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Kameshia Freeman

Senior Vice President, Government and Education at JLL
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Kameshia Freeman is a Senior Vice President with JLL's Government and Education group. She guides federal, state, and local government agencies, as well as colleges, universities, and K-12 educational institutions, in managing and supporting their organizations while utilizing JLL’s services. The solutions she connects them with expand their technology capabilities, manage outsourcing facilities, guide portfolio strategy, and further the clean energy and infrastructure mission. She also is responsible for growing existing and establishing new services with government agencies by leveraging a management executive and account-level network nationally and solving complex challenges creatively and effectively.

She is an interdisciplinary executive leader with 15+ years of experience in client engagement and partnership building. As a trusted and respected advisor, she works on behalf of public sector agencies to steer clients in discovering their service needs across the commercial real estate sector. Moreover, she is a universalist with a professional background that reflects a blend of experience spanning real estate leasing, team training, talent development, and executive and national account management.

Ms. Freeman’s engaging and collaborative spirit enables her to build authentic partnerships with business and government leaders. She leverages this extensive network to create pathways for clients to solve multifaceted problems and drive their business vision.

Ms. Freeman graduated, cum laude, from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) in 2000, receiving a B.A. in Agricultural Economics. In 2003, she received her Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) with a concentration in Marketing from Dallas Baptist University. In addition, she successfully completed one of GSA’s most highly coveted and competitive leadership programs, Advanced Leadership Development Program in 2008.

She is the Membership Chair for the Dallas chapter of CREW, an organization that engages with and creates awareness for women in the commercial real estate space. As a co-founder and vice president of the Dallas chapter of African American Real Estate Professionals, she is designing a platform that supports the professional development of African Americans in commercial real estate.

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  • “To attract and retain top talent, employers must prioritize employees’ locational flexibility needs, making a hybrid work model crucial,” Freeman said.

  • "From a federal perspective, if we’re looking at some of the constraints that the facilities managers have, a lot evolves around the remote work or the hybrid working environment and getting their staff back into the office. One of them is implementing quality control procedures post-pandemic. They don’t have that front-line interaction with the customers as they did pre-pandemic. They have to be very meticulous with how they’re communicating with their client. "

  • "For those leases, if agencies decide to give back space, the GSA is still responsible for the rental payments. GSA can buy out the leases, but what is the motivation for the landlord to do that?" said Kameshia Freeman, a senior vice president on JLL's government and education team who worked at the GSA for 15 years.

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