Rutkowski also works with partnerships JLL has with a handful of colleges and has spent considerable time at diverse universities and historically black colleges and universities in working to recruit entry-level talent. It's an initiative that many commercial real estate firms have put effort into in recent years in trying to diversify an industry that historically has been lacking. According to a wide-ranging ULI study from 2021, 92 percent of firms surveyed said they have some type of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion initiative. Since going public in 2018, Cushman & Wakefield has made a big push toward recruiting from a variety of colleges and universities in order to bring more diversity to the firm but acknowledged the company still has "a long way to go."