Career Transitions: Becoming a Surveyor Later in Your Career with Lisa Cowie MRICS #240

Surveying careers do not always follow a linear path from school to university and into chartered practice - no two pathways are the same. 

In this week’s episode of The RICS Podcast, host Kieran Halliwell speaks with Lisa Cowie MRICS, Associate Director at FG Burnett, about her journey into commercial property via a non-traditional route. 

Their conversation explores how life experience, transferable skills and alternative pathways such as AssocRICS, apprenticeships and part-time study can support entry into the profession at any stage in life, contributing to a more diverse and resilient surveying workforce.

This episode of The RICS Podcast covers:

• Lisa’s unconventional career journey to becoming an Associate Director and MRICS commercial surveyor
• Transferable skills and non-traditional routes into the industry
• Balancing study, work and family life while pursuing professional qualifications
• Tackling skills shortages and widening access across surveying
• How supportive employers, mentors and creative initiatives can raise awareness and attract more diverse talent into the built environment

Lisa Cowie

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-cowie-a417b3372/

Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors:

https://www.rics.org/uk/

RICS Podcast Page

https://www.rics.org/podcast/

Kieran Halliwell

https://www.linkedin.com/in/kdhalliwell/