Professional Passion:

• Drawing out the creative potential of people to design, build, and manage projects and initiatives that simultaneously develop social, natural, produced, human, and financial wealth of community

Professional Talents:

• Facilitating meetings and workshops, making every voice heard, while keeping on topic and on schedule
• Seeing both the forest and the trees
• Implementing and teaching sustainability and regenerative design and development
• Coaching and delivering passionate public speaking

Career Highlights:

• Managed energy benchmarking and LEED and WELL certification projects for small developers, world-class institutions, and Fortune 500 companies.
• Collaborated on green building ordinances, prototype specifications, design guidelines for public and private clients.
• Taught sustainability and regnerative design and development topics to 100s of students and professionals.
• C0-developed at taught graduate courses in systems thinking and sustainability metrics at Northwestern University
• Built sustainability initiative of A/E firm OWP/P when large firms were barely aware of green building.
• Drove the founding of Illinois Green, one of the first chapters of the US Green Building Council

Credentials:

• LEED Fellow
• Certified ToP Facilitator
• WELL Faculty™
• Adjunct Faculty, Northwestern University
• Distinguished Toastmaster
• former USGBC Faculty
• MS Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
• BS Architecture
• BS Structural Engineering

Personal:

• Singer/Songwriter
• Downhill skier
• Aspiring golfer
• Mother of 3 amazing girls