Application Deadline: February 16, 2026
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 the cohort class.
*The cost associated with the 2026 Leadership Program is $500 per member. The cost can be paid in four installments of $125. Should the minimum number of 10 participants not be reached, a full refund will be issued to any member who has paid. All fees must be paid 30 days prior to start of the program or by February 16, 2026.
Questions? Contact Annemarie Caruso.
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
Bala Consulting Engineers, 1285 Drummers Lane, Suite 200, King of Prussia
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)
Bala Consulting Engineers, 1285 Drummers Lane, Suite 200, King of Prussia
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
PI Midlantic
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
PI Midlantic
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
Joan Marshall
PI Midlantic
Joan brings 25+ years of diverse experience in executive Human Resource functions to her role as a Certified Talent Optimization Advisor with PI Midlantic and as a Certified Professional Coach.
Prior to joining the Predictive Index family in 2002, she worked as a Human Resources leader for companies such as Towers Perrin (now Willis Towers Watson), Grant Thornton, eCal Corporation, American Business Financial Services and the American Red Cross. With more than 20 years’ experience supporting her clients, she enjoys combining her HR leadership experience with the power of PI’s Talent Optimization tools to help her clients achieve their goals, create fully engaged teams, and build strong corporate cultures.
As an Executive Coach, Joan enjoys coaching leaders and emerging leaders, utilizing her training and certification in Core Energy Coaching (iPEC) and Emotional Intelligence Coaching (EQi 2.0). She is a Master Practitioner for the Energy Leadership Index and the ELI 360. Joan has created and delivered powerful leadership bootcamps, team dynamics sessions, and management skills training programs to non-profit and for-profit organizations. She has guided organizations in creating core values and strategic plans, as well as organizational restructures.
Her specialty during her years in HR was in designing and building human resource functions from the ground up for emerging and growth-oriented companies. As a true HR generalist and leader, her experience encompasses many functions including recruitment and retention, employee relations, policy and procedure development, training and development, compensation and benefits plan design, administration, payroll, and mergers and acquisitions.
Joan holds a bachelor’s degree in human resource management from Temple University as well as SPHR accreditation, EQi 2.0 certification, and CPC, ELI-MP, and ACC (ICF) Coaching certifications.
Joan lives in Southampton, NJ with her two standard poodles and two rescue cats. Her son and daughter-in-law live nearby. She is an avid reader and life-long student who is always looking for the next thing to learn and share with others.
Neelam Samant
Here and Now Coaching
A professional certified coach with 20+ years of Fortune 100/500 experience and 11 years as a Finance & IT Senior Leader partnering with C-Suite executives. Neelam specializes in authentic leadership transformation, helping accomplished leaders unlock their potential through emotional intelligence, influence building, and performance acceleration.
Her approach combines deep listening with actionable strategies in a judgment-free space where leaders explore beliefs and blocks holding them back. She builds trusting relationships that drive measurable outcomes of clarity, confidence, and sustained leadership capacity across corporate, government, real estate, biotech, and technology sectors.
What you get: Authentic, effective leadership that takes your executive influence to the next level.
Natalie Shieh
New Anthem Solutions
Natalie Shieh is an executive coach, strategist, and founder of New Anthem Solutions, a Philadelphia-based practice that helps leaders and organizations move forward with clarity, courage, and impact.
Prior to founding New Anthem, Natalie held senior leadership roles at Amtrak, the City of Philadelphia, and Brandywine Realty Trust, where she led complex urban planning, real estate, and economic development initiatives — including the $550 million 30th Street Station Renovation. Her two decades of work across the public and private sectors have focused on advancing inclusive growth and transforming how teams collaborate on high-stakes projects.
Drawing on this experience, Natalie now coaches and advises executives, civic leaders, and mission-driven organizations to build trust, alignment, and strategy from the inside out. She brings a rare blend of technical expertise and human insight to help people turn ambitious ideas into tangible impact.
