CREW Holiday Party at Epping Forest!

 Register now for the 2012 CREW Holiday Party!  

REGISTER NOW!

This festive event is being held at the prestigious Epping Forest Yacht Club on Tuesday, December 4th from 5:30pm until 7:30pm

Network with CREW colleagues and friends!!

Members can register guests for a reduced rate!  Bring your significant other (DATE NIGHT!!), a special friend and/or a colleague and share your enthusiasm for CREW Jacksonville!  The party will include hors d'oeuvres and a cash bar.

PACE Artwork for Auction

PACE art work will be auctioned off and proceeds will benefit PACE center for girls.

REGISTER YOU AND YOUR GUESTS NOW!

CREW Announces Award Winners and 2013 Board

Lauren Parsons Langham, Esq. Smith, Hulsey & Busey received the CREW Spirit Award.  

(pictured are Lauren Parsons Langham and Brenda Ezell)

Awarded to the CREW Jacksonville member who consistently demonstrates commitment in the following areas and exemplifies the true spirit of CREW Jacksonville:

·         Referrals to other CREW Jacksonville members for business and/or professional opportunities

·         Actively recruits potential new members

·         Committee involvement and participation in CREW Jacksonville events

·         Supports the advancement of women through mentoring and/or involvement with PACE Center for Girls

PACE Center for Girls, Jacksonville on Facebook

PACE Center for Girls, Jacksonville now has their own Facebook page for you to "like" and keep up with what is going on in their center.  PACE wants you, as their friends and followers, to be the first to know about events, updates with the girls and fun projects around the center.  Please support them by following this link:
http://www.facebook.com/pacecenterforgirlsjacksonville

Thank you!

CREW Jacksonville Insider's Tour of JIA

Several members of CREW Jacksonville attended a behind-the-scenes tour of Jacksonville International Airport the evening of July 17th.  CREWJax Member, Rosa Beckett, Chief Administrative Officer with Jacksonville Aviation Authority helped orchestrate the tour.

To see photos of the event CLICK HERE.

CREW Jacksonville Sponsors Regional Event

Please join us for Northeast Florida Regional Transportation Study Commission Draft Recommendations and Panel Discussion

August 15 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. at the UNF University Center

Cost: $30 (in advance) $35 (at door)

Registration: visit http://northflorida.uli.org

or call 1-800-321-5011

Click HERE for event flyer.

Delegates Say ‘Bienvenue’ to Two New Chapters at the Spring Leadership Summit & Council Meeting in Montreal

Mid-Year Committee Reports Highlight Organization’s Progress

Denise Kahler

Director of Marketing & Communications

CREW Network

The CREW Network organization expanded its reach into two new markets after delegates approved the affiliation requests of CREW Idaho and CREW Iowa during the recent Spring Leadership Summit & Council Meeting held in Montreal. CREW Network now has chapters in 76 major markets across the United States and Canada.

Said CREW Network President Diane Butler, “We are thrilled to welcome CREW Idaho and CREW Iowa into our organization. Both markets offer unique opportunities for our members to do business and the members of those markets now have 8,000 instant contacts within 75 additional markets across North America. This is an exciting time for everyone in CREW Network.”

CREW Jacksonville President Chapter Update

Well, the year is halfway done, and I didn’t live up to my commitment to write a quarterly column, but as they say, time flies when you’re having fun.  And having fun we are!  As you all know, the theme for this year is the “Power of 10” in honor of our 10-year anniversary.  The idea originated from last year’s CREW Network Convention in Washington, D.C., which was dubbed “The Power Center,” where hundreds of CREW members convened for the annual convention.  We were immersed in an atmosphere of empowerment and we were challenged and inspired to discover our personal power, and our power to impact the commercial real estate industry, our communities and our individual careers.  There was even a “power center” where attendees could practice elevator speeches, post their power statements, and participate in power surge discussions.  As the CREW Network Connections newsletter put it, we were one step from being plugged into a socket!  While I was still going through some business and personal challenges at the time, I left the convention literally feeling like I had the power to do anything and wishing that every CREW member had the opportunity to share in the experience, so I decided we could experience this power firsthand. 

CREW Jax Communications Chair Named to JAA Top Management Position

Rosa Beckett

The Jacksonville Aviation Authority (JAA) today announced the promotion of two high-level executives and the hiring of a new business development director.

Tony Cugno has been named chief operating officer and Rosa Beckett has been named chief administrative officer.  Jay Cunio has been brought aboard to serve as the new director of business development.

Bob Simpson, who has been serving as Interim Chief Operating Office, is returning to his post as Senior Director of Cecil Airport.

“Tony and Rosa have been instrumental in helping move JAA forward,” said JAA Executive Director and CEO Steve Grossman. “They are both well deserving of these promotions and I’m delighted to be able to make this announcement.”

creWomen Entrepreneurs

A Panel From Within

By Emily F. Crews

Heather LePetrie, C.H.H.C., facilitated a panelist of five local entrepreneurial women on June 5^th.  These women included:

Brenda Ezell, Ezell Law Firm/2012 President CREW Jacksonville

Karen Faren, First Atlantic Bank

Leigh Gunn, IIDA, Group 4 Design

Janet Herrick, Onsite Environmental Consulting LLC

Heather Sams, HAS Art Solutions

Herrick, Farah, Ezell, Sams, Gunn and LePetrie

One of the first questions for the panelists was “What encouraged you to start your own business?”

Ezell stated flatly “billable hours.”  The crowd laughed.  It sounds funny, but it was true.  In the corporate world, lawyers are generally evaluated based on the amount of hours billed to clients and when the market crashed, she just couldn’t continue to be measured by an unobtainable goal.

CREW Network Outlines Strategies for Success for Women in Commercial Real Estate - Lack of Equal Pay Contributes to Level of Dissatisfaction

Lawrence, KS – April 18, 2012 — In its latest white paper, Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Network recommends strategies for women to overcome the pay and promotion level disparities that continue to exist in the field of commercial real estate.

The white paper, Success and Satisfaction of Women in Commercial Real Estate: Retaining Exceptional Leaders, includes a summary of responses from its interviews with 20 senior commercial real estate executives regarding select findings from CREW Network’s 2010 benchmark study, Women in Commercial Real Estate 2010. That study – part of CREW Network’s tracking of women and men in commercial real estate that began in 2005 – found that more women are entering the field of commercial real estate, but that pay and promotion levels remain obstacles.

The objective of the interviews for this white paper was to discuss and provide insight into issues related to success and satisfaction in the workplace in the hope that organizations will develop and implement plans designed to retain and promote the women among their ranks.

The interviews revealed the following misconceptions about women in commercial real estate and in the workplace in general:

·         Compensation is not as important to women as it is to men

·         Women will not take risks

CREW Jacksonville Hears from Northeast Florida Regional Leaders

DOES SIZE STILL MATTER – THE “Re”EVOLUTION OF NORTHEAST FLORIDA

By Emily F. Crews

On March 6^th, CREW Jacksonville heard from four great panelists:  Cathy Chambers, JAXUSA Partnership, VP Business Development and Marketing; Elaine Brown, Former Council President City of Jacksonville and current Chair of First Coast Consortium; Stan Totman, Mayor of the City of Baldwin and immediate past chair of the Northeast Florida League of Cities; and Bob Rhodes, Regional Transportation Study Commission and Co-Chair of the Innovate Northeast Florida.  Brian Teeple, Chief Executive Officer, Northeast Florida Regional Council served as the facilitator for the panel.