As a senior associate with the Arizona Retail Services team with Colliers, Kristina works with John (JK) Jackson who collectively specialize in the sale and leasing of retail properties, representing landlords, tenants, and investors. As a life-long resident in the valley, Kristina easily identifies key tenants for shopping centers and development projects by working directly with landlords and developers, managing projects from negotiation, marketing, and full-completion phases.

With her strong organizational skills, ease of communication style, notable charisma, and high level of ethical values, Kristina excels at building strong, trusted client relationships in business development and through strategic planning. She has a proven track record of consistently achieving results through her market knowledge and tenacious drive to go above and beyond for her clients.

Colleagues who work with Kristina describe her as an energetic, hardworking broker who livens up the office, lifts the spirits of those around her, and brings an outstanding optimism that never goes unnoticed. She leads by example both in and out of the office. She has a knack for bringing out the best in everyone and approaches each individual person with the utmost empathy and compassion.

Prior to Colliers, Kristina served as senior associate for Strategic Retail Group, which was acquired by Avison Young in 2019. In her time there, she provided highly effective, integrative client service and support and fostered a proactive, meaningful approach to business relationships.

Kristina developed her resiliency as she worked her way up from associate to senior associate in a short amount of time by exhibiting excellent collaborative and teamworking skills, immersed herself in commercial real estate research, compiling data and relating it to current deals in the market. With her ability to multitask in a fast-paced environment, she learned to handle all aspects of transaction management from lead generation to negotiation and through deal closings.

Sheila Merrell is the senior client services specialist for retail services with Colliers in Arizona. She provides client services, marketing and administrative support for several brokers, who specialize in the sale and leasing of retail properties, representing landlords, tenants and investors.

Sheila manages marketing, administrative, listing, transaction and due diligence services on behalf of the brokers and their clients. Leveraging her industry experience and skillset, Sheila designs and executes best-in-class print and digital marketing collateral and campaigns tailored to each property and client. She prepares comprehensive tour books and coordinates special events, including open houses and receptions.

Working in partnership with the brokers, Sheila develops strategies, pitches and proposals to help win new business.

Her ability to multi-task in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment, coupled with strong organizational, interpersonal and communication skills, make her a valuable member of retail services. Sheila brings a high level of proficiency and skills in Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign and Photoshop), digital marketing, Microsoft Office and CoStar research to her role.

Colleagues describe Sheila as patient, friendly and enthusiastic. She thrives in a team atmosphere, providing valuable input, both verbally and through actions, to help drive the success of her team.

Sheila is experienced in marketing and project and office management for commercial and residential real estate, as well as start-up companies.

Previously, Sheila was director of business operations for OneQor Technologies, Inc. She assisted in start-up operations to establish the office, define HR functions, oversee facilities, support the controller and maintain effective client communications. Focusing on cost savings and the needs of a start-up, Sheila researched and selected vendors for supplies and equipment. She assisted in onboarding new employees and developing an employee handbook.

Sheila served as project coordinator for capital markets and finance at JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle). She provided support to financial managers to ensure timely closings for property sales. She also managed and maintained multiple databases for the capital markets team.

As a senior marketing assistant at Cushman & Wakefield, Sheila coordinated marketing activities for more than 50 property listings. She worked on steps to improve the accuracy of property listings on CoStar and implemented processes to streamline and improve the team’s productivity and budgets.

Sheila previously served as a realtor and client relations manager for Myriad Real Estate Group. She supervised transactions, prepared and executed contracts, and facilitated communications among all parties during the contract and transaction process.