One had no experience in real estate at all. The other had property in her blood. On the face of it, the path to the top for two of the first women ever to run major real estate companies in the UK could not have been more different. But their stories say a lot about what it takes for anyone to succeed in business — and what real estate can do to change the fact that, a quarter of a century later, the sector is not much better when it comes to diversity among its leadership. 
Lorraine Baldry took over as the managing director of the £4B property division of the Prudential in January 1993 after just three years in the real estate industry. Mickola Wilson took over as MD at Guardian Royal Exchange, a fellow…  Read the full story here. | 
