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50 Responses for A.4. A.5. CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY

At C&W, we are committed to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of diversity and inclusion. C&W attracts, develops, and retains a diverse, talented, creative, and innovative workforce by fostering an environment that is inclusive at all levels and where each individual feels welcomed, valued, respected, and inspired to contribute to the success of our firm, its business partners, and the global community. Inclusion is a business philosophy and a way of managing and behaving that is embedded in everything we do. In fact, C&Wwas just recently named one of America’s Best Employers for Diversity 2019 by Forbes. As a people and ideas company, our people are at the very heart of our business strategy—and diversity is critical to attracting and retaining the best people. At C&Wwe believe diverse teams and diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes and breakthrough thinking, which are differentiators in any services business, and clearly fundamental to our long-term success. C&W embraces and encourages its employees’ differences in age, color, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique because we know that our human capital is the most valuable asset we have. WIN (Women’s Integrated Network) C&W created our Women’s Integrated Network (or “WIN”) to help develop and support the talents of our female team members, so they continue to have a meaningful impact on the firm’s performance. With over 2,400 members across 40 cities worldwide, C&W is committed to expanding opportunities for women in the field of commercial real estate. Sherry Cushman, Brownstein Core Team member, served as a member of WIN’s first Advisory Board which developed the initiative’s foundation, including its mission. In addition, Sherry served as Co-Chair of the Recruitment Initiative which developed a program at the high school / college, mid-career, and senior levels for women who are considering real estate as a profession and how C&W can attract talent to the industry and the company.

For the past three years, WIN has partnered with LSAG to host C&W’s premier event, Women in Law, that brings together a panel of highly successful law firm and in-house counsel leaders to share their experiences and insights on taking charge and succeeding in the legal industry. Now in its third year, Women in Law has proven to be a great success in New York City, Chicago, Washington, D.C. and plans are in place to expand the program to San Francisco and Boston in 2019. The event draws in crowds of over 150 attendees and proves to be a great networking opportunity that results in lasting relationships for both panelists and attendees. CLICK HERE FOR WOMEN IN LAW VIDEO .

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