RE/MAX Hallmark Realty
Aurora, ON
Barbara Brindle has assumed various roles during her 30 years in real estate – from Hall of Fame Realtor to managing partner and VP of career development for RE/MAX Hallmark Realty – and she has excelled in all of them. But while Brindle is one of the most accomplished and respected women working in Canadian real estate today, that respect was not always forthcoming. As a young agent, Brindle found that her older male counterparts rarely took her seriously. “I had to increase my assertiveness to aggression at times to establish that I was a force to be reckoned with and not about to back down to a bully,” she says.
Brindle takes pride in the fact that her best year in real estate came when she was a single mother. “I learned the difference between important and urgent during those years,” she says, “which has been invaluable now that I am in a leadership position.”
