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CBRE appoints Jan Mühlfeit as Advisory Board Member

CBRE, the world leader in the commercial real estate services sector, has appointed Jan Mühlfeit as an Advisory Board Member. The newly appointed Advisory Board Member Jan Mühlfeit will bring to CBRE experience from his 22 year career at Microsoft, where he was Chairman of Europe. His CBRE role will be to advise the management board on how to manage the growth of their business from his current role as global strategist, coach and mentor.

Richard Curran, Managing Director at CBRE, says:

„Our real estate business has changed dramatically over the past seven years through both organic growth and acquisitions.  We currently have 350 employees in the Czech Republic who manage nearly 75 commercial premises with a total area of nearly 1,4 mil. sq. m. CBRE is the market leader in real estate consultancy and the goal of the Board is not only to maintain CBRE‘s position as the market leader but also to move CBRE to be amongst the best advisory companies in any sector, not just real estate.  I am very pleased that Jan Mühlfeit accepted our offer to be an Advisory Board Member to help unlock the human potential of our people and continue to move our company forward. ”

Jan Mühlfeit, ret. Chairman Europe Microsoft Corporation, Global strategist, coach, author, says:

“It is my great pleasure to join CBRE as Advisory Board Member. I am very pleased that I will be able to share long experience from global economy with CBRE team, but I am also looking forward to learn more about such traditional and very important business as real estate is.”

Jan Mühlfeit is a global strategist, executive coach and author of bestselling business book The Positive Leader (Pearson, Oct 2016, Jan Mühlfeit & Melina Costi). His personal mission is “helping individuals, organizations and countries around the world to unlock their human potential”. Jan has a proven track record in building and leading successful teams, acquired through an extensive 22-­year career at Microsoft Corporation where he served in various executive positions. His last role with the high-tech giant was as Chairman Europe (2007–2014). Harnessing his in-depth knowledge and expertise, Jan has created a set of unique seminars – “Unlock Human Potential” and “Unlock Your Team’s Potential”. Jan teaches his courses on a worldwide scale and has worked with many prominent S&P 500 companies. Jan coaches high-level executives, Olympic games winners and artists from different countries and continents. Jan has been giving his lessons at Harvard, MIT, INSEAD, Cambridge, Imperial College, ESMT, Trinity College. and many other universities. With his colleague Katerina Novotna he is also taking care of young generation teaching internationally successful seminar “Unlock Children Potential”.