One Leeds

New Office Working Groups

Aligned to JLL’s key pillars, our aim is to create small, focused groups to drive cross office strategy. These groups include:

People

Goal: Consider the growth and wellbeing of our people including training and development, graduates, and apprentices, communications, and feedback.

Chair: Hannah Partington

Members:

• Aileen Duffey, Lease Advisory

• Louise Scott, Bewonder*

• David Stanford, PAM

• Brad Harris, Residential

Clients

Goal: Encourage office wide collaboration to improve sharing of intel on existing clients and identify new target clients.

Chair: Mathew Atkinson, Capital Markets

Members:

• Tony Stott, Building Surveying

• James Mohammed, Residential

• Jordan Kenefick, Valuation

• Matthew Ogden, Bewonder*

Sustainability

Goal: Articulate the sustainability skillsets and services available in our office, identify areas of growth and opportunity and to encourage a coordinated approach to winning work in this area.

Chair: Stephanie Curtin, Upstream

Members:

• Eleanor Smith, Capital Markets

• Mike Linnane, Building Consultancy

• Anna Marland, Valuation

• Richard Thornton, Office Agency

Occupiers

Goal: Coordinate a Leeds office approach to growing our occupier work.

Chair: Lee Conroy, Lease Advisory

Members:

• Nick Gibby, Office Agency

• Harry Fullerton, Industrial Agency

• Tom Phillips, Building Consultancy

• Ross Haywood, Rating

How can I be involved?

We’ll be sharing updates from each group within our next newsletter. If you have any feedback or ideas for these groups, we want to hear from you, please don’t hesitate to contact the group chair.

You can also be involved via our Next Gen, DEI and Social & Charity committees, they are always open to ideas, feedback, and new members, so please do reach out to any of the committee members should you wish to join.

Next Gen

Overseen by James Mohammed and Ross Haywood

Led by Eleanor Smith, Brad Harris, and Harry Fullerton

Next Gen aims to encourage communication, collaboration, and cross-selling between the levels of Associate Director to Graduates & Apprentices, whilst also engaging in other areas of business development such as client targeting initiatives. At each meeting, at least one representative from each team comes armed with current jobs and target clients.

The next meeting will be held on 8th February, where an anonymous Q&A has been arranged with Tom McWilliams. Please submit any questions to Eleanor prior to the meeting.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Committee

Overseen by Sally Sookia

Members include Mike Linnane, Ravinder Heer, Anna Marland, Anam Abdullah, Thomas Gibson & Sherida Ampoma.

The DEI committee meet monthly to help champion DEI initiatives for our office and raise awareness of available resources and activities taking place. This year we will be holding quarterly education sessions on different DEI topics, celebrating a variety of cultural and religious festivals, and sharing resources and updates on JLL DEI initiatives.

Social & Charity Committee

Overseen by Louise Scott and Jordan Kenefick

Members include Sue Oliver, Eleanor Smith, Emma Boulter, Lydia Martin, Karen Moore, Aileen Duffy, Christabelle Day, Molly Orviss, Holly Pickard.

Your social and charity committee are responsible for coordinating social activities and charitable campaigns that everyone is welcome to partake in.

They meet every six weeks to review the calendar of events. You will already have some placeholders in the diary for 2023, and the committee are busy preparing events for the rest of the year, so look out for future diary invites.