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The challenge to establish and maintain balance is both a person by person choice as well as an employer choice.  It’s critically important for leaders to spend the time and effort exploring the multiple variables of healthy balance for those they lead.

Alyson Watson is the Chief Executive Officer of Woodard and Curran, an integrated engineering, science, and operations firm serving clients across the nation. Alyson has more than 20 years’ experience as an executive leader, environmental consultant and project manager focused on water resources planning and water quality analysis. On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, she joins Dave to talk about the state of infrastructure and its effect on water, the idea of a national water grid, and a critical issue that shouldn’t be ignored as more utilities incorporate automation and technology.

Are you, as a leader, aware of the primary technologies currently driving your business and your industry?

On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, Dave is joined by Ana Pinto da Silva and Jonathan Salk. Ana is the CEO of Minka Incorporated. Her work synthesizes her interest in design, story telling, architecture and emerging technologies. Jonathan is the co-author, with his father Jonas Salk, of the book A New Reality, Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future. Together, they talk about the intersection of science and culture, the challenges to quality of life throughout the human lifespan, and how design can positively influence community and cooperation, and play a central role in changing the experience of marginalized groups for the better.

As a leader in the built environment, what are you thinking, planning, organizing, and funding to ensure pregnant opportunities are not squandered in false intellect or pretense-based posturing? The most sustainably effective leaders refuse to generate smoke, but instead live and breathe substance.

On this edition of This Is DesignIntelligence, Dave is joined by Ana Pinto da Silva and Jonathan Salk. Ana is the CEO of Minka Incorporated. Her work synthesizes her interest in design, story telling, architecture and emerging technologies. Jonathan is the co-author, with his father Jonas Salk, of the book A New Reality, Human Evolution for a Sustainable Future. Together, they talk about the intersection of science and culture, the challenges to quality of life throughout the human lifespan, and how design can positively influence community and cooperation, and play a central role in changing the experience of marginalized groups for the better.

What's behind the DesignIntelligence effort to develop leadership in the built environment industry? Dave Gilmore gives the "why" that led to the launch of the long anticipated DesignIntelligence Leadership Institute.

Matthew Kahn is a Provost Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California, a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a research fellow at IZA. On this edition of This is DesignIntelligence, he joins Dave to talk about intentional vs. accidental environmentalists, the power of incentives, and the chicken and egg issue of how the economy influences the climate change challenge and how the climate change challenge influences the economy.

When we express genuine generosity towards all those in our sphere of influence, we have everything to win and absolutely nothing to lose.

At DesignIntelligence we say, “The first rung on the ascending ladder towards effective leadership is knowing you don’t know and saying so to others.”  The essence of this maxim being humble awareness and confident vulnerability.