Leadership

PRESIDENT & CHIEF CO-CREATOR

Michelle Halle Stern

Professional Talents:
  • Facilitating meetings and workshops, making every voice heard, while keeping on topic and on schedule
  • Seeing both the forest and the trees
  • Passionate public speaking
Career Highlights:
  • Built sustainability initiative of A/E firm OWP/P with top-down/bottom-up support when large firms were barely aware of green buildings.
  • Drove the founding of Illinois Green, one of the first chapters of the US Green Building Council
  • Teach at Northwestern University, systems thinking and metrics of sustainability
  • Facilitated dozens of green building certifications
Credentials:
  • LEED Fellow
  • Certified ToP Facilitator
  • WELL Faculty™
  • Toastmaster (ALB, ACS)
  • MS Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences
  • BS Architecture
  • BS Structural Engineering
Personal:
  • Singer/Songwriter
  • Downhill skier in the mountains
  • Consumer of stories of good and evil, and personal development
  • Mother of 3 amazing girls