Episode 26 - Mentoring Female Leaders in Real Estate

Exclusive Links Podcast,  Property Talk from Louise’s Lounge, is all about keeping our audience in touch with current topics, sharing relevant and accurate information and introducing interesting guests and industry professionals. 

Exclusive Links has always worked closely with the regions leading property portal Property Finder and through the years we have supported their vision of a better industry. At the end of 2022, owners of Exclusive Links Louise Heatley and Zarah Evans took home a win in the Women in Leadership category at the Property Finder Awards.  Therefore it comes as no surprise, that Louise was asked by Sevgi and Property Finder to get on board with their SheForShe mentorship program aimed at creating the next generation of female leaders in the industry. 

Today we go live with Episode 26 of our Podcast  “Mentoring Female Leaders in Real Estate” where Louise welcomes the Chief Marketing Officer at Property Finder, Sevgi Gur.  These two ladies have been spending quite a bit of time together since International Womens Day on 8th March.  Sevgi is the driver behind the first-ever female mentorship initiative launched by Property Finder to support more female leaders in the real estate industry. Louise is one of the female titans chosen to lead this 6 months program where she will share her insights and perspectives and coach aspiring female stars. Sevgi joined Property Finder 2 years ago and it soon became evident that the real estate industry in the UAE, especially at a senior level, is very male-dominant. She was also meeting more and more female leaders who were ‘shaping and shaking’ the industry. Property Finder supported her idea of making the industry better through diversity and introduced this program, SheForShe.  

• Did you know that women make up 60% of the real estate industry workforce in Dubai? But they account for only 3% of its leadership.
• Louise asks Sevgi the million-dollar question - why is there a minority in female leadership? 
• So what did the male real estate leaders in Dubai think of this initiative?  Will Property Finder be launching a HeForHe program in the future?
• What support will be provided by Property Finder and the mentors as aspiring female leaders are chosen to grow and develop through this program? 
• Real Estate in general is a male dominant industry and perhaps even more in the UAE.  Why is that? 

Thank you Sevgi for your time today and for sharing with us more about your ideas behind the initiative SheForShe.  We wish you all the success with the program and also all the female applicants looking to grow as leaders in the UAE real estate industry.   

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