About Expert Partners


International Association of Expert Partners, founded in 2020 by Don Hobbs and Allison Gaddy is dedicated to empowering real estate agents through their increasingly popular Expand Mastermind which helps team leaders, brokers and budding agent leaders to create more time and money freedom through identifying, nurturing, building and retaining talent.  Their focus is to elevate agents from the mindset of a transactionally based sales role to the status of true business owner.  They are successfully accomplishing this by creating and training other influential industry leaders.  

Building a successful real estate career since the late 90’s, Allison is an Austin, Texas real estate success story, Allison is using her immense influence to build a large real estate company, brokered by eXp, which spans over 28 states and opened in the UK last fall. At her previous Austin brokerage, she met and partnered with industry influencer, Don Hobbs. Allison was most recently featured in Business Insider / Markets Insider as one of the Top 10 Agents to Watch in 2021, selected based on her innovative approach and great reputation across many platforms.  She was also honored to be featured by FORBES Magazine among a few of today’s top investors as she shared her best advice on how to prepare investment portfolios for the next decade - with all of its expected trends and its propensity for ups and downs.  And, most recently, she was named in the Top 20 Austin Real Estate Agents on Social Media in a feature naming the best of the best when it comes to social media for real estate in Austin.

Don Hobbs began his career with Motivational Mega-Star, Jim Rohn, where Don ultimately became President of Jim’s International operation. Then, as co-founder of Hobbs Herder Advertising, the pioneer in Realtor® branding (a massive industry disruptor), Don was named to Realtor Magazine’s “Top 25 Most Influential People in Real Estate.” Through more than 3 decades, Don Hobbs has positively influenced over one MILLION Realtors. In January 2021,  eXp World Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPI), the parent company of eXp Realty and Virbela, announced the acquisition of SUCCESS Enterprises and its related media properties, including SUCCESS print magazine, SUCCESS.com, SUCCESS newsletters, podcasts, digital training courses and affiliated social media accounts across platforms. SUCCESS also welcomed Don who joined the team as President of SUCCESS Enterprises and leads strategy and brand expansion.

Expert Partners was founded to combine Don and Allison’s more than 5 decades of combined industry experience to train team leaders, brokers and budding agent leaders to create more time and money freedom through identifying, nurturing, building and retaining talent.  Allison and Don’s Expert Partners is part of the strong and growing eXp Realty “Movement” that is revolutionizing the real estate industry.