Chris

"So that was very important to me that like whatever I work on. I understand what's going on and it's not a game of telephone."

"It's a mixture of presenting research data and recommendations. If I just put numbers on the screen, nobody will care. But if I can say 'this research team says this, we're going to grow by 60%' they're more likely to sign on."

"I can really focus on...storytelling looking at the data and coming up with the why and reaching out to our business partners to understand why?"

"Excel skills are definitely important. Knowing how to easily take a large amount of data and synthesize it and make it presentable."

"I'm free to be creative in my role which I like that balance of looking at numbers for those so being creative and working with people."

"A lot of what I work on is sometimes a bit sensitive. So there's one project that I worked on that was about decreasing headcount and that's always a hard conversation to have with Business Leaders."

"I like that real estate is really intertwined with the economy. Increased interest rates easily show in sales; sales decrease, but leases go up."

"it's really about relationships"

"I wish somebody had told me how important relationships are"

"So there are a lot of entry-level positions all over the corporate side. So there is a FNA which is financial planning and Analysis."

"So really being able to talk to people that do have the answers and learn from them and learning from different industry magazines."