executive director

Healthcare Surfaces Institute

For almost 20 years, Linda has crusaded and educated professionals about the active role surfaces play in the spread of pathogens that can cause deadly infections. She is focused on the holistic problems and the Seven Aspects be addressed for sustainable solutions.  With an understanding of the silos of expertise working on the same issue separately, she recognized a need for research and collaboration of all experts and founded the Healthcare Surfaces Summit known as Healthcare Surfaces Institute, a nonprofit 501c3 organization....

designer

Wingate Hughes

One of the first WELL APs, WELL Faculty, and Fitwel Ambassadors, Lida is an architect by training and an interior architect in practice with a strong focus on sustainability and its impact on the people in the spaces we design.  Lida utilizes her 15+ years of design and sustainability expertise to spearhead thought leadership and efforts incorporating the best of scientific and medical research into design strategies across all her work....

president

LGM and Associates

For over 49 years Lew Migliore has been associated with the floor covering industry. Challenges, experience, successes and opportunities servicing floor coverings lead to his developing a unique business model in the technical and educational segment of the industry, by determining and solving problems.  Lew Migliore is considered to be the floor covering industries’ most respected and competent independent, objective and unbiased analyst of complaints, problems and performance issues and is a uniquely qualified speaker, author and instructor on the subject.  His services are rendered in an honest and impartial manner to determine if and what problems exist, who or what is at fault, and why and determining resolutions....

general manager

Coalesse + Turnstone, Steelcase

principal

EYP Architecture and Engineering

color specialist and author

Eiseman and Associates

interior design director and practice leader

HDR

Leah has more than 30 years of experience as an interior designer and project manager. She began her career working in commercial design in San Francisco, California and has worked and lived in several international sites, leading design for healthcare, and corporate workplace strategies....

founding principal

Rottet Studio

Lauren Rottet is one of the most-celebrated interior architects in the world today with an extraordinary record of awards, publications, lectures, juries and honors....

facility design manager

James Avery Jewelry

As a seasoned design professional, Kimberly Marks has been recognized in the architectural and commercial interior design industries for her contributions as an Interior Designer in Texas.  She is currently the Facility Design Manager for James Avery Jewelry in Kerrville, Texas.   Prior to that she was owner and principal of The Marks Design Group, Inc., for thirty years, which specialized in Commercial Interiors.  She is the author of “Structures in Interior Design” published by CIDQ, and “Building Codes for Beginners – A Primer” published by ASID.  For over twenty years she has been involved in building codes education and development, with a focus on interiors.  She frequently addresses national conferences, professional organizations and university design programs across the country.  She is Past President of the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (Now CIDQ), and Past President of the Texas Association for Interior Design (TAID).  Ms....

Ken Sanders, FAIA, is Managing Principal at DesignIntelligence. He has a passion for sustainable design, global practice and the intersection of digital technology and design innovation.  Ken is also founder of AEC Design Transparency, a non-profit organization whose mission is to accelerate the development of healthy products, sustainable buildings and resilient communities....