Austin Women Trailblazers
Bisnow is honoring Austin’s most influential trailblazers by hosting the first annual Inaugural Austin Women Leading Real Estate Event on October 19, 2022. Bisnow’s Trailblazers are top-level women executives and industry powerhouses who influence the way commercial real estate is done in ATX. Read what Bisnow’s Katherine Carlon had to say about this year’s trailblazers and the insight she received from the women in this male-dominated industry.
Building The plane While Flying It
Women In Austin CRE Are Soaring
Bisnow’s inaugural Austin Women Leading Real Estate event highlights the trailblazers, the women who “do hard things,” in the words of one of this year’s honorees.
Whether they're top performers at large companies, branched off to start their own firm, made their name as a champion of diversity and inclusion or sustainability, or are an all-around industry innovator, these 24 influential women leaders from all sectors of the commercial real estate world are an integral part of Austin’s explosive growth.
“Women are making huge strides and we have a long way to go,” said 2022 honoree Beck-Reit Commercial Real Estate owner and founder DeLea Becker, who emphasized trailblazers don’t simply set out on a new path.
“They investigate, plan, and prepare. Then they leap and build the plane while they are flying it,” she said.
This year’s cohort celebrates investors and developers, women in legal, city and professional services, and sales and leasing dynamos. It also highlights women making a name for themselves in operations and asset management, and those redefining construction, architecture and design.
All of them have done so in a changing, but still male-dominated industry, especially at the boardroom and executive level. Women made up 23.5% of the highest-ranking executives at the country's largest commercial real estate firms, according to Bisnow’s most recent industry analysis in 2021.
All 24 of this year’s Austin trailblazers will be honored at an Oct. 19 event that will recognize them and promote the importance of employing and developing viable career paths for women in CRE via education, networking and resources for professional development.
Twenty of this year’s class are profiled below. Bisnow’s 2022 class of Austin Women Leading Real Estate also includes TM1 Properties CEO Amy Tiemann, Gables Residential Vice President of Investments Jennifer Wiebrand, Site Selections President Susan Harris and Broaddus Construction Chief Financial Officer Heather Wakefield.
— Katharine Carlon, Central U.S. editor
What’s a trailblazer to you? Check out the answers Beck-Reit Commercial received in the video below!
