DAY ONE: Tuesday, July 21, 2026

  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch in the Elkton Terrace
  • 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM: MBA’s Mortgage Market Outlook: Led by Marina B. Walsh, CMB, Vice President, Head of Industry Analysis, Research and Economics Department, Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA)
  • 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM: Break
  • 3:15 PM – 5:00 PM: Open Discussion Continues
  • 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM: Evening Dinner

DAY TWO: Wednesday, July 22, 2026

  • 8:00 AM – 8:30 AM: Breakfast in the Elkton Terrance
  • 8:30 AM – 8:45 AM: Opening Remarks – Rick Seehausen, President of Lenders One
  • 8:45 AM – 9:00 AM: Rules of Engagement: How Leaders Drive Change – Facilitated by Steve Scanlon, President, Rewire, Inc.
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM: Session: Integration of Leadership Principles in Today’s Market
  • 10: 00 AM – 10:15 AM: Break
  • 10:15 AM – 11:00 AM: Breakout Session 1: Applying the Work to the Rise of the Machines
  • 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM: Breakout Session 2: Applying the Work to Economics & Efficiencies
  • 11:45 AM – 12:00 PM: Group Discussion, Assignments, & Closing
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM: Lunch in the Elkton Terrace
  • 1:00 PM: Meeting Concludes

Speakers

Marina Walsh, CMB
Vice President, Head of Industry Analysis, Research and Economics Department, Mortgage Bankers Association

Marina Walsh, CMB, is Vice President, Head of Industry Analysis in MBA’s Research and Economics Department, specializing in industry financial and operational performance benchmarking for residential lenders and servicers. She leads the management and direction for the Mortgage Bankers Performance Reports, the Peer Group Survey and Roundtable Program, the Servicing Operations Study and Forum, the Warehouse Lender Study, the Home Equity Lending Study and other studies that measure lender performance. She is MBA’s spokesperson for all servicing-related studies including the National Delinquency Survey and the Loan Monitoring Survey and regularly speaks at industry conferences throughout the U.S.

Steve Scanlon
Founder & CEO, Rewire, Inc.

Steve Scanlon is the founder and CEO of Rewire, a coaching and development company that helps companies, teams and individuals better understand how to make effective changes for radical improvement in their businesses and in their personal lives. He owned and operated three companies by the time he was 30 and has since dedicated over 30,000 hours to one-on-one coaching with business executives and other top performers, and has presented hundreds of workshops and keynote sessions to tens of thousands of people across the country. He is certified by the ICF, has a certification in interpersonal neurobiology from the Mindsight Institute, and was a senior fellow at the Institute of Coaching, which is endowed by the Harvard Medical School.

Sponsors

Thank you to the following L1 Preferred Providers for their generous support of this event.

Day 1 Speaker

On a mission to create trust with every financial transaction, Truework provides a one-stop, customizable platform for income and employment verification that is more efficient, accurate, and secure.

Tuesday Lunch

Cinch Home Services helps customers cover the cost of repairs when appliances and essential home systems including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and more break down from everyday use.

Tuesday Dinner

Ocrolus is an AI-powered data and analytics platform that enables faster and more accurate financial decision-making.

Wednesday Breakfast

ActiveComply helps mortgage lenders monitor social media, websites, traditional marketing, and branch inspections to ensure regulatory compliance and protect brand reputation.

Wednesday Lunch

Connexions is a SaaS appraisal management system used by lenders to manage their appraisal order assignment, quality control, communication, reporting and
compliance.

General Sponsor

Optimal Blue bridges the primary and secondary mortgage markets to deliver the industry’s only end-to-end capital markets platform, helping lenders maximize profitability and operate efficiently so they can help American borrowers achieve the dream of homeownership.