Avison Young strengthens Canada's Consulting offering by expanding its professional services team.

Avison Young announces three new additions to expand its Consulting expertise and market reach across the Canadian private and public sector.

Maria Tran, BArchSc, MBA, LEED AP – As Associate Director, Real Estate Consulting, Maria brings over 12 years of experience spanning architectural design, enterprise strategy, real estate transactions, project management, workplace transformation and real estate advisory services. Her broad experience working with financial institutions, professional services firms and government and institutional organizations has allowed Maria to help clients solve complex mandates and affect lasting change.

Jasmine Prachter, ARIDO, IDC, LEED AP, PROSCI – As Manager, Workplace Consulting, Jasmine brings 25 years of experience in corporate interior design and is highly skilled at managing the integration of disciplines and initiatives to enable high operational improvement strategies for a vast array of organizations. Her experience includes analyzing corporate client business needs and leveraging trends to shape appropriate strategies and solutions.

Nicole Collard, MBA, PROSCI – As Manager, Workplace Change Management, Nicole brings over 20 years of experience in various professional disciplines, including communications, public relations and change management. Nicole is dedicated to stakeholder engagement at every step of project implementation and is focused on delivering streamlined business processes that result in tangible value and cost savings.

“Through growing our distinct service offerings, we are able to deliver on increasingly complex business imperatives that our occupier, owner and investor clients have as they evaluate real estate for their service needs and identify their capital investment requirements,” says Sheila Botting, Principal and President, Americas Professional Services.

The additions of Maria, Jasmine and Nicole will further bolster the expansion of real estate and workplace consulting services internationally – delivering thoughtful, creative solutions that help our clients make strategic and critical real estate decisions from strategy through to implementation.