2015 Emerging Professionals Institute Speaker Bios. Faculty

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1 2015 Emerging Professionals Institute Speaker Bios 1 Faculty Don Elliot, FAICP Donald L. Elliott is a Director with Clarion Associates of Colorado, LLC, a land use consulting firm with offices in Denver, Chapel Hill, Chicago, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia. Don s practice focuses on land planning and zoning, growth management, and international land and urban development issues. He has also advised numerous local governments in Russia on land use issues, served as the Democracy and Governance Advisor to the United States Agency for International Development in Uganda for two years, and performed independent research on Indian urbanization and slum upgrading in Delhi for two years. He has managed planning and zoning projects that have been state level award recipients from the American Planning Association in Colorado, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. Don teaches a graduate level course on Urbanization in Developing Countries at the University of Colorado at Denver School of Architecture and Planning. He is the author of A Better Way to Zone (Island Press 2008), co-author of The Rules that Shape Urban Form (APA 2012) and The Citizen s Guide to Planning (APA 2009) and the editor of Colorado Land Planning and Development Law. Don is a past national Chairman of the Planning and Law Division of the American Planning Association, a past president of the Colorado Chapter of the American Planning Association, a past member of the Amicus Curiae Committee and the National Policy Committee of the American Planning Association, a member of the American, Colorado, and Denver Bar Associations, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners. He has served as a Board Member and Vice- President of Warren Village, a non-profit providing housing, child care, and career advisory services to single parent families, and as Co-Chair of Redemption Fellowship, a non-profit providing worship and advocacy services for the homeless and disadvantaged in the Capitol Hill area of Denver. Juris Doctor, Harvard University Masters of City and Regional Planning, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University Bachelors of Science, Urban Planning and Policy Analysis, Yale University Frank DeSafey One of the most well-known and recognized executive search consultants in the niche planning, building, housing and construction, environmental, sustainability, engineering and scientific industries in the United States and internationally, Frank DeSafey is a founding principal of Sequence Staffing. With more than 20 years of experience in the field, he is especially known and highly

2 respected for the success of the firm and has personally undertaken thousands of high profile search 2 assignments over the years. In fact, he has earned accolades for his ability to find and fill the most challenging positions with exceptional candidates that have not only made immediate contributions to their new employer, but have helped redefine organization s corporate cultures that have achieved greater productivity and efficiencies. A seasoned business strategist, often he is often called upon by client organizations to formulate new business concepts and divisions and then recruit the personnel to actually build out those entities. Including undertaking and leading a good deal of acquisition and merger efforts. Frank has also been a pioneer in the development and use of new electronic medium recruiting strategies and efforts. A noted speaker and networker, he is known throughout the industry as a strong proponent of continual career planning and professional re-investment. He is considered one of the key industry thinkers adding to concepts of branding and networking with consideration of the ever evolving and new technologically driven employment landscape. Frank is the industry professional that garnered accolades from his controversial challenges to candidates that they spend more money on their hair cut than their resume and professional development and the first day you get a job is the day you to start looking for your next opportunity. He has consistently been an advocate for understanding the emerging workforce and the new dynamics of workers in this technology driven and changing workplace. His aggressive style of challenging individuals to look at their careers as more than just jobs, their profession as more than just a direction and being flexible and entrepreneurial in the new and quickly evolving employment landscape has been at the core of Sequence s professional development services and product offerings.

3 Mary Kay Peck, FAICP Mary Kay Peck, FAICP, is the founding principal of MKPeck Associates, specializing in planning and management services. Peck has 30 years of local government experience as a city manager, assistant city manager, community development director and planning director. During her tenure as Henderson, Nevada city manager, the city was recognized by the International Association for City and County Managers for outstanding customer service and for its efforts in measuring and improving performance. The city also received the Trailblazer Award for Organizational Excellence from the Nevada Quality Alliance. 3 Throughout her career, Ms. Peck has managed a number of award winning projects, including the Southern Nevada Regional Planning Coalition Regional Plan, the Downtown Henderson Investment Strategy, the Henderson Visual Interactive Code, and the Springhill, Montana, Community Plan. While president of the American Planning Association, Peck laid the foundation for the organization s first communication plan and led its first membership growth strategy, resulting in a 23 percent increase. She has given numerous presentations and keynote speeches throughout the United States and around the globe on a variety of topics, including leadership, management excellence and planning performance. Masters of Urban Planning, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Bachelors of Science, Urban Affairs, University of Evansville David Siegel, FAICP David has 36 years of experience as an award-winning professional planner and manager for public and private sector planning and public works agencies working on public and private sector projects locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. He provides innovative, collaborative, and outcomes-based planning and communications expertise on land use, transportation, visioning, strategic planning, community development, and infrastructure projects. He has led or participated in the creation of countless community plans, downtown and town center plans, comprehensive land use plans, and long-range planning and policy studies, each being given its own unique approach. This breadth of experience, in conjunction with his background in visioning, communications, public involvement, and consensus-building provides clients with a deep and diverse understanding of community issues and planning principles. Mr. Siegel s work has been diverse in nature, ranging from helping the Abu Dhabi Urban Planning Council to refine a more sustainable vision for the urban form of new development and redevelopment within the metropolitan area and preparing a development management program for achieving it, to the 2012 APA National Planning Award-winning Cool Planning: A Handbook on Local Strategies to Slow Climate Change. Mr. Siegel is a skilled facilitator, enabling individual stakeholders, interest groups community groups, stakeholders, and decision makers to identify and agree upon community and project visions, guiding principles, plan implementation strategies, and approval criteria. He is committed

4 to the building of quality communities, the application of smart growth and sustainable development principles, and enabling community interests to develop and carry out a collaboratively envisioned future. Mr. Siegel is active in the community and in his profession, and is in demand as a facilitator and problem-solver for complex planning issues nationwide. He recently completed his service to the national Board of Directors for the American Planning Association as Board member and President. He is currently Senior Project Manager with Leland Consulting Group, Portland, Oregon-based urban strategists and development advisors specializing in real estate market analysis, economic forecasts and strategies, planning and development strategies, financial analysis, project management and implementation. Masters of Community and Regional Planning, Ohio State University Bachelors of Arts in Political Science and Urban Studies, Wittenberg University Craig Travis Everyone has a story so tell yours compellingly, advises Craig Travis, leading personal branding and candidate marketing expert, especially known for his highly effective, commanding communication style that has been referred to as bold as it is innovative. Noted for his keen insight, creative approach and in-depth understanding of the emerging job market, he is particularly proficient defining candidates brands and successfully marketing clients to win the finest positions throughout the U.S. and abroad. He has redefined the way candidates are perceived and marketed, and is widely respected for helping candidates establish, build, market, and polish their brand to clearly stand apart from others. An accomplished writer, career planner and public speaker, Craig is the foremost creator for Sequence producing exceptionally powerful candidate marketing materials, including customized resumes, cover letters, biographical and professional profiles, project lists and portfolios, social media and web content, and other vital personal brand marketing materials for career-minded individuals in a wide array of occupations and industries. He is deservedly acknowledged for providing an exceptional level of service and expertise at Sequence in the recruitment, branding and marketing of candidates for the core enterprises responsible for planning, building and maintaining our nation's communities, infrastructure, natural resources, and environment. Craig previously held leadership positions with the U.S. House of Representatives, California State Assembly, Hawaii State House of Representatives, Republican National Committee, Republican Party of Hawaii, and the California Department of Insurance. He is also an avid LAA Angels baseball fan. 4

5 Sequence is the premier executive search consulting firm committed to providing recruiting and 5 career planning solutions to the niche planning, building, housing and construction, environmental, sustainability, engineering and scientific industries in the United States and internationally. Bachelors of Arts, Public Relations, San Jose State University