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#FridayThoughts with James Fitzsimons "The best way to predict the future is to create it." — Peter Drucker Want to learn more? Go have a look at today’s newsletter. #Futureplanning #Elevateyourfuture #Elevateyourcareer

In this highlight series, my team at Michael Baker invited me to quickly share about my role, challenges, and my involvement with organizations in my industry. Check it!

#FridayThoughts with James Fitzsimons and Sylvia Jones "The best way to predict the future is to create it." — Peter Drucker Want to learn more? Go have a look at today’s newsletter. #Futureplanning #Elevateyourfuture #Elevateyourcareer

📢Introducing Trevor Siebert, a Consultant at Stanton Chase Baltimore and the newest member of Mickey Matthews' team. Click here to learn more about Trevor ➡ https://lnkd.in/dRa2aPwj #midatlantic #executivesearch #leadershipconsulting

We know no boundaries as our service area spans much larger than the Triangle footprint. It’s important for your chamber to have regional awareness so that you can better serve the membership base AND the community. Participation in programs like this are crucial to gain awareness, build relationships, and spur innovation for what we can do together to improve our community. #BuildingConnectingInspiring #RegionalDevelopment #RelationshipsMatter #DurtherTogether

Please help us welcome Erin Hulme, MBA, CLM and Lisa Wilmore to Chamberlain Hrdlicka! Erin joins us as our new chief operating officer, and Lisa is our new chief business development and marketing officer. We are excited about the experience they bring to our team and look forward to the growth they will help us achieve. To learn more, view the press release here: https://lnkd.in/ex2a-Nsq #welcometotheteam #lawfirmnews #businessdevelopment

Excited to share the op-ed that Daphne Bond-Godfrey and I co-authored in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution titled "Intentionality is key to creating equitable opportunity within commercial real estate". In this article we touch on the importance of doing our part to shape the future of the built environment, work that directly aligns with the Urban Land Institute and Baker Tilly US’s commitments to DEI, stewardship and social impact. As we think about shaping the future our industry, its imperative that we commit to addressing the lack of diverse representation in commercial real estate. For me, two areas of focus are creating onramps for diverse talent into the industry, and identifying ways to democratize access to capital for diverse developers and asset managers. Every day, I am energized by the opportunity to lead the DevelUP platform, an extensive ecosystem comprising hundreds of multidisciplinary stakeholders from across the nation. Their shared commitment to enhancing our industry fuels our collective progress. I am deeply grateful for this journey and the inspiring change-makers I have encountered along the way. I am grateful for ULI Atlanta leadership - Daphne Bond-Godfrey, Amanda Rhein, and Tyrone Rachal, and DEI Committee co-chairs Keith Mack and Quinn Green, MBA for their vision, courage and commitment to this work, as well as my Baker Tilly colleagues Don Bernards, Todd Carpenter, Nuwandi Trahan, CPA, and Tracey B. Nguyen. The work is never finished, and I am excited to see all we accomplish together. #Atlanta #Economicdevelopment #ULI #DevelUP #Buildingequityfromthegroundup #collaboration #socialimpact #DEI #furthertogether #inclusiveleadership #talentdevelopment #accesstocapital

First: Congratulations to all of these new partners. Next: We must all do better as a profession to insist on change. I’ll be very clear about this before getting into it: This is not a problem that only exists at this law firm. It’s far more common than it should be in 2024. There is at least one other larger law firm out there that has had a partnership class comprised of all men (or almost all men) and primarily white lawyers in the last year, as well as many others in recent years. This law firm just happens to have the most recent post. Take a look at the composition of this partnership class: 11/12 are men. All of the individuals appear to be white or white-passing (and yes, I will admit and acknowledge that it’s not always clear just from a photo, and there could be more to the story on this point). What’s more abysmal than the fact that many law firms keep advancing partnership classes that are essentially homogeneous? The fact that they’ve all been promising for years that they’re “creating change” and “moving the dial.”

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Insightful discussion this morning with our CBI (Confederation of British Industry) North East Future Leaders Network. What are the key current risks to British industry, and how could/should we improve resilience?