In this special episode of Checking In, celebrating International Women’s Month, Rosanna Caira, editor and publisher of Hotelier magazine, speaks with Patricia Phillips, CEO and Chair of the PBA Group of Companies, a diversified real-estate and hospitality company, headquartered in Calgary Alberta.  As one of the few female CEO leaders in the hospitality industry, Phillips has led PBA’s transformation from one of Canada’s largest landowners into one of Western Canada’s most innovative developers and hospitality innovators and she’s done it by pioneering a distinctive management and development model, astute deal-making,  and a compassionate and empathetic leadership style.