But in his six years at the firm, he鈥檚 worn a variety of hats. 鈥淚鈥檝e worked in maintenance, as an assistant property manager, and as a property manager,鈥� he says. 鈥淚鈥檝e worked in accounting and as a receptionist. I鈥檝e done everything from snow removal to software development.鈥�
The 27-year-old, who has just completed his MBA, is an 乐竞体育赛事直播 Next Gen CPM Leader. He credits 乐竞体育赛事直播 for its focus on education and its ability to 鈥渆volve as the industry evolves.鈥澛�
When asked to define that evolution, he echoes Blanton鈥檚 view of the broader profession:聽
鈥淭here are the frontline people, the technical people and the property managers everyone sees,鈥� he says. 鈥淏ut then there are the teams behind them, the other disciplines making not just the company, but the entire industry run.鈥� 乐竞体育赛事直播鈥檚 broad-based focus, in its educational tracks and its promotion of younger professionals with all sorts of backgrounds and interest areas, feeds that evolution. 鈥淚t鈥檚 amazing to see.鈥�
Holland came to Sunrise from a different path鈥揳s is the case with many of the young professionals featured in this series. He studied Physics at the State University of New York at Albany and says, 鈥淚 loved it鈥� (though he confesses he wasn鈥檛 a fan of the classwork). He was asked to join Sunrise by his dad, President and Founder Jesse Holland, CPM庐, to 鈥渉elp make the company run a little more efficiently.鈥�
No matter the job at hand, 鈥淢y strength is in problem solving and growing efficiencies,鈥� a passion that fits nicely in his current IT role. Wisely, as both the son of the founder and a younger member of the team, 鈥淵ou can鈥檛 just walk in right out of college and tell people what to do.鈥澛�
Thankfully, he understands the value of positive connections. 鈥淭his industry is all about relationships,鈥� he says.聽
While the problem-solving challenges of IT are Holland鈥檚 current focus, 鈥淚t doesn鈥檛 mean forever,鈥� he says, 鈥渁nd my role tends to change as the company moves.鈥�
As it has for the past six years. And whether it鈥檚 snow removal or computer programming, every new challenge yields two outcomes. It鈥檚 true for Holland, and it鈥檚 also true of other young professionals growing within the industry. The first outcome, obviously, is to expand a resume, grow talent, and add capabilities to one鈥檚 skill set. The second is to underscore once more the ever-broadening definition of what it means to be a property manager.聽
Where will Adam Holland be in 10 years? He answers the question not so much by title as much as by function: 鈥淚 see myself leading that charge of making property management more flexible and adaptable to the change that鈥檚 going on around us, and making up-and-coming employees more comfortable with their chosen profession.鈥�