Annie Dean

Annie Dean is a globally recognized transformation leader and expert on the future of work. In her Chief Strategy Officer role, she is responsible for developing strategy and driving strategic initiatives across the Business Operations and Experience (BOE) segment.

BOE consists of CBRE’s Enterprise Facilities Management, Local Facilities Management and Property Management business lines and Industrious, CBRE’s wholly owned flexible workplace subsidiary. This segment produced approximately $20 billion of combined revenue, including Industrious, in 2024 and comprises CBRE’s entire 7+ billion sq. ft. global property and corporate facilities management portfolio.

In addition to her role as Chief Strategy Officer, Annie serves as a leading future-of-work expert for CBRE. She leads the CBRE x Industrious Building Experience Lab to redefine what’s possible in the buildings that power our economy, making offices, industrial and retail environments more human-focused, tech-driven and inspiring.

Annie studies emerging workplace trends and technologies across CBRE’s global operations and those of CBRE clients and uses her findings, along with her workplace expertise, to design cutting edge services and offerings.

Throughout her career, Annie has led enterprise-wide, CEO-sponsored transformations. Her experience includes transformations rooted in data, research and bringing product-build cycles into nontechnical areas of the business. Annie is an expert on “organizational AI,” how companies redesign to operate in a new era of intelligence. Before joining CBRE, she led Atlassian’s real estate and workplace experience divisions and oversaw a teamwork lab researching modern work trends, including the influence of artificial intelligence. Prior to that, she led a portfolio of future of work policies at Meta. She started her career as a commercial real estate attorney at Wall Street law firms.