What You Can Expect
Broadening Your Organization’s Perspective
The Real Estate Executive Seminar brings global business leaders together with world-renowned academics and real estate practitioners to consider scenarios, risks, and opportunities in a time of great challenges for the built environment. By exploring critical industry issues from all angles, this intensive leadership development program equips participants with new skills and the latest research to ensure the durability of their real estate projects and investments. Your firm will enhance its ability to:
- Evaluate risks and rewards across a range of financing and investment options, improving capital allocation and portfolio management
- Consider the long-term viability of mixed-use developments, including infrastructure needs
- Analyze and evaluate opportunity funds, including those backed by private equity and private debt
- Consider the past—and future—of securitizing real property
- Negotiate profitable deal structures for complex projects
Improving Your Effectiveness as a Real Estate Leader
Most real estate practitioners know how to improve risk-adjusted returns by managing operating costs and keeping tenants happy. But to succeed in today’s dynamic marketplace, leaders must be more forward thinking, collaborative, and flexible in financing, designing, and building structures. You will learn to:
- Manage and lead change at all levels of the organization
- Define corporate direction and manage resources more effectively through the business cycle
- Incorporate scenario planning when the business environment is becoming less certain
- Think through the potential long-term impacts of resource scarcity and infrastructure planning on your real estate projects and investments
"The program’s value went far beyond expanding my knowledge of topics such as construction and branding. I learned how to approach the field with greater professionalism and how to manage ideas from great minds so that everyone can learn from one another. It was one of the most rewarding experiences of my life."
Mark Gadeloff [Owner], Grande Realty & Development, Panama