A Division of Negotiation Expertise, LLC
About Us

Hagerty, Alec

Alec HagertyA practicing Ohio Real Estate broker with over 34 years of experience, Alec Hagerty now spends over 90% of his time delivering high energy training, CE, and various designation programs to realtors and businesses nationally through his company, Knowledge Sponge Seminars, LLC.

Alec has been his board’s Realtor of the Year, Broker of the Year, and served as president twice. In 1997, he was voted Ohio’s Instructor of the Year and, in 1999, was proud to receive the Distinguished Real Estate Instructor designation from the National Real Estate Educators Association.  Alec is currently one of only 102 people in the world to hold that designation!

Alec has earned the ABR, ABR-M, CNE, CRB, C-CREC, e-Pro,  GHS, SHS, and SRES designations and certifications.

Alec’s personal passion is to help realtors achieve a higher level of professionalism by providing the best in relevant, meaningful, and fun education.

Alec believes the saying, “Success is the reward for doing your BEST!”

Certified Negotiation Expert
One of the top designation courses in real estate taught nationally by the Real Estate Negotiation Institute. This 2-day course offers professional negotiation and business building training.

Certified Negotiation Expert

Certified Short Sale Negotiator
This new popular 1-day course focuses on the short sale process and the different negotiations necessary to successfully close a short sale in the volatile housing market of today.

Certified Short Sale Negotiator

Master Certified Negotiation Expert
The newest designation will bring your negotiation skills to the highest professional level in real estate with over 5 days of thorough training in all aspects of negotiation.

Master Certified Negotiation Expert