Why Your Top Agent Quit Without a Backup Plan
Why Your Top Agent Quit Without a Backup Plan
Last month, a top-producing agent I coach walked away from her brokerage.
No other brokerage lined up.
No “safety” deal in the works.
Just turned in the keys and left.
Not because she couldn’t close deals.
She was #2 in production for the year.
Her name was on the leaderboard every month.
She left because she was done.
Done being ignored in meetings.
Done asking for resources that never came.
Done carrying the team while others coasted.
She told me,
“Mike, I’d rather rebuild my pipeline from zero than stay somewhere that drains me every day.”
When your best people leave without another place to land, it’s not because they’ve lost ambition.
It’s because they’re protecting something more valuable than commission:
Their energy.
Their confidence.
Their belief in themselves
I’ve seen this happen over and over in the past two years.
Same red flags every time:
They feel smaller in the room than they do in the field
They stop sharing ideas because “it won’t matter anyway”
They start questioning whether they’re even cut out for this
They’re doing busy work instead of impactful work
Here’s the thing — the environment you build as a leader will either multiply your people… or burn them out.
And once they walk, they rarely come back.
The good news?
You can fix this before you lose them.
That’s why I coach brokers and leaders — not just to recruit better people, but to keep them.
Because retention isn’t about contracts.
It’s about culture.
Have you ever lost a top producer — not to a competitor, but to burnout?
