Leading with impact Female leader profile: Tania Moore

1. What is your role? Managing Director Gold Coast

2. What are you working on at the moment? Focusing on 2014 planning for all business lines as well as wrapping up deals for the balance of 2013.

3. How did you come to your role at CBRE? Started commercial real estate career with JLL and moved to the private sector for a few years and was approached to join the CBRE Gold Coast Office Services team in 2002 by some ex-JLL colleagues who had moved over to CBRE.

4. What was your first job? Weekend and Thursday night’s assisted centre management with marketing/promotions for Lismore Central Shopping Centre.

5. Name a business leader you admire and why?Rudi Giuliani – his passion and determination in improving the quality of life for the people of New York City not only during his initial time as mayor by having a single minded focus on “sweating the small stuff” in order to make significant improvement in reducing crime and violence but also his leadership following the 9/11 attacks in getting the city back on its feet. He also attributes his success to surrounding himself with great people who balanced out his weaknesses.

6. What is your leadership mantra? If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become aware more, you are a leader – John Quincy Adams. This quotation is very much how I try to operate each and every day and I get great satisfaction from knowing that I have some influence over people developing their full potential.

7. What is your favorite leadership/personal quote to inspire success?“Enthusiasm is one of the most powerful engines of success. When you do a thing, do it with all your might. Put your whole soul into it. Stamp it with your own personality. Be active, be energetic and faithful, and you will accomplish your objective. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." — Ralph Waldo Emerson