Event hosted by: CREW Greater Philadelphia
2026 Leadership Program
The CREW Greater Philadelphia Leadership Program is designed to advance the success of women in commercial real estate and further their career goals by providing high quality training and information on key leadership skills, the opportunity to create a personal development plan, and to build a stronger network and connection with their cohort class.
This year-long program includes:
Initial networking kickoff reception with program cohorts and members of the CREW Greater Philadelphia Board of Directors.
Four facilitated professional development sessions
A lessons-learned roundtable discussion and completion ceremony.
The application and full payment of $500 must be received by February 16, 2026.
Session Schedule
Thursday, March 12 | 5 – 7 PM | Meet Your 2026 Cohort Happy Hour
Tria Events, 1726 Sansom Street, Philadelphia
Tuesday, March 17 | 9 - 11 AM | Self Awareness for Leaders, Joan Marshall, SPHR, CPC, ACC, PI Midlantic
King of Prussia, PA
Tuesday, April 7 | 9 - 11 AM | Radical Candor for Leaders, Joan Marshall, SPHR, CPC, ACC, PI Midlantic
Two Liberty Place Executive Board Room, 3rd Fl., Philadelphia
Tuesday, September 29 | 9 - 11 AM | Mindful Leadership, Neelam Samat, CEO, Here and Now Coaching
Two Liberty Place Executive Board Room, 3rd Fl., Philadelphia
Tuesday, October 13 | 9 - 11 AM | The Power Ask, Natalie Shieh, Founder and Principal, New Anthem Solutions (Strategy + Coaching)
King of Prussia, PA
Tuesday, November 3 | 9 - 11 AM | Lessons Learned & Graduation
Two Liberty Place Executive Board Room, 3rd Fl., Philadelphia
Session Information
One of the top-rated competencies for leaders is self-awareness. You will have the opportunity to learn more about your strengths, drives, and motivating needs through the insights from your Predictive Index® results (also known as the PI). Prior to this session, you will receive a link to complete the PI and you’ll receive your personal results so you can follow along during this interactive and eye-opening workshop. You’ll learn how to use this leadership tool to better understand your leadership style, and what your team may need from you.
Presented by:
Joan Marshall, SPHR, CPC, ACC
PIMidlantic
The principle behind author Kim Scott’s “Radical Candor®” is “Caring Personally while Challenging Directly.” At this workshop, we’ll explore and learn the Radical Candor Framework® to help guide your conversations to be more effective, productive, and powerful for you and your team. From your first day at work, you’ve been told to be professional. Too often, that’s interpreted as leaving your humanity at home. To build strong relationships, you have to Care Personally. This can be as simple as showing enough vulnerability to admit when you’re having a bad day and creating a safe place for others to do the same. Since you learned to talk you’ve likely been told some version of, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” Then you become the boss and the very thing you’ve been taught not to do since you were a toddler is suddenly your job. In order to be the most impactful and successful leader you can be, you have to Challenge Directly. Believe it or not, challenging people is often the best way to show you care. It does not mean that whatever you think is the truth; it means you share your (humble) opinions and observations directly.
Presented by:
Joan Marshall, SPHR, CPC, ACC
PIMidlantic
Discover why 80% of career success hinges on mastery of mindset. This session deconstructs limiting beliefs, fears, and self-doubt while building the emotional intelligence and four core competencies—Commitment, Courage, Capabilities, and Confidence—that define next-level leadership. Leave with clarity on what 10X growth looks like for you.
Designing Your Strategic Growth Roadmap
Translate mindset shifts into concrete action. Visualize your next-level reality, solidify your leadership purpose, identify obstacles, create advocates and determine what must evolve. Build your personalized growth roadmap using Mindset Mastery as your foundation for sustainable executive acceleration.
Presented by:
Neelam Samant, PCC, CPA
Executive Leadership Coach
When Work Is Built on Risk, Trust Becomes the Foundation
In commercial real estate, every deal, decision, and partnership involves risk — and trust is what makes progress possible.
In this culminating session, Natalie Shieh brings together the insights from the program’s earlier modules — self-awareness of your behavioral drives, radical candor in communication, and mindfulness in leadership — into one powerful framework for building trust within your teams.
Using the Triangle of Trust (authenticity, logic, and empathy) as the foundation, participants will explore how thoughts shape actions and how to rewire habits that strengthen collaboration and psychological safety. Through live role-play scenarios drawn from real CRE leadership moments, you’ll practice applying radical candor with confidence, read somatic cues, and learn Natalie’s Power Ask framework to communicate expectations with clarity, respect, and courageous empathy.
Leave with practical tools — and a renewed sense of trust in yourself and those you lead — to navigate risk and growth together.
Presented by:
Natalie Shieh
Founder + Principal
New Anthem Solutions
Speakers
