
Award-winning luxury real estate broker and founder of Aloha Luxury Collective, with 30+ years of sales mastery and over a decade leading multimillion-dollar negotiations in New York City’s elite property market. Renowned for blending high-performance strategy with emotional intelligence, delivering a white-glove client experience while mentoring agents, founders, and sales leaders to influence, scale, and close with confidence. Author of Becoming a Real Estate Agent: The Truth You Need to Know, a no-fluff guide empowering the next generation of agents through mindset, mastery, and purpose.
• Recognized for bridging high-performance strategy, emotional intelligence, and a white-glove client experience.
• Trusted advisor to high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and global executives.
• Advises developers on condo projects, overseeing all sales and marketing initiatives from pre-launch through sellout.
• Leads a team of agents to execute sales strategies, manage client relationships, and close high-value transactions.
• Develops training frameworks emphasizing mindset, structure, and precision selling to ensure long-term agent success.
• Donates a portion of every sale to philanthropic initiatives supporting childhood education, clean water, and global hunger relief.
Partnered in the successful merger of APT212 with Compass, expanding the company’s platform and market reach while maintaining operational leadership and transforming the firm from a rental-only business into a full-service brokerage through strategic leadership, agent development, and scalable sales infrastructure.
Oversaw on-site sales operations for a $75M new development project, managing strategy, marketing, and execution from pre-launch through full sellout.
Member of Corcoran’s #1 team citywide for transaction volume.
Served as a senior on-site sales agent for a luxury new-development project, managing pricing strategy, marketing coordination, and sales execution.
• Collaborated with the Sales Director and developer team on all marketing and sales initiatives, analyzing performance data to optimize ROI and drive qualified traffic.
• Created detailed market-trend and pricing analyses, benchmarking studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom inventory against comparable buildings to inform pricing strategy.
• Negotiated offers and closed transactions in partnership with buyer brokers, maintaining relationships that enhanced deal flow and market exposure.
• Organized broker events and on-site activations to increase visibility and generate new leads, frequently working extended hours to support sales momentum.
• Partnered with the construction team to oversee the punch-list timeline and ensure timely delivery of finished units.
• Reported directly to the developer on weekly performance, presenting insights and strategies to increase absorption and accelerate sales.
• Contributed to the project’s successful positioning and sellout through a balance of analytical precision, relationship building, and relentless on-site execution.
• Most Influential Broker in New York, RED Awards (2023)
• Emerging Broker of the Year, RED (2022)
• Honored Listee: Marquis Who’s Who (2023)
• Former Miss Kauai & Miss Leahi, Miss Hawaii/ Miss America Scholarship Organization
• 3× Undefeated World Polynesian Dance Champion
Rooted in Hawaiian hospitality, Shawnalei brings values of trust, integrity, and service into every business relationship. A portion of her proceeds supports clean water, childhood education, and world hunger initiatives.