Scaling Practice: Creative Approaches to Growth Management, Profitability, and Office Culture - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/non-HSW)

Alexis Landes is a designer, urban planner, and Managing Principal at SCAPE, where she has overseen the firm’s expansion from 12 to 90 staff members within the past eight years. Within SCAPE, she plays a critical role overseeing firm-wide operations, strategy, project management, business development and finances.

She has also served as Principal-in-Charge of several portfolio-defining projects. Externally, she manages client relationships and firm partnerships, developing tailored design solutions, teams and strategies to meet ever-changing needs. Alexis has taught professional practice courses and presented nationally at numerous conferences discussing collaborative approaches to business management and firm building.

David is a Principal at TERREMOTO, a formally and conceptually adventurous office for Landscape Architecture with offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles. TERREMOTO creates well built, site-specific landscapes that respond to client needs while simultaneously challenging historical + contemporary landscape construction methods, materials, and formal conventions. Our design approach is post-internet, critically-regionalist, and respectfully inflammatory.

Lisa's experience is in the civil engineering design of sustainable, infrastructure projects. As President & CEO of Nitsch Engineering, she is responsible for the vision, growth strategy, strategic direction, and overall performance of the firm.

A registered professional engineer in eight states, Lisa is involved in a wide range of professional activities, including Board leadership roles in the American Council of Engineering Companies (ACEC), the Environmental Business Council of New England, and WTS-Boston Chapter. She also serves on the City of Boston’s Women’s Workforce Council. Lisa holds a BSCE from the University Massachusetts Lowell and an MBA from Northeastern University.