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Posted: June 21, 2016
2016 Women in Real Estate: Michelle Marie Zere
Michelle Marie Zere, ZereReal Estate Services
Name: Michelle Marie Zere
Title: Executive Vice President
Company: Zere Real Estate Services
What time management strategies do you find to be the most effective for you?
I am old school Italian and I like to talk, so I pick up the phone and call direct when I need to speak with someone. There are so many layers of communication avoidance–emails, texts, cell phones, office numbers, gate keepers, etc. Spinning around in circles is not my game. Relationships are important.
What is the best advice you received and who was it from?
My mother, Marie Zere, president & CEO Zere Real Estate Services said to me, “ Be yourself, not me. You have many talents and one of those is your dedication to business development for the company, in depth knowledge of media and over 28 years in the commercial real estate industry doing deals.”
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