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Beyond Sustainability

James Middling is the Global Built Environment Sector Leader for Mott MacDonald, with responsibility for Mott MacDonald’s global Built Environment sector strategy and the growth of services in target markets. This includes responsibility for global building practices that, when combined, contain over 2,900 professional staff. On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, he talks about the price paid by the natural environment because of the built environment, the difference between sustainability and regenerative design, and his ideas about how we can continue to enhance society while simultaneously restoring the natural environment.

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Lessons in Leadership: The Leader’s Toolbox

Effective leaders possess a diverse toolbox of skills and abilities to support their leadership. You can't purchase these tools - you have to adopt them and make them a part of yourself.  They become natural extensions of the leader who masters their use in every situation requiring them.

Designing Value: Building Community

Julia Gamolina is an Associate Principal and Business Development Director at Ennead Architects, a visiting Assistant Professor at Pratt Institute, and Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Madame Architect, a digital magazine and media start-up that celebrates extraordinary women in architecture and advocates for greater equality in the profession. On this edition of This is DesignIntelligence, she shares how Madame Architect grew into THE destination to hear from women in the industry, how she gets students to understand and embrace business development, and how engaging with communities is at the heart of all she does.

Lessons in Leadership: Words and Expressions

When leading, every word matters and every expression is meaningful.

The Carbon Conversation

Don Davies is Co-founder of Davies-Crooks Associates, a mission driven consulting and adaptive re-use development practice focusing on lowering climate impacts on the planet. He is the past president of Magnusson Klemencic Associates and has worked on projects in 18 countries and more than 50 major metropolitan centers while being an industry champion for resilient and adaptive low carbon construction. On this edition of This is DesignIntelligence, he talks about the lack of a common language when we talk about carbon, what still needs to change, and what’s next as he continues to make a positive mark on the industry and the planet.

Lessons in Leadership: Purposeful Leadership

Why do you come to work? What keeps you showing up day after day?

Designing Value: Soft Boundaries

Tyler Goss is an architect and innovator with a diverse career with companies like WeWork & Disney Imagineering and now as a VP and Global Digital Lead at AECOM. On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, he shares his unique background and what he’s learned that informs his perspectives on the value proposition of design.

Lessons in Leadership: Inclusion and Diversity

As leaders in the built environment industry, you set the course for inclusion and diversity.  You have to be confident enough in the humility of your leadership to defer to others, guiding the dialogue towards positively collective outcomes.

Designing Value: Who’s Asking?

Marilyn Moedinger is the Founding Principal of Runcible Studios and has been an adjunct professor for over 10 years, teaching courses at Boston Architectural College, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and Northeastern University. On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, she shares what she thinks is the biggest value that designers bring to projects, the importance of articulating the difference between design and design services to the client, and where she thinks architects are missing major opportunities for compensation.