Conference registration is SOLD OUT for 2025! If you have any questions, please email Jessica.
We are excited to welcome you to our 2025 Habitat Florida Affiliate Conference! This year’s theme is Building Tomorrow, Together. As a network, we are embracing change, overcoming challenges, and finding innovative ways to serve our communities. Across Florida, the affordable housing crisis has required our affiliates to continually adapt. Yet, in the face of these challenges, the spirit of Habitat remains strong. Affiliates across the state are scaling up, building more, and serving more families than ever before. Together, we are forging a future where safe, affordable housing is within reach for all.
We have lined up an incredible slate of speakers and sponsors to share their wealth of knowledge with our affiliate network! Thank you for your participation! If you are looking to book your rooms for the conference, you can do so here. The hotel will discount the taxes with a copy of your tax-exempt certificate. This conference, from April 28-30, 2025 at The Shores Resort and Spa is exclusively for Florida affiliate employees and volunteers.
Join us for the Executive Forum! This portion of the conference is for both ASO Board Members and the highest leadership position at each affiliate (CEO or ED) and 2 Board members.
This forum schedule will be as follows:
8:00 am - Breakfast buffet 8:15 am - Opening and devotional 9:00 am - Round Robin introductions, a chance to introduce yourself and your involvment with Habitat 10:30 am - Break 10:45 am - Economic Outlook, Jackie Benson, Vice President, Economist, Wells Fargo. Jackie Benson is a vice president and economist with Wells Fargo’s Corporate and Investment Bank. Based in Charlotte, N.C., she covers the U.S. macroeconomy, including residential housing, commercial real estate, construction and regional economies. She regularly writes economic indicator reports and contributes to the group’s Weekly Economic & Financial Commentary. Prior to joining Wells Fargo in 2022, Jackie served as a senior economist at the U.S. Senate Joint Economic Committee. Before that, she was a policy director at the American Action Forum, a policy research organization in Washington, D.C. Jackie holds an M.S. in applied economics from Johns Hopkins University. Previously, she earned a B.S. in economics and a B.A. in political science from the University of Florida. 11:15 am - HFHI US Office Update, Carmen Smith, Vice President of US Affiliate Services 11:30 am - Resilient Leadership, Cotrenia Hood, Steel Bleu CEO and Habitat Florida Board Member 12:15 pm - Speed networking session 1:00 pm - Boxed Lunch 1:00 - 2:45 - Optional Networking OR Attend the Meet Your Cohort sessions
