Michael Saunders on life and leadership: You can’t ‘retire from passion’

As Florida real estate pioneer Michael Saunders enters her 80s, she’s both reflective on the past and responsive to future needs and challenges of her eponymous company. She’s energized and enthusiastic, as well as eternally curious about what's next — for the Florida real estate market, the Sarasota-Manatee region and Michael Saunders & Co. 

Saunders talked about that and more on Episode 22 of the Business Observer podcast, From the Corner Office. The episode debuted Nov. 9 and, like all other From the Corner Office episodes, is available on multiple podcast platforms. 

On this episode, I spoke with not only Michael Saunders but her son, Michael Saunders & Co. President Drayton Saunders. “I never dreamed my son would join my business,” Michael Saunders says. “He’s a risk taker and I am extremely conservative but as a team for the past 20 years, it all works.”