This session explores how workplace culture affects workplace equity and the need to shift beyond equity awareness towards fostering more professional growth opportunities for women and people of color. Whether you're a manager/principal or early in your career, you'll learn about success stories and specific strategies tailored for landscape architecture.

What's in it for you? This session explores various cultural and economic benefits of being part of an employee-owned firm. Attendees will examine some reasons why making the ESOP transition is an attractive succession strategy for many firms, and what this transition means for the employees of these firms.

Landscape architects have long played roles in government agencies. What's the prospect for the future? Through a dynamic conversation, three public sector practitioners reflect on their career paths and the value of landscape architects leading from inside public agencies.

This course series focuses on Lean Project Delivery to help design, document and build projects on time and on budget. Lean methodology is a process, culture, and way of thinking. It is aimed at creating more value for the client and eliminating waste occurring from a lack of collaborative planning.

The power of big data is largely unharnessed and can be considered outside landscape architecture's realm of expertise. However, big data has the potential to build more equitable and sustainable communities in a meaningful way. This presentation aims to uncover how to utilize big data, whether as a novice or researcher.

Traditional methods of practice have been called into question by social movements and health crises in recent years. Alternate business models that prioritize workers' rights and agency offer a clear path forward. Looking at several approaches via case studies, we'll explore the benefits to the firm, the industry, and the broader community.

As crafters of the built environment, we have a unique opportunity and responsibility to make the right design choices. In this interactive hands-on session, you'll learn about the intersection of Equity and Climate Positive Design. The team will demonstrate tools, share case studies, and discuss strategies to become net positive.

Numerous environmental stressors impact the longevity of urban forests. Panelists expand on the value of canopy coverage, with topics including heat island reduction, storm water treatment, tree species selection, wildlife habitat, and human comfort. Learn from case studies and collaborations of successful planning, maintaining, and replenishing of urban forests.

Learn how landscape professionals can expand their climate advocacy efforts. Highlighting the Advocacy section of the "Member Field Guide" of the ASLA Climate Action Plan, professionals from various generations and geographical regions will outline and model approachable actions that you can take, where it's your 'first step' or 'the next step.'

We are witnessing a biodiversity crisis, with thousands of species lost, forever, each year. This session will help design professionals understand the many facets of biodiversity, and the means by which they can support biodiversity through design decisions.