Alison Beddard

Alison Beddard is Senior Director, Office and Investment, Cushman & Wakefield Commerce, as well as being the CREW Network President. Beddard has been committed toCREW Network and its local chapter, CREW Utah since she first joined in 2008,advocating its mission and value to the commercial real estate industry. She is utterlydedicated to the success of the organization and its more than 9,500 female and maleprofessionals within CREW's 70+ local, North American chapters.

She served as CREW Utah's 2012 President, as well as its Sponsorship Committee Chair, Membership Committee Chair, and as a Director of CREW Utah's Board for three years, liaising between CREW Network's national organization and local chapters in Phoenix, Tucson, Las Vegas, Denver, Northern Colorado, Minnesota, Omaha, St. Louis, and of course Utah. Under her leadership, the chapter's annual sponsorship and membership increased by 80 percent. 

As President, she serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of CREW Network. She deals with decision makers to discuss their vision of advancing women in  commercial real estate and how CREW Network can help them achieve that goal. She and the board of directors visit CREW’s 74 local chapters, meeting with chapter leaders to offer member support and advancement opportunities. She works with CREW members with world-class leadership training, business networking opportunities, career growth, and cutting edge industry research and in other important issues affecting women's advancement in the industry. 

Beddard began her career with Cushman & Wakefield | Commerce in 2005, having since built a profitable brokerage practice, representing regional and national companies and non-profit organizations and institutions in all aspects of commercial brokerage, including acquisitions, dispositions, build-to-suits, land acquisition and leasing and sales, closing over $73 million in transactions between 2010 and 2015. 

Beddard also serves on the Advisory Board of Zions Bank Women's Financial Group and Salt Lake City Downtown Master Plan Advisory Group as its commercial real estate liaison. She is a 2013 Honoree of Utah Business Magazine's Forty Under 40.

Ms. Beddard will present  "10 Tips for Getting your CRE Career Started," (Hosted by CREW Network) on Monday, May 22, 10:00 - 11:00 am in the Talent Development Pavilion.