Note: Each Leader’s name above is linked to their original podcast episode
Show Notes
Together with three members of The Iconic Journey in CRE, the community of young CRE professionals formed in 2021, Kevin Dean, Colin Madden, and Rameez Munawar, we assembled a special episode to extract leadership lessons from four recent episodes of the podcast. Below will be insights from each leader’s episode followed by a discussion of why each leader is suited to its company based on their particular leadership style and challenges they have and continue to address.
Willy Walker Segment
- Kevin Dean’s overview (6:00)
- Leadership lessons
- Ability to taking a long term approach
- Develop a long term vision and execute that plan
- Willy Walker Clip (7:20)
- Banking business needed to be built up
- Scale to limit risk of mortgage brokers leaving and affecting revenues
- Build servicing portfolio from $3B to $112B
- “No Jerk” Policy stories led to scaling business to eliminate his “jerk”
- 5 Yr. Planning process was formed
- Kevin’s reaction (13:23)
- Not a clear cut decision to change the business up front
- Vulnerability reaction was to scale larger instead of “shrinking back”
- John’s reaction (15:00)
- Growing his company 5X in 5 yrs. to accomplish this goals
- Competitive person
- Willy Walker Clip (17:20)
