An authority on the integration of corporate real estate planning with core business strategy, Martha O’Mara, PhD, heads Colliers’ Corporate Solutions service line in an executive leadership role as Executive Managing Director, Head of Consulting, Corporate Solutions | Americas. In this role, Martha leads client advisory services in the disciplines of management consulting, portfolio optimization and location strategy.

Prior to joining Colliers, Martha co-founded Corporate Portfolio Analytics (CPA), where she  supported the strategy development for nearly two billion square feet of corporate occupancy, including AT&T, Bank of America, Verizon, American Express, GE, and the US government, typically in multi-year engagements.

A member of the Alumni Advisory Board for the Real Estate Academic Initiative at Harvard University and a Counselor of Real Estate, Martha lectures widely, and teaches executives at the Center for Real Estate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

From 1989 to 1998, she served as a professor at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design, and taught real estate finance, location strategy, research methods and urban development. She subsequently helped develop the school's Advancement Management Development Program for real estate executives. 

Martha holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior jointly awarded by the Harvard Business School and Harvard’s Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. She also has an MA and an MBA from Harvard University and earned a BA from the University of California, Irvine.