WOMEN IN LEADERSHIP: ELDER CARE
Women in Leadership Profile
Colliers International
Accelerating success through inclusivity
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lobal real estate services and investment
leader Colliers International values diverse
individuals.
Recognizing
diversity
and
inclusion as critical to success, this enterprising
company hires and promotes to align with evolving
clients’ needs and seeks to represent the community
landscape through its leaders.
Colliers Women’s Mentorship program exemplifies
the company’s work to promote, educate and provide
networking opportunities to elevate women’s
professional
development.
Recognizing
the
importance of champions of change, its Leadership
Pillar is dedicated to educating all leadership on the
importance of diversity and inclusion. By increasing
awareness and embracing diversity, Colliers will
remain a policy leader in this area.
“Women bring a different perspective through
their perseverance, the ability to understand other
“Women bring
a different
perspective
through their
perseverance,
the ability to
understand other
women, and
strength to move
through difficult
situations.”
— DAWN WALTZ
Senior Operations Manager
women, and strength to move through difficult
situations,” says Dawn Waltz, senior operations
manager. “Colliers and our industry are seeing
more women in brokerage and other sectors than
just 10 years ago.”
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across a variety of roles, including two women with
director titles, overseeing lease administration
and property management, and others holding
senior vice president and senior management
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and resources, hands-on care versus
paid services, with no easy answers.
“It’s just hard to map all of that out,”
Annie says, “because you’re already
doing so much and strapped for time
as it is.”
Javaheri says when he started
his career, he was naively baff led by
the aversion to assisted-living and
skilled-nursing facilities, given how
difficult it can be to provide care in a
home setting. Twelve years later, he
finds himself less confused. “I real-
ized that … being a caregiver to your
loved one is actually a very satisfying
role,” he says. “It’s a rewarding role
besides all the challenges. … There is
more to caregiving, and I think part
of it is the satisfaction you get as a
caregiver to your loved ones.”
When Martarano’s father strug-
gled transitioning from independent
to assisted living, she set up a small
art studio in his quarters. Though he’d
spent his career in advertising, he did
pen-and-ink drawing as a hobby. This
personal touch allowed him a smooth-
er transition into his new quarters,
and “he grew to love assisted living,”
she says.
For Annie, worries surface at night.
“That’s usually when my anxiety hits,”
she says. “It’s the middle of the night,
and I’ll wake up just spinning on this
or that. … I don’t let it overtake me,
because I understand why it’s there.
I try to focus on solutions; I just don’t
have all the solutions for this next hill.
I think there is a big undercurrent of
stress, more than I know.”
Even with so much of the future
uncertain, Annie says she and her par-
ents have always had a close relation-
ship, and caretaking for them now is a
given. “It’s a lot, but I wouldn’t have it
any other way,” she says. “I’m glad to
be able to be there for them. It worries
me what would happen if I wasn’t able
to be there.”
Allison Joy is the former editor-in-chief for
Comstock’s. On Twitter @MsAllisonJoy.