our Chief Diversity Officer , our General Council , procurement , our real estate teams .
And I ' ve had the opportunity to partner with them . I truly do feel it ' s a partnership . Everyone wants to be successful and , further , our employees are passionate about the topic . And I ' m really excited to just start to tap into that passion a little bit more because we really haven ' t unleashed the power and the excitement across the organisation .
I worry that we ' re going to spend a disproportionate amount of time on trying to measure and get the perfect data and that ' s going to shift resources from the actual doing . So how do we take a balanced approach , satisfy the regulatory obligations , but don ' t let it paralyse us from actually continuing to reduce our footprint in the buildings that we operate ?
Q . DOES BEING CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD ’ S FIRST CSO MAKE YOU FEEL DAUNTED , EXCITED – OR BOTH ?
» I would say for me , since I ' ve been here for a couple of years , I ' m really excited about the role . We have great commitments from our leadership team across the globe . I have great partners across many of our functions – from
Q . HOW WELL PLACED IS THE REAL ESTATE SERVICES INDUSTRY TO EMBED SUSTAINABILITY INTO ITS WORK ? AND WHAT CAN YOU DO , PRACTICALLY , TO AFFECT THE BEHAVIOUR OF PEOPLE YOU DEAL WITH ?
» We ' re fortunate on the client side that they look to us to be their sustainability partner . So for most of our largest clients , we have either dedicated sustainability professionals or we ' re delivering projects for them . So there ' s really this mutual collaboration . I was just on the phone two days ago with one of our large financial services clients and it was all about recognising this connection between our organisations and how it all comes together . So , while some of those calls can just be focused on how we all get each other better data , this conversation was really focused on collaboration .
It ' s really exciting that , particularly in real estate , we ' ve gotten over that hurdle and all recognise that we have to work together . So whether it ' s your design and
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