Barbra Batshalom is founder and President of the Sustainable Performance Institute. She is an industry leader whose vision has led to the creation of programs transforming the market from public policy to professional practice. Her work focuses on the intersection of systems, processes and culture. With a diverse background of fine arts, social psychology and 20 years in architecture and sustainability consulting, she brings a variety of skills to her work and a unique perspective engaging the human dynamics of decision-making and creative collaboration to technical work. She's an educator, public speaker and change agent that works with a wide range of governmental, institutional and private sector organizations to help them institutionalize sustainability and achieve measurable improvements in performance and profitability. SPI's Roadmap provides a framework to help firms institutionalize sustainability and deliver consistent, high quality sustainability services and was adopted by the US government last year. She teaches Sustainable Real Estate Development in Brandeis' Int'l Business School.

Colin Booth is the Strategic Director of Placetailor, a Boston-based design-build-develop cooperative focused exclusively on Passive House and Zero Emissions workforce housing. With 20 years in design, Colin's expertise is in the integrated design process and integrated delivery models necessary for the rapid adoption of more sustainable solutions.

Steven is a Sustainability Manager at Consigli Construction Co., Inc., a regional construction firm based in Massachusetts.

Steven has guided the sustainability process on over ten million square feet of projects across many different building types and sizes, including but not limited to: k-12 schools, higher education facilities, mid-rise and high-rise residential, commercial interiors, retail interiors, and commercial office buildings. He has been a member of the Urban Land Institute’s Health Leaders Network, is a LEED and WELL Faculty member, a Fitwel Ambassador, and a Certified Passive House Consultant.

He has a Master of Science in Sustainability Management from Columbia University, and he blends business and science to specialize in sustainability, resiliency, and health and wellness strategies for the built environment.

As the Corporate Responsibility Officer for Thornton Tomasetti, Amy Seif Hattan works with the firm’s executive leadership to "green" the corporation's operations across more than 50 office locations and achieve greenhouse gas emissions reduction goals internally and externally in the firm's projects. She co-leads Thornton Tomasetti's Embodied Carbon Community of Practice, is on the Board of the Carbon Leadership Forum, and is a co-initiator of the Structural Engineers 2050 Challenge. She has long been actively involved in Thornton Tomasetti’s efforts to reduce the carbon footprint of the built environment through such programs as the TT embodied carbon measurement study and development of Beacon, an open-source embodied carbon optimization tool. With over 25 years experience working in the field of sustainability, Amy was an early champion of campus sustainability efforts and she worked as senior staff at Second Nature, the organization that founded the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment. She received a Masters of Public Administration of the Harvard University Kennedy School, where she focused on climate change policy and organizational change.

After pursuing degrees in Environmental Studies and Environmental Management, Kimberly has spent the past 13 years working on interdisciplinary teams tackling some of the built environment’s most pressing sustainability challenges, with a particular focus on climate change. As the Research Knowledge Manager for Perkins&Will’s Research Group, she draws upon her background in research and sustainability consulting to help bridge the gap between various practices and the innovative research happening across the firm.