Mant Hawkins – What Would You Do If You Could Make Buildings Talk? – TEDxSMU 2015
4D Circle has created a new system of digitizing commercial real estate that allows people, business and natural resources to profit better together than apart. Mant Hawkins explains the remarkable results of 4D Circle’s work that rapidly increases commercial real estate value (the economic engine). Partnering with innovative thinkers like the Fort Worth Police Officer’s Association, the Fort Worth Police Department, The Women’s Center, Tarrant Area Food Bank, and others (the social component), 4D Circle is changing the way businesses create value, improve communities, reduce crime, and open up opportunities. While creating better communities 4D Circle also saves extraordinary amounts of electricity, water, and natural gas on their properties.
As Principal and Chief Executive Officer, Mant leads 4D Circle in modernizing and digitizing commercial real estate by linking inspired people, leading edge technical systems and social services to allow people, business and natural resources to profit better together than apart. The results increase the quality of life in communities, reduce infrastructure-operating costs, improve social access to the Internet, and conserve natural resources. The final component and the ultimate driver for this type of social change movement are superior financial returns for investors, and a lower cost of living for tenants.
Mant has led high-tech, and general management consulting companies, as well as defense organizations worldwide. His nearly 30-year track record includes awards for superior leadership, operational excellence, financial performance, and aviation maintenance performance.
Mant graduated from The Citadel and holds three Masters Degrees: MBA, Strategic Studies, and History.