Mack follows the fast track to job of her dreams.

Trying to get the president of Corcoran Sunshine Marketing Group in one place for more than 15 minutes is like finding a vacant plot of land to build a condo in Manhattan.

Kelly Kennedy Mack is a 33-year-old live wire who spends her time racing from on-site sales meetings at a plethora of high-profile New York developments, to floor plan review conferences for several California projects, to strategy sessions in Boca Raton, Florida.

Her appointments calendar is peppered with some of the most recognizable names in the business, from Harry Macklowe to Richard Meier, Orin Wilf to Izak Senbahar.

Mack admits she's barely had time to catch her breath since taking over the reins of the group in the summer of last year from her long-time mentor, marketing powerhouse, Louise Sunshine. But that's just the way she likes it.

"I do have a busy schedule, but I have a tremendous amount of energy because I wake up every day excited about what's in store for me," she said.

"On any given day, I can be at a host of different meetings to discuss and plan some of the most exciting new developments in the country. I get to work with some of the most influential developers in the world and the greatest talents from the fields of architecture and design. I'm not sure where else you could find a job like this."

Whether Mack found the job or the job found her is truly the stuff of serendipity.

A former executive with the Turner Broadcasting company, she has always run in circles where art, architecture, design and travel have been a staple.

She was born into a New York family with a passion for travel that engrained in her early an appreciation of the world around her. Whether it was a five-story walk-up on her home turf or an ancient castle in Scotland, Mack said she has always been fascinated by the assortment of abodes that people call home.

She attended New York's prestigious Dalton School where she met the man who would one day become her husband, Stephen Mack.

Stephen's father is William Mack, co-founder of Apollo Real Estate Advisors and chairman of the Mack-Cali Realty Corporation, so it was almost inevitable that real estate would coagulate with her embryonic interests in lifestyles.

Stephen went to the University of Pennsylvania to study business and finance and Kelly attended Georgetown University in Washington DC. They both returned to New York where she began her career with Turner and he worked towards launching his own financial company.

Although Mack threw herself into her work orchestrating promotional and marketing opportunities for clients across all of Time Warner's companies, she decided she wanted to parlay her obvious promotional talents with some business acumen and enrolled at NYU's Stern School of Business where she gained an MBA.

It was while studying for her degree that she and Stephen got married and began looking for a home together, ultimately opting for a condo in a building branded by the-then Sunshine Marketing Group.

That search for their first home rekindled Mack's interest in the fabric of the city and the collection of homes it has to offer. "I found myself getting into the world or residential marketing and began to consider it as a career rather than going back to the entertainment industry. My father-in-law had worked with Louise Sunshine often and he suggested we meet. I had just completed my MBA and I saw this as a very unique opportunity to merge my interested in architecture, design and art with what I had learned in business school and to apply my skills to the strategies of marketing new developments."

At the time, Sunshine was in the throes of selling her firm to the residential conglomerate that was NRT and Mack admitted, "I was confronted with a vision of not only learning from a true pioneer, but being able to work closely with Louise to expand her already very successful company by taking advantage of some of the opportunities that NRT brought to the table."

Renown for not suffering fools gladly, Sunshine immediately saw in Mack a passion for the work that she herself had revolutionized and someone to whom she could one day hand the mantle of her legacy.

Mack was charged with the task of forming the Sunshine Alliance, a network of experts from some of the companies that made up the NRT family that provided a platform for developing synergies that would ultimately add value to the company's work for client developers.

"We found a great opportunity to establish a network of high-end brokers that catered to the kind of clientele that we represent in terms of high-net worth individuals seeking luxury first, second and even third homes that augment their lifestyle," said Mack, who was also responsible for new business development and worked to expand the Sunshine Marketing Group into the West Coast, Florida and beyond.

Mack is quick to credit Sunshine for mentoring her through the dramatic expansion the firm underwent during these years, explaining, "Under Louise's guidance, I was able to gain an incredible amount of experience in a short period of time. I was on the fast track and doing something I truly loved."

After the Sunshine Group merged with Corcoran in 2002, Mack thrived in an environment where she said she worked with the best and the brightest on a daily basis. By the time Sunshine stepped down from the firm in 2006 and hand-picked Mack as her successor, she said she was excited by the prospect of taking the helm and overseeing the work of more than 150 employees across the country.

Sunshine herself seemed happy to see her onetime protege head into the future confident in the knowledge that she would remain committed to the core values of the firm she founded.

Mack said, "I am completely committed to that foundation of creating innovative marketing, true value and unwavering commitment to our clients."

Perhaps it was insight on Sunshine's part that led her to the assumption that Mack would indeed be suited to the business of fully merging the two firms, an effort that has won her not only the respect of her peers, but also the respect of today's industry powerhouses.

Corcoran CEO Pam Liebman has said she couldn't be more proud of Mack for what she has already achieved and for what she believes the spirited executive can continue to bring to the table.

And while very much her own woman, Mack has indeed held strong to the ideals of her former teacher. She has harnessed the power of the mighty brokerage to leverage Corcoran Sunshine Marketing's prowess in the business and create a combined force she said is unrivalled in the industry.

"The combined experience and insight of both firms has enabled us to provide something no other company can offer; innovative marketing expertise, in-depth market research capabilities, technological sophistication and a huge in-house brokerage network of some of the most talented individuals in the industry, not to mention the incredible power of Corcoran.com.

"All of us at Corcoran Sunshine Marketing are incredibly excited about where we are and where we are going. The merger is complete, our clients are doing well, the market is strong and I am thrilled that we are all working under one roof in a combined office [at 888 7th Avenue]. It's designed in such a way as to create an open environment that is conducive to team work and constant collaboration. "It's a place where imaginative ideas can be born and nurtured. And yes, I do think Louise would be proud."