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CELEBRATING CULTURE | BEHIND THE SUPPORT Angela Matassino - Vice President Ed Hart - Designer Q: What’s a work-related accomplishment that you’re really proud of? A: Working at the same company from almost 15 years Q: What’s a work-related accomplishment that you’re really proud of? A: Within the first few months of working at JLL I was able to apply my background in print, fabrication, and installation in order to help our team assemble a marketing center that needed to meet a very aggressive deadline. Q: How do you prefer to start your day? A: Listening to podcasts on my drive in to the office. Q: What’s the last book you read? A: Where the Crawdads Sing – Delia Owens Q: What’s the best advise you were ever given and who was it from? A: Be able to admit when you are wrong – I don’t remember Callie Loyd - Brokerage Assistant Q: What behavior or personality trait do you most attribute your success and why? A: Being teachable – I’ve had so many opportunities because I said ‘yes’ and tried something new. Admitting I didn’t know something and being willing to learn has subsequently taught me so much. Q: What’s your go-to productivity trick? A: I’m a list-er. I make lists for anything and everything. And the satisfaction of crossing something off once completed? Definitely keeps me productive! Q: What are you most passionate about? A: Music!! Q: What’s the last book you’ve read? A: “To Shake The Sleeping Self” by Jedidiah Jenkins – highly recommend! Candy Brown - Senior Brokerage Assistant Q: What’s one professional skill you are currently working on? A: Business writing Q: What was your first job? A: Dominos Pizza – Customer Rep of the Year for 1996 LOL Q: Who inspires you? A: My mother Q: What’s the last book you read? A: Geographies of Home – Loida Maritza Perez Diana Kopac - Senior Brokerage Assistant Q: How do you prefer to start your day? A: Quietly Q: What’s your favorite way to unwind from a busy day? A: Play with my dog Q: Who inspires you? A: My mother. She was an engineer back in Slovakia, moved to the US when she turned 40 with my dad to give us a better life and to this day she works in the city in housekeeping. She gave up everything for us and works extremely hard each day, comes home exhausted but never regrets the sacrifice she made. Q: If you could snap your fingers and become an expert in something, what would it be? A: A guru in investment and finances. Q: How do you prefer to start your day? A: Going through my emails and creating an agenda of what I’d like to accomplish by the end of the day. Q: Who inspires you? A: Anyone that defies the odds. I’d have to say Eric LeGrand, a former Rutgers football player who was paralyzed while making a tackle. Despite his doctors gloomy prognosis, he regained movement in his shoulders, sensation throughout his body and began breathing on his own after being told he would need a ventilator for the rest of his life. Q: What’s the last book you read? A: Building a Story Brand – Donald Miller Elizabeth DeVesty - Art Director Q: What’s a work-related accomplishment that you’re really proud of? A: Becoming an Art Director on the IA team after nearly 10 years. Q: What’s your favorite way to unwind from a busy day? A: Spending time with my husband and two children and hearing about their day. Q: Who inspires you? A: My children – they inspire me to be a better person. Q: What’s the best advise you were ever given and who was it from? A: Be the type of person you want to meet - Anonymous Jen Jones - Vice President Q: What was your first job? A: Star-Ledger paper girl Q: How do you prefer to start your day? A: COFFEE Q: Who would you like to swap places with for a day? A: Jodie Matthews when she is on one of her exotic excursions Q: What’s one totally irrational fear that you have? A: Ostriches (traumatized from a family trip to the Great Adventure Safari as a child :) – when they tell you to keep the windows closed, keep them closed!)