Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors

We should let everyone, both in life but in, in your professional businesses in which you work, let them come to work and be who they are.

Welcome to Surveying the Future, a podcast in association with the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors.

I'm Alison McDonald.

I'm an executive director at CBRE, and I've seen immense change through my career, and I was one of the very first executive directors within CBRE to come out openly as gay, uh, which was something that I was very nervous about, but actually I had nothing to worry about.

It, it has done no detrimental effect to my career, and in fact, it's just been an, an, an amazing enhancement that I've been able to be with a company that, uh, welcomes all to be open and welcome everybody.

Um, I'm also the branch chair of Women in Property for Brighton and the South Coast, and I sit as the current chair of the Diversity and Inclusion of the committee at the Worshipful Company of Chartered Surveyors.

So I'm now going to ask each of our panelists to introduce themselves, and I'm gonna hand over to Antonia.

Hello.