Britnie Turner Keane, CEO of Aerial development group, visionary, philantropist and entrepreneur

Описание: Britnie founded Aerial in 2009 at the age of 21 with the mission of elevating people and places. Britnie has since formed multiple companies under the Aerial brand, all accelerating the mission by empowering people, sustaining the planet and utilizing capitalism as a force for good. Through the success of her companies, Britnie is resetting the standard of what is possible for women and young people across the globe and has won several national and international awards for speed of growth, innovation and trajectory. Aerial’s commitment to a triple bottom line approach is proving that conscious business is not only viable but the way of the future.
Britnie was born in North Augusta, South Carolina as the second oldest of Bill and Debbie Turner’s six children. She graduated from North Augusta High School in 2006. Throughout high school she managed to work five jobs simultaneously to earn enough to support herself and her missions. When she wasn’t working, she was training in bodybuilding and learning everything she could about space. On the weekends, she would bring her friends together to fix up homes for the elderly and do the yard work they couldn’t do themselves or afford to pay someone else to do. Britnie and her friends became known as the “BUMS” (Bringing U My Savior), a play on words to show that young people, contrary to what some might say, weren’t all lazy or self-centered.
During one of her leadership classes, she heard a man speak about how you can cash flow your home if the money you make from renting out rooms is more than your mortgage payment. She was immediately inspired by the idea and saw it as a way to fund her mission trips without asking others for money. So, she bought her first house when she was 18…during the 2007 recession. She was working at Cheesecake Factory at the time and spent every free moment in the kitchen reading any real estate and investment books she could get her hands on. After moving to Nashville in 2009, she worked without pay for 9 months for a few real estate investors, just to learn the business, sometimes while living out of her car. Soon after, she started renovating houses on her own. Wearing multiple hats as a real estate agent, rehabber, and rental portfolio manager her real estate career took off, quickly growing into a multi-million dollar business.
In 2009, Britnie founded Aerial Development Group, a Nashville, TN-based residential and commercial development company that revitalizes urban neighborhoods through renovation and infill. Employing a social enterprise business model, Aerial Development Group works to elevate people and places. Through its work Aerial is focused on mindfully revitalizing the urban core and also donates a percentage of its profits to support non-profit organizations in its local community and sponsors an orphan in Kenya for every home that is sold in the name of the home buyer.
Aerial Development Group is resetting the standard for how development takes place and works to prove the business case for addressing social needs through its projects. They collaborate with neighbors and community leaders to make their Nashville neighborhoods healthier, safer, and stronger as well as bring to life projects that allow people to connect with their best self and nature. They improve and revitalize those neighborhoods with innovative projects such as the First Health and Wellness Community in Nashville and Artist Housing, they incorporate tree planting programs, trash cleanups, sustainable features, new sidewalks, and connections to parks and greenways to give residents and the surrounding community access to a healthier life.
Britnie learned that business can be used as a transformative vehicle to change lives through the built environment. That insight led her to change the business model from simply building houses to strategically transforming neighborhoods into places people want to live in and empowering the residents already living there. Today, Aerial Development Group, a for-profit socially conscious company, is honing this model in urban areas of Nashville so they can apply it in other countries in the future to bring about social change.
Britnie also founded G-FORCE Mastermind, an exclusive community of entrepreneurs who have dedicated their lives, businesses, and resources to being a force for good in the world.