010 // Taidgh McClory // The Power of a Growth Mindset

Welcome to Full Circle with Garland!

On Episode 010, Garland interviews Taidgh McClory, the Director of Social Impact & Inclusion for MP Boston and Founder of T.H. McClory, LLC, a social impact enterprise. 

Highlights of Episode 010:

• Growing up Taidgh - 01:59
• Caribbean influence - 7:20
• Identity journey through the school years - 8:31
• History & art - 10:41
• Lessons learned in advertising - 13:46
• Pivoting into commercial real estate - 16:50
• Re-evaluating what really matters 25:55
• DEI work in 2020 - 32:36
• Awakening books of 2020 - 37:09
• What’s your next for Taidgh - 43:54
• Inclusion in my industry looks like 46:55
• Life coming full circle - 48:15
• Garland’s post interview thoughts - 52:03

About Taidgh:
Taidgh McClory is a senior-level commercial real estate executive whose professional focus has turned to social impact. A former Managing Director/Partner at CBRE/New England, Taidgh actively promotes diversity and inclusion through his civic engagement and his business, T.H. McClory, LLC, a social impact enterprise founded in 2019 and dedicated to devising and implementing diversity & inclusion strategies for the CRE industry.

Mr. McClory’s career in commercial real estate and advertising has spanned over 20 years and includes expertise in strategic planning, commercial real estate brokerage, marketing, brand planning, market research, and economic development. He most recently served as Managing Director/Partner at CBRE/New England, where he led sales management, business development and civic engagement across the New England region.

A civic leader and champion of diversity & inclusion, Mr. McClory is a member of Real Estate Executive Council (REEC), a leading professional trade association formed to promote the interests of minority executives in the commercial real estate industry. In addition to REEC, Mr. McClory serves on a handful of boards and committees focused on diversity/equity/inclusion, social impact, commercial real estate, economic development, education, and philanthropy.

• Executive Council of Diversity & Inclusion - The Partnership Inc.
• Board of Director - MassEcon Alliance
• Advisory Board - African American Real Estate Professionals (NE Chapter)
• Co-Chair - NAIOP Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Forum (MA Chapter)
• Investment Committee - Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund
• Posse Foundation Career Coach

Mr. McClory graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in History and Studio Art. In his local community on the North Shore, Mr. McClory serves as a member of the Cummings Foundation Grant Selection Committee, Board of Trustees for St. John’s Preparatory School and a lector at St. Maria Goretti Parish in Lynnfield where he resides with his wife and three children.

Connect with Taidgh

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taidghmcclory/

Books mentioned on this episode:

• White Fragility  by Robin DiAngelo
• Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
• The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein
• Caste by Isabel Wilkerson
• Black Dignity in a World Made For Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown
• So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
• Alchemist by Paulo Cohelo

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