Leadership Lessons From Company Leaders- A Special Episode (#64)

Willy Walker Walker & Dunlop Don Wood Federal Realty Bob Youngentob EYA Paul McDermott WashREIT 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 lessonsAbility to taking a long term approach Develop a long term vision and execute that planWilly Walker Clip (7:20)Banking business needed to be built upScale to limit risk of mortgage brokers leaving and affecting revenuesBuild servicing portfolio from $3B to $112B“No Jerk” Policy stories led to scaling business to eliminate his “jerk”5 Yr. Planning process was formedKevin’s reaction (13:23)Not a clear cut decision to change the business up frontVulnerability reaction was to scale larger instead of “shrinking back”John’s reaction (15:00)Growing his company 5X in 5 yrs. to accomplish this goalsCompetitive personWilly Walker Clip (17:20)Didn’t want...