Women of Influence Podcast Series: Julie Baird & Shayna Platt

The Crexi Commercial Real Estate Podcast: Conversations in All Things CRE

This is the Women of Influence Podcast series, delivering next level insights and expertise live from GlobeSt.’s Women of Influence Conference.

The Women of Influence Podcast Series is an exclusive mini-series of The Crexi Podcast, an insider’s look at all things commercial real estate, produced in collaboration with GlobeSt. The Crexi team visited Women of Influence and recorded in Lake Tahoe, California, from the floor of the conference, highlighting movers and shakers in commercial real estate.

The Crexi Podcast explores various aspects of the commercial real estate industry in conversation with some of the top professionals in the space. In each episode, we feature different guests to tap into their wealth of CRE expertise and explore the latest trends and updates from the world of commercial real estate.

In this episode, Crexi’s Shanti Ryle sits with Julie Baird, President of First American Exchange Company, and Shayna Platt, Senior Director, ESG, at BioMed Realty, to cover wide-ranging topics, including:

• Introduction to the Crexi Podcast
• Meet Julie Baird: A Leader in Real Estate
• Julie's Career Journey
• Building a Collaborative Culture
• Challenges and Achievements
• Meeting People Where They Are
• Creating a Collaborative Culture
• Advice for Young Leaders
• Building Trust and Collaboration
• Challenges and Opportunities for Women in Leadership
• Industry-Wide Efforts for Diversity
• Conclusion and Contact Information
• Shayna Platt's Journey into ESG
• University Influence and Early Career
• Role at BioMed Realty
• Understanding ESG in Commercial Real Estate
• Challenges in Implementing ESG Practices
• Gaining Internal Buy-In and Engagement
• Positive Outcomes and Executive Support
• Future Trends in Life Sciences Real Estate
• The Importance of Accurate ESG Data
• Advice for Young Professionals in ESG
• Connecting and Mentoring in ESG
• Closing Remarks

About Julie Baird:

Julie Baird is President of First American Exchange Company. She leverages people centered leadership practices to foster an organizational culture of collaboration, transparency, and trust, with employees reporting high job satisfaction while delivering record setting financial results.

A fierce advocate for elevating female voices within the CRE industry, Julie has been a member of GlobeSt Woman of Influence speaking faculty since its inception and was awarded as a Woman of Influence in 2023; she was awarded First American’s DPK Circle of Excellence Award in 2022, a recognition given to a very small number of the highest achieving employees in the entire organization of nearly 20,000 employees, and Julie was invited to participate in First American’s Women in Leadership class of 2021 and selected by her class as a presenter to the First American Financial executive team.

Julie is a past President of the Federation of Exchange Accommodators and is past Director for CREW Denver. She is a frequent speaker and author on 1031 exchange and industry related topics.

Julie is a former Chair of the Executive Committee of the Real Property Law Section of the State Bar of California and she is the prior Managing Editor of the California Real Property Journal. In 2009, Julie was named as one of the "Top 20 Under 40" real estate professionals by the Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW) Network.

Prior to joining First American, Julie was a real estate attorney in San Francisco.

About Shayna Platt:

Shayna Platt is the Senior Director of Environmental Social Governance (ESG) at BioMed Realty. A Blackstone Real Estate portfolio company, BioMed Realty is a leading provider of real estate solutions to the life science and technology industries. BioMed owns and operates high quality life science real estate comprising 15.9 million square feet concentrated in leading innovation markets throughout the United States and United Kingdom, including Boston/Cambridge, San Francisco, San Diego, Seattle, Boulder and Cambridge, U.K. In addition, BioMed maintains a premier development platform with 2.5 million square feet of Class A properties in active construction to meet the growing demand of the life science industry.

About GlobeSt. Women of Influence:

The Women of Influence Conference is an exclusive two-day event that celebrates the women who drive the commercial real estate industry forward. These influential leaders will discuss the critical issues facing CRE now and in the future, what it means to be a woman in business today and how women CRE leaders can uplift and support each other on their journey to the top.

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