Fidelity National Financial Women in CREW

Fidelity National Financial, Inc., a FORTUNE 500^® Company, is a leading provider of title insurance and transaction services to the real estate and mortgage industries. FNF is the nation’s largest title insurance company through its title insurance underwriters—Fidelity National Title, Chicago Title, Commonwealth Land Title, Alamo Title, and National Title of New York—that collectively issue more title insurance policies than any other title company in the United States.

Our National Commercial Services (NCS) operations are strategically located in major metropolitan areas throughout the U.S. and serve as a single point of contact to expedite commercial transactions on a local and nationwide level, from simple to complex multi-state transactions, and everything in between. 

FNF is honored to support CREW and all the work this organization does to promote the advancement of women within commercial real estate. Fidelity National Financial is a leading provider of title insurance and transaction services to the commercial real estate industry and we work hard every day to meet the needs of our commercial clients. This work has paid off and FNF is consistently recognized as one of FORTUNE Magazine’s 500 top companies. This year we ranked #351, the highest ranking of any of our peers.

To be recognized as an industry leader and be among the top companies in the world is an honor. However, what we are most proud of is the fact that FNF has always sought to foster an inclusive workplace. We have aggressively promoted women into active leadership roles throughout our vast company of over 23,000 employees. Today, FNF is the nation’s largest family of title insurance companies because of our employees. A couple of significant facts about our world-class team that supports all of you every day, and something that we at FNF are very proud of, is that 18% of FNF Board of Directors are women, 41% of FNF’s Executive team are women and 70% of our workforce are women†. At FNF, women are truly the majority!

In 2018, FNF Women Inspire was developed to bring women together at a grassroots level to discuss opportunities and issues.

What is unique about FNF Women Inspire is that the workshops are participant-lead and focus on real-world issues. We take the time to get to know each other and foster a safe environment to candidly discuss how to move forward on a number of topics. Two of FNF’s core precepts have played a big role in how we address action items from these meetings. One is ‘Autonomy & Entrepreneurship’ and the other is ‘Bias for Action’. The women who participate in these workshops show these precepts in action with two major initiatives coming from the program.

First, we have established a formal mentorship program for women within the company who are interested in growing their careers. Pairing senior-level women with mentees from across the country has been a great success. FNF Women Inspire has built a program with many resources to facilitate the mentor/mentee relationship. As with all good mentorship programs both the mentors and mentees feel like they are growing because of the connections.

Second, we have several members actively engaged in the development of DEI initiatives. Working together with our Human Resources and legal teams, we have been working to create best practices that apply to individual operations and are meant to engage everyone within the organization. This grassroots effort keeps all operations within the organization focused on this very relevant topic.

If you are working within your organization to create more opportunities for women don’t be afraid to just start! Moving forward and building an effort from the ground up gives everyone the chance to step forward and take ownership in the process. It also allows for building true friendships that can help facilitate getting things done. Last and maybe one of the most important things we have learned from this program is to have fun together along the way.

Thank you again to CREW and all the women in commercial real estate that move our industry forward.