If you were at our event last November celebrating the top 50 women in Chicago real estate, you won't want to miss our upcoming hard-hitting panel, The Real Estate Money Machine: Chicago's Capital Markets Power Brokers, Aug. 6 at 7am at the Trump International Hotel & Tower. Among our featured panelists: Prudential Real Estate Investment executive director Collete English-Dixon.

Collete co-leads the Prudential's national investment dispositions platform, and she's had her fingers on many buildings dotting the Chicago skyline. (Highlights include the acquisition of 120 N LaSalle and the development of Left Bank at Kinzie Station with Fifield.) Her accidental intro to a 35-year career at PREI (in Chicago and Atlanta): She found the company at a job fair after getting her finance degree at Notre Dame, and those early law school aspirations are now a distant memory. As a frequent mentor via CREW, Goldie Scholars, ULI and PREI's women's leadership network, she advises: It's about building a network, being visible, cultivating relationships that might lead to sponsorship and learning about all aspects of your industry. Collete and her husband (snapped in Bruges, Belgium) celebrated their 25th anniversary with a trip to Europe, and she and her 21-year-old daughter share a passion for animated films (they collect the hand-drawn cels). Hear Collete and other major players in Chicago's capital markets at The Real Estate Money Machine: Chicago's Capital Markets Power Brokers, Aug. 6 at 7am, at the Trump International Hotel and Tower. Register here!