Wade Shealy began his sales career while attending the University of Georgia where he studied landscape architecture.  He sold dictionaries door-to-door for the Southwestern Company to pay for his college expenses and quickly became one of their top salesmen in the 150-year history of the company. During this time he built a large sales organization and after he graduated from UGA, with honors, decided to join the company full time as a sales manager training and managing thousands of college students. His hard work was recognized and he was awarded Sales Manager of the Year for four straight years.

In 1984, Wade began selling real estate on Hilton Head Island. After two years as one of the island’s top sales people, he co-founded one of the largest and most successful real estate companies in South Carolina.

Over the past twenty years, he has consulted for several Fortune 500 companies on real estate sales and development and has been responsible for managing more than $2.5 billion in resort development and sales.

In February 2001, he joined Intrawest as vice president of sales and marketing for the Eastern US, the Caribbean, and Mexico. He was responsible for the largest regional growth in the company by increasing his region from one resort to eleven resorts in the short span of two years.

He was an integral part of the envisioning and creation for Baytowne Wharf at Sandestin and led the sales team to a successful sellout of the project.

In addition, he produced sales videos and cassettes with nationally known sales trainer Tom Hopkins.

In 2003, Wade Shealy purchased Hampton Island and was a visionary force behind the land plan and product concept.  Hampton Island is considered one of the lowest impact coastal communities in America.  As managing member and developer,  he was instrumental in bringing the 2006 Southern Accents Showcase House to the island.

 The Robb Report recently featured Hampton Island as one of the top three private recreational communities in America. Additional news articles include The Wall Street Journal, Georgia Trend, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution,  Links Magazine,  Private Air, Coastal Living, Golf Georgia,  American Spa, Golf Magazine Living, Executive Traveler, Savannah Magazine, The New York Times, the Land Rover Lifestyle magazine, and in more than 1000 national and international publications. Wade has since sold all of his interest in Hampton Island and no longer has any involvement with the project.

During the last five years Wade Shealy has provided consulting on envisioning and design for more than a dozen new coastal resort communities.  Other properties he has been involved in include Wild Heron Florida, Punta Mita Mexico, and Veranda at Turks and Caicos.

Throughout the resort industry Shealy is considered one of the foremost experts on envisioning and product design. He has been featured in numerous publications including the LA Times, Georgia Trend magazine, The University of Georgia Terry Magazine and has been quoted many times in The Wall Street Journal.

In 2004 he was awarded the Tree Friendly Developer of the Year for coastal Georgia and has received numerous awards for marketing, architecture, and land planning.

He is a member of the Urban Land Institute, past member of the Governor’s Land Conservation Partnership Advisory Council, Coastal Marshlands Protection Committee, Georgia Land Conservation Council, and has been a guest lecturer for the Department of Natural Resources on Green Infrastructure and the UGA School of Environment and Design and the Terry School of Business. He has also been a guest lecturer for the University of Georgia Alumni Association.  Shealy resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

Wade is the managing member of Shealy and Company. To learn more about
Shealy and Company go to www.shealyandcompany.com.