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These professionals need little introduction. They are women whose names today are recognizable without affiliations with any organization. They have made their mark on the business and have paved the way for others of their gender to achieve their goals. They are individuals who have established benchmarks of success and repeatedly appear on our rosters. They are legends of the industry.

Dorothy Alpert
Formerly the national sector leader for real estate at Deloitte, Dorothy Alpert today is one of three deputy managing partners for the firm's Northeast region. She is active in Deloitte's women's initiative, for which she led an effort to raise $1.5 million to endow the Ellen Gabriel Chair for Women and Leadership at the Simmons School of Management, and was the dean of “Leading Edge,” a development program for high-potential women partners. Outside of Deloitte, over the past year she has been part of the executive and steering committees for ULI's Women's Leadership Initiative, watching the program become a reality. She also recently joined New York Women Executives in Real Estate, an invitation-only association of executive-level professionals. Fostering a desire to build a team of leaders, Alpert says, “Senior women in the industry need to create an environment to help other women. We need to push women to support one another in all aspects of their careers.”