NKF recently promoted Liz Hart to vice chairman and she is the first woman in that position in the Bay Area.
SAN FRANCISCO—In 1984, only about 100 CCIMs were women. As of 2016, some 2,000 CCIMs were women. And women are stepping into leadership positions in a number of industry organizations, including ICSC, NAIOP, IREM, CPM and the Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute, which have all counted women as organization presidents.
Admittedly, women in commercial real estate are still a smaller percentage of the workplace population. However, the female ranks are growing, albeit gradually.
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Lisa Brown
Lisa Brown is an editor for the south and west regions of GlobeSt.com. She has 25-plus years of real estate experience, with a regional PR role at Grubb & Ellis and a national communications position at MMI. Brown also spent 10 years as executive director at NAIOP San Francisco Bay Area chapter, where she led the organization to achieving its first national award honors and recognition on Capitol Hill. She has written extensively on commercial real estate topics and edited numerous pieces on the subject.
