Managing brokers are many things to many people, but one thing is consistent – no matter what they are doing, their importance is difficult to overstate.

From coaching, to mentoring, to spiritual inspiration, they serve any number of needs for the agents in their offices. They are business leaders, coaches and psychologists all rolled into one, the nuclei of all high-performing real estate businesses.

To find out how managing brokers simultaneously wear all those disparate hats, we chatted with three of the very best, and asked them not only how they run their businesses, but how they stay relevant to their agents’ needs in what is an ever-changing, ever-shifting industry. Click through to the next page to find out what we learned.