Retail Design: Layout & Display, Merchandising Experience
Develop and promote beautiful environments that work efficiently, keep occupants healthier and more productive, while serving the greater global goal of 'conscious living.'
Work includes serving as a consultant on sustainable design issues (commercial and residential), conducting lectures, writing articles, and creating films on the topic
Consulting in retail space planning & design, downtown revitalization, and conducting educational seminars.
Designer and consultant to retailers and professionals in the retail field, helping maximize the effectiveness of image, interior layout, décor, and finite budgets.
Educational seminars, interactive workshops and consultations for consumers, community groups, and trade associations, nationally.
Served as a consultant and speaker for the National Main Street Center since 1995.
Helped build "Challenge-Free Shopping" (1989-1992), a national organization developed to assist retailers to better serve physically and mentally challenged shoppers by cost-effectively removing or working around architectural and attitudinal barriers that exist within most selling environments.
Taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in the retail department, and served for ten years as a business counselor and lecturer throughout the University of Wisconsin system.
Developed course curriculums for senior level university students, manufacturers, and retailers.
Authors trend setting and "how to" articles for numerous trade publications.
Authored a comprehensive store design workbook, entitled, "Designs that Move Minds & Merchandise", From 2002 to 2009, wrote a bi-monthly column, "Conscious Spaces", for the Outpost Exchange magazine, a popular publication on holistic living.