Sarah Berman, President of The Berman Group, New York City.

The Berman Group provides public relations, marketing, and special events services to businesses in the real estate industry. As founder and president of the Berman Group, Sara Berman leverages industry knowledge and relationships and works to develop creative communications programs to increase business and reach new audiences.

Sarah Berman.

What has been your biggest challenge or obstacle as a woman in this Industry and how have you overcome those obstacles?  One of the biggest obstacles as a woman in my role was that I never connected with women role models early in my career and I didn't have a network of female peers who were my age when I first started out. Most of my early mentors were men which never held me back and fortunately caused me to speak up and seek out mentors who were not exactly like myself. Today I have found women mentors but continue to have men as equally valuable mentors as well.