Women occupy more C-suite offices at Denver commercial real estate firms than they have in decades past, and many of them credit their mentors, tenacity and sense of urgency for their rise.

Overall, women hold about 10% of executive-level positions at American commercial real estate companies and about one-quarter of senior leadership roles, according to research from the CREW Network. But, some of Denver’s top women executives said during Bisnow’s Denver Women Leading Real Estate event at Dairy Block’s Venture X coworking space on July 27 that there is still a lot of work to be done.