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Entrepreneurial Spirit Award

An entrepreneur is one who renews society and invigorates industry by seeking out and capitalizing on opportunities. The Entrepreneurial Spirit Award honors someone who has achieved a career success or milestone as the result of an exceptional entrepreneurial spirit. They have provided services, developed products, or improved practices by innovatively organizing, developing, or deploying available resources, either within their own company or as part of a larger organization. This person is often a risk taker and is willing to step outside the box to create something new or different.

NOMINATIONS FOR THIS CATEGORY NEED ONLY INCLUDE THE NAME OF THE INDIVIDUAL AND A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE ACHIEVEMENT TO BE CONSIDERED.  THE AWARD COMMITTEE WILL CONTACT THE NOMINEE TO REQUEST A FORMAL SUBMISSION FOR CONSIDERATION.

Criteria for the Entrepreneurial Spirit Award may include:

  • starting a new business enterprise or significantly expanding the business reach of current employer;

  • making a significant and successful career change into an emerging field or a new area of expertise or focus in the real estate industry, perhaps due to a need to significantly change in career path due to changes in the economy;

  • making contributions that foster commercial vitality within the industry, or capitalizing on new or changing opportunities in innovative ways;

  • creating new tools and technologies, new products, financing tools, or business practices, or developing creative business strategies or structures; and

  • length of time the nominee has been in the real estate industry.

The Entrepreneurial Spirit Award need only be awarded in years when the caliber of the nominations warrants it.  

Past Recipients:

Amy McCook and Ginger Simoens (2024), DaLila Goodridge (2023), Nikki Carolan (2022), Gina LeMaster Brown (2020), Michelle Lerner-Konopatski (2019), Susan Godorov (2018), Chiara Clatterbuck (2017), Sarah Kelly (2016), Betty Mason (2015), Jennifer Ramski (2014), Laura Barbero-Buffa (2013)