Conor Krup, Ra'eesa Motala and Trent Shirk at the Lee Brokers Summit

LAS VEGAS—Lee & Associates is ushering in the next generation of brokers. The firm has made a fervent commitment to mentoring and training programs to support new brokers, and the company culture and shared-ownership model is attracting a lot of new talent. At Lee & Associates' annual broker's summit in Las Vegas, GlobeSt.com sat down with three of the firm's top rookies to find out first-hand about the mentorship program.

Ra'eesa Motala, associate at Lee Twin Cities; Conor Krup, associate at Lee New York City; and Trent Shirk, associate at Lee Orange, sat down for the exclusive interview. In addition to giving some insight into their experience with the mentorship program, the young brokers talk about why they were attracted to the industry, how they are using technology and what they have learned are crucial characteristics of a good broker.

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Kelsi Maree Borland

Kelsi Maree Borland is a freelance journalist and magazine writer based in Los Angeles, California. For more than 5 years, she has extensively reported on the commercial real estate industry, covering major deals across all commercial asset classes, investment strategy and capital markets trends, market commentary, economic trends and new technologies disrupting and revolutionizing the industry. Her work appears daily on GlobeSt.com and regularly in Real Estate Forum Magazine. As a magazine writer, she covers lifestyle and travel trends. Her work has appeared in Angeleno, Los Angeles Magazine, Travel and Leisure and more.