After beginning my career in hotel management and personnel management, I soon realised that I had a passion for property. I signed up with a well-respected estate agency and became one of the realtor’s top agents. In 1991, I started up Adrienne Hersch Properties, which literally was a one-man show from my home. Today I head up a thriving business with agents across northern Johannesburg and eastern Pretoria..I have had to learn the hard way, with no one to teach me. I call it the ‘university of life’, where you learn something new each and every day. This is a dynamic and exciting profession, with no constants and significant highs and lows.” I built my business on a foundation of Aspiration, Motivation, Inspiration and Determination and these qualities are what I look for in all our agents. Part of our success is that I am still very involved with the selling and marketing of key properties and I train my agents personally, believing in 100% hands-on basis during their sales negotiations.” “The company has a definitive hallmark which people who know us describe as savvy, street smart, passionate and single-minded. It is this combination of experience, hard work and expertise that has seen the company evolve from start-up to a success story because we are serious about making realty a service-driven industry.” “As a marketing and sales-driven organisation, we understand that it is only through building relationships and delivering on people’s dreams that we can continue being successful. We know the truism in Gary Player’s adage: ‘The harder you work, the luckier you get.”