Leading & Building the #1 RE/MAX team in the world, with focus on helping shape what comes next.

Debra Beagle, CRS has spent more than two decades building businesses, developing leaders and advocating for a stronger real estate profession. Today, she is Co-Owner, CEO and Managing Broker of The Ashton Real Estate Group of RE/MAX Advantage, home to the #1 RE/MAX team in the world and the official real estate team of the NHL’s Nashville Predators. She leads 225 agents and a staff of 35 and has helped guide more than 18,000 transactions representing over $8 billion in sales, while remaining a multi-million-dollar producer throughout her career.

Her leadership now extends far beyond her own brokerage. In 2027, Debra will serve as National President of the Residential Real Estate Council, representing the CRS community, and as the National Association of REALTORS® Liaison for Member Engagement. Across both roles, her focus is forward: strengthening the profession, elevating the value of the REALTOR®, developing the next generation of leaders, and ensuring members have a meaningful voice in the future of the industry.

Debra is known for turning vision into systems that work. She has built mentoring, lead-conversion and agent-development programs designed not simply to help agents close more transactions, but to build sustainable careers. Her approach combines high standards, accountability and operational discipline with a deeply personal belief that leadership is ultimately about helping people become more capable and confident.

Long before real estate, Debra trained as a chemist at George Washington University in Washington, DC and worked as an environmental consultant conducting due diligence on commercial transactions. That analytical foundation never disappeared. Today, the same instinct to study the evidence, understand the problem and build a solution informs how she leads organizations, approaches advocacy and navigates change.

Bilingual and the daughter of a Cuban immigrant, Debra also co-founded the Nashville chapter of NAHREP and has spent years advocating for homeownership, property rights and greater opportunity. Affordable housing was one of her earliest passions in real estate and remains part of a larger mission that continues to guide her work: leave the profession stronger, create opportunity for others, keep building what comes next and Elevating Together.