After leaving her first brokerage, Alicia Shepherd became the commercial director at KW Santa Monica in California. A mom of four (including triplets born in 2020), Shepherd began devoting her time to making the commercial industry a welcome space for all. “I was with an ownership group that let me play in really rowdy ways and would buy in on my mission to transform the industry and to make a bigger table, to invite more diversity, invite more opportunity, not just for women, not just for moms, but for different ethnic backgrounds, different age groups,” she says. Shepherd’s next step was writing the curriculum for a training course for commercial real estate. She started by teaching the course at her market centers in California and now, in her new role, wants to expand that training to all of KW Commercial, a possibility she credits to KW’s commitment to culture.