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Young Pro Reveals: How to Lead

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ-C&W senior director Brian Whitmer believes that if you're not at the table, you're on the menu.

By John Salustri | Updated on April 11, 2013

EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ-Thirty-three-year-old Brian Whitmer defines himself as a leader. It’s certainly accurate in the textbook sense in that as a senior director at the local office of Cushman & Wakefield, he has a team of five he directs in multifamily investment sales.

But it’s true in the larger sense as well, in that Whitmer by both nature and nurture embraces leadership as a way of life. “I think of myself as a leader because I grew up in a household where both my parents ran their own business,” says Whitmer, who received his BBA from the University of Michigan in 2002. (A nine-year C&W veteran, his first job out of college was at LaSalle Bank in Chicago.)

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