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Ronan Kearney makes businesses work.

Forged by pressure.

Across two decades, Ronan has led at some of the country’s top organizations, engineering turnarounds and building a national operating platform from the ground up.

Raised on standards.

His career spans hospitality and entertainment, commercial and retail, and luxury residential, from institutional portfolios to boutique properties. Different industries. Familiar challenges. He has led some of the most prominent properties in the country, including properties on Manhattan’s Billionaires’ Row. Before the residential portfolios, Ronan ran theatres and worked across arenas and live events. That experience still informs how he leads people, sets standards, and prepares an operation to perform.

Defined by results.

Precise with data. Fluent with people. Ronan turns friction into alignment and indecision into action. He builds environments where talented people do their best work.

Ronan is a senior executive in leadership, management, and operations. Some build organizations. Others revitalize them. Ronan does both.

Great organizations are teams built on clarity, accountability, and a leader who tells the truth, especially when it’s uncomfortable.

The industry changes. The leadership it demands doesn’t. Ronan goes where the challenge is.

A natural learner, Ronan is drawn to new cultures, ideas, and perspectives that stretch how he thinks.

MBA, Binghamton University
NYS Licensed Real Estate Broker
New York Athletic Club
Urban Land Institute NEXT
Real Estate Board of New York
Irish Business Organization of New York

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Work

Whether it’s a sponsor approaching an opening, a broker whose building has to live up to what was sold, a board that has lost consensus, or an investor with an exposed asset, Ronan is the call.

The Work

Ronan advises principals, family offices, boards, and founders at pivotal moments of transition, crisis, or rapid growth, and partners with owners who want their standard held, year after year.

He has built a national operating platform, opened luxury communities across five states, and led turnarounds under the most demanding conditions.

Through Greymont, the firm he founded, Ronan brings that experience to real estate advisory and operating assignments.

1. Build the organization
before the doors open.
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Ronan built the operating organization for a national developer’s ambitious residential pipeline and led opening readiness across several states.

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2. An operation the size
of a small city.
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At a rental community the size of a small city, Ronan led an organization of more than 400 people, bringing people, service, and financial discipline together.

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3. Renovating around
the residents.
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Ronan directed phased renovations across two residential towers and developed the renovation program for a third building. The work encompassed hundreds of apartments, common areas, and amenities while all three buildings remained occupied.

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Speaking

Ronan speaks at executive summits, leadership forums, and private gatherings about what two decades of leading teams and organizations have taught him. He brings candor, humor, and hard-won perspective to every stage.

Contact

Great leadership starts with a conversation.

Ronan works with principals, family offices, and boards; with developers, sponsors, and the brokers and sales teams who bring their buildings to market; and with founders and executives, on a single assignment or over the long term.

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