Obada Alsalhani

Obada Alsalhani spent years in timeshare, one of the hardest rooms in sales. He finished as the number one timeshare salesperson in the country. Then he finished as the number one in the world. That is not a figure of speech. For years, nobody on the planet sold it better.

The view from the top.

Number one comes with everything people chase: the income, the recognition, a reputation that opened any door in the industry. What it did not come with was meaning. He was the best in the world at selling something that did not change anyone’s life, and he knew it.

He walked away to change lives.

So he left at the top. He chose life insurance for one reason: he wanted work that changes lives. A policy sold honestly decides what happens to a family on their worst day. That was worth starting over for. He founded Checkmate Financial Group and brought his reputation with him.

An agency built differently.

The typical agency plays a volume game. Recruit as many agents as possible, hand them leads that have been resold five times, and let churn sort it out. Obada built the opposite. Checkmate runs on fresh leads from people who genuinely asked for help, agents who are developed instead of burned through, and recommendations matched to what the family needs. No cold calling. The agency even built its own AI engine in-house to read 40+ carriers against every client profile, so the recommendation fits the family instead of the quota.

Eight days a week.

Ask the floor about his schedule and you will hear the same line: Obada works eight days a week, twenty-five hours a day. Nobody is entirely sure it is a joke. He leads from the front, holds himself to the standard he asks of everyone else, and treats the agency like what it is: 700+ careers and every family they protect, riding on the work being done right.

Anywhere the work goes.

The photos on this page are not vacations. They are business trips. Tokyo, the foothills of Mt. Fuji, San Francisco: the agency travels with him, and he builds from anywhere. Back home there is a family he loves dearly, and a dog.