Info Session: Join a Business-Owner Peer Group
Are you ready to improve your company's triple bottom line: people, profit, and planet?
Join us for a free informational session to learn about participating in one of NESEA's Bottom Lines business development peer groups, and how it could be the best investment in your business.
For nearly 12 years, our BuildingEnergy Bottom Lines program has served architecture, engineering, construction, and other high performance building-related companies in the Northeast. We are currently recruiting for spaces in the program that will be available in July.
Bring your lunch and sign into this online event, where attendees will learn how the program works and hear directly from the owners of 6 companies who already participate. You'll learn about how Bottom Lines has helped them transform their companies, tackle business challenges, and work towards and meet their goals, all while forming deep bonds with other business leaders.
Topics of this informational meeting will include:
- Firsthand accounts of how being part of the Bottom Lines network has changed owners' approaches to their businesses
- An introduction to the facilitators
- More information about the structure of the program
- General Q&A
Bottom Lines Participant Panelists
During this info session, the following Bottom Lines participants will discuss their experience as business leaders in the Bottom Lines program. This will allow attendees to hear first-hand accounts of the power and benefits of participating from a diverse mix of practitioner perspectives. There will also be time for audience questions.
- Katie Faulkner, West Work
- Jason Paul, Daystar Builders
- Margo Valdes, Athena Building Performance
- Sam Newman, Alger Brook Design Build
- Heather Thompson, Juniper Design + Build
- David Silverman, STA Design Inc
About Bottom Lines
NESEA's BuildingEnergy Bottom Lines program serves a network of 8 peer groups, each composed of 9-12 businesses. In these professionally facilitated groups, business owners help each other design and build better companies by sharing lessons learned, holding each other accountable to their goals, and offering support and encouragement. All of the companies who participate are there to improve their triple bottom lines: people, planet, and profit.
Participating companies develop strong ties to other businesses in their specific peer groups while also having access to the full program network, which currently includes more than 75 organizations.
Who Participates in Bottom Lines?
Given the structure of this program, which includes travel twice per year to different members' places of business, participation is limited to companies from NESEA's territory in the Northeast. Funding is available to support the participation of qualifying women and BIPOC-led companies.
Contact bottomlines@nesea.org with any questions about this event or to learn more about joining this program.