06/11/2026
If you were lucky enough back in the day to get one of these handwritten Post-it notes stuck to your signed commission cheque, you’ll feel this photo… you were proud of us all, no matter how much we worked, trained, earned and evolved…. You were always proud of us!!! As you would always say “Education without Ex*****on is merely Entertainment” - the education and knowledge that you blessed us all with is why we are where we are today….I’ve always kept a few of these Post-it notes on my desk as motivation……
June 1st—my birthday—we spoke. We laughed. You asked about me and my family, like you always did. You couldn’t believe that when we first met, I had a newborn in my arms, and now this Friday he’s graduating and heading off to high school.
We chatted about how proud you were watching your amazing daughter graduate from university a few weeks earlier. You felt so special as if the ceremony was for you and her….Blink!
I was probably one of your last annual birthday calls. We all got one and all looked forward to it every year, no matter where you were in the world or how busy you were. That’s just who you were. You made the time and made people feel important.
You blessed so many of us with your knowledge, humor, and the perfect example of how to treat people. We were lucky to have the funniest, smartest-stats-guy, non-judgmental mentor, friend, boss, and leader anyone could ask for. You could calm any stressful situation, usually with a joke that had no business being that funny.
You were truly one of a kind—a diamond in the rough.
Rest easy and fly high, Conrad. I have a feeling you’ve already got the angels organized, laughing, swearing and tracking their numbers.
