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2019 Women in Real Estate: Robyn Kiernan, Phase Zero Design

Robyn Kiernan

Senior Associate - Project Architect

Phase Zero Design

What is your favorite motivational quote and who was it by? “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” - Franklin D. Roosevelt

Who was the best speaker you have seen at an event? I recently had the chance to hear two speakers whose messages really resonated with me. They were Anders Sorman-Nilsson, a global futurist and innovation strategist and Brian Beaulieu, an economist with insight about the future of our economy. If a speaker requires me to think critically and put what they say into action after I leave, that’s how I know that what they talked about impacted me in some way.

Who inspired you to join the CRE industry? My father inspired me to join the CRE industry, actually. He was a real estate investor all my life and really allowed me get my hands wet with residential properties at an early age which got me so invested. I knew that this is the industry that I wanted to be in ever since I was a kid!

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