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 the co-founder and a principal at the Los Angeles office of TERREMOTO. He believes that landscape architecture should rigorously examine the tools with which it creates: land, labor, materials and ecology. Through said ongoing invstigations into the nature of the relationships of the tools with which we create, landscape architects can come to build gardens that are just, fair, generous and beautiful to the creatures, land and communities they serve.

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.