Episode 02 - Bola Abisogun FRICS Director of Urbanis, Chartered Surveying and Construction Management Services

In this episode Bola talks about his motivation for starting a company offering specialist support in Chartered Surveying and Construction Management and how the American arm of the company was formed. Bola gives some important points about setting up your own business and talks about the Construction Leadership Diversity Forum and the work they do. He explains his initiative YBM to USA "on a tour of themselves". As the founding role model of the Black Training Enterprise Group BTEG, Bola explains the services BTEG offers and the best way to access BTEG. Bola finishes off talking about DiverseCity Surveyors a new initiative to engage the next generation of surveyors focusing on increasing the black and minority ethnic (BAME) membership in the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) from the current 1.2%. For more information on the DiverseCity's logo competition please go to: http://www.urbanis.co.uk/diversecity-surveyors-logo-competition/ Closing date for competition entries is 4th July 2017 Websites: http://www.urbanis.co.uk/ www.diversecity-surveyors.com Email: [email protected]