About the Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI)

The ULI Chicago Women’s Leadership Initiative (WLI) was launched in 2015 to raise the visibility and number of women leaders in ULI and the real estate industry.  Chicago’s WLI initiative shares the four primary goals of ULI’s national WLI program to:

• Promote the advancement of women
• Increase the number of women who serve in leadership positions
• Increase the visibility of women leaders
• Increase the number of women who are active ULI Full members

Support the Women’s Leadership Initiative

• Promote a female colleague into a lead position on a high-profile project or for participation and leadership roles in professional organizations and boards
• Promote speaking and publishing opportunities
• Include a female colleague in formal and informal relationship-building events
• Coach a mid-level protégée as she takes on new roles and builds relationships

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Previous WLI Events

• WLI Concludes “Equity in Real Estate” series with Ciere Boatright and Morgan Malone
• WLI Features WBEZ’s Natalie Moore in Second Session of “Equity In Real Estate”
• WLI Launches “Equity in Real Estate” Series
• WLI Breakthrough Series Features The Women of The Old Post Office
• “Game Changers” – Women Who Have Impacted the Built Environment
• WLI Breakthrough Series with Molly Meyer
• WLI Breakthrough Series with Vicki Noonan
• “An Evening with Industry Titans”
• WLI Breakthrough Series with Laura Hines
• YL Leadership Series with Randy Fifield
• “A Conversation with Penny Pritzker”
• “Leadership in Real Estate”

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WLI Updates

• ULI Chicago Members Awarded National Scholarships
• WLI Continues to Increase Visibility of Women Leaders in the Industry