Each year the James Landauer/John White Award recognizes an individual who displays integrity, competence, community, trust, and selflessness, and in doing so furthers the ideals of The Counselors of Real Estate. For 2016, the award was granted to Boston’s Kevin Phelan, co-chairman of Colliers International.

Phelan earned his bachelor’s degree from Providence College and later his MBA from Boston College. He began his career in commercial real…