Tanya Austin, project manager of project and developmentservices at JLL, likes to separate work and leisure and urgesothers to do the same, noting that once the work day is over, it isover. “I try to focus my mind on zen-like things.”

Austin is one of the many strong women at JLL and in the CREindustry. She specializes in hotel renovations, adaptive re-use,and tenant improvement projects. Her role at JLL involves thedevelopment of scope, coordination of all project activitiesincluding budget and schedule management, bidding and negotiation,construction management, reporting and oversight of FF&Eprocurement.

For JLL's Liz Newcomer, marketing manager of the Phoenix Marketfor JLL, she attributes her life balance to her husband, saying heis “the one to ground me and always remind me to take moments formyself or for us.” She adds that he's constantly encouraging her tofind time to relax or do things to clear her mind so she is notalways in work mode.

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And according to Newcomer, who oversees all marketing operationsin the Phoenix market from property marketing to new businessdevelopment to enhancing or promoting the JLL brand, success canand should be measured in a variety of ways at work, depending onthe project or the goal. “In some cases, success is teaching othersto do something themselves,” she says. “In other cases, it'sproving that marketing contributed to winning business. At the endof the day, I measure success by a feeling. Do I feel like what Iam doing is truly making a difference to the organization and thepeople around me? Hopefully, the answer is yes.”