Tara Osborne

As an owner's representative working as a consultant, my primary responsibility is advising the owner. I need to get that 360-degree view of the project, so in order to advise the owner, I'm working very closely with the general contractor, sometimes even their subcontractors, the design consultants, and a variety of other types of consultants. I'm working with a lot of subject matter experts to understand as much as I can about what they're doing and how it impacts what my client, the owner, is interested in. I'm considering different priorities like business objectives, cost, schedule, and all the different things that impact why you would make one decision over another. I have that information handy and different options available to say, okay, you can do this, you can do X, or you can do Y, and here's what we can expect with each decision, and allow them to make the decision. I'm not actually a decision maker - I'm just helping gather and provide that information to make the best decision that they can. I'm a lifelong learner, and this role allows me to work with engineers, contractors, and specialists across the construction and real estate adjacent field. There's always an opportunity for me to learn something new and understand its relevancy. My company's pretty small, so we're constantly talking about what we can do to make sure certain things don't happen or to make sure these things do happen. It's a constant process of growing and evolving, and that's my favorite thing - if you're not growing, you're dying.