Director of Commercial Development & Services, Commercial & Global Services Group
National Association of REALTORS®
Chicago, IL

Jean works with REALTOR® associations to strengthen commercial membership value and communicate benefits and resources for the commercial member as well as promote NAR’s advocacy efforts on behalf of the commercial real estate industry.

In her newly promoted role, Jean leads the commercial staff team at NAR, with overall responsibilities for the commercial communications, marketing, membership development, conference programming, and governance. Since coming to NAR 6 years ago, Jean was the primary voice for NAR’s commercial social media efforts, building a strong and engaged following on Twitter, while becoming one of the most authoritative voices for commercial real estate in this social network.

She previously spent more than 15 years leading membership development initiatives for the YMCA organization in Connecticut, Boston, Dallas, and San Diego.

Jean lives in Chicago, enjoys running and has made a personal commitment to complete 26 races in 2013 to honor the victims of the Sandy Hook, CT school tragedy – and in addition, run the 2013 NYC Marathon while raising money for a Newtown charity.