CHICAGO-Angela Roseboro has been at her job aschief diversity officer for Jones Lang LaSalle forabout a year and a half, coming from a similar job at GeneralElectric subsidiaries. Having come from the corporate side, shetells GlobeSt.com that she still sometimes can’t get over how thecommercial real estate industry is still mostly dominated by peopleof a certain color, and a certain sex.
It’s not like it’s a secret – go to any industry conference andyou’re bound to see most people attending look like each other.Roseboro, who launched JLL’s first internal Women’s Forum lastmonth, says she’s working to add more women and people of colorinto the industry, and that there’s plenty of good business reasonsto do so.
GlobeSt.com: Why do you think minorities stillhaven’t assimilated more into commercial realestate?
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