Webinar Series: Learn From the Best
Every year, as we read through hundreds of Partner of the Year Award applications, we get to see the very best examples of leadership, innovation, and excellence. Below is the first of this year's series of webinars featuring 2024 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year Award winners. Stay tuned as we add more!
Current Series
Disrupting the Status Quo to Overcome Barriers
Tuesday, September 10 at 2:00pm ET
ENERGY STAR is built on the concept of market transformation and disrupting the status quo. Join this webinar to hear from two partners who are innovating in their respective fields.
Link Logistics will discuss their strategy for overcoming the split incentive barrier that every warehouse landlord faces. They will explain their strategy in taking ownership of tenants’ utility accounts to procure and manage energy on their behalf, yielding savings for both the tenant and landlord. This allows the warehouse owner to reduce greenhouse gas emissions that would otherwise have depended on tenant action.
Ventas, Inc. will explain how they linked ENERGY STAR and Kingsley scores to create a goal-setting initiative for ENERGY STAR ratings. The Kingsley Index, a real estate benchmarking tool focused on tenant satisfaction, ranks properties on a 1-100 percentile scale, similar to ENERGY STAR. Already established within Ventas for property management goals, the Kingsley Index's success inspired the sustainability team to shift from energy consumption-based goals to ENERGY STAR-driven targets, to further advance the company's Net Zero objectives.
Speakers:
- Justine Zienowicz, Sustainability Manager, Link Logistics
- Michael Braun, Director of Sustainability Engineering, Ventas Inc.
Justine Zienowicz is Link Logistics’ Sustainability Manager, responsible for overseeing all ESG reporting and communications related to the firm’s sustainability program. Over the past few years, she has partnered with Link’s Technology team to streamline and automate the firm’s data collection and reporting processes. She currently manages the go-to-market process and promotion of Link’s Energy Solutions product, the foundational piece of the firm’s sustainability program and a primary means of decarbonizing its portfolio. Before joining Link in 2020, Justine worked at Environmental Resources Management as a sustainability and change management consulting intern and as a supply chain intern at CDP, the world’s largest global environmental reporting platform. Justine earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Environmental Science from Emory University with a Sustainability Management concentration from Goizueta Business School. She also holds LEED AP and CEM accreditations. She is originally from Newport, Rhode Island, and currently resides in New York City.
Michael Braun is the Director of Sustainability Engineering at Lillibridge, overseeing Energy Star Certification and Net Zero Initiatives for all Medical Office Buildings at Ventas. With a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from Marquette University, Michael brings a wealth of experience in energy efficiency and sustainability.
Previously, he led a national sales engineering team at Carbon Lighthouse, crafting innovative solutions in decarbonization for Commercial Real Estate. Michael's career also includes roles in application engineering at Briggs & Stratton and mechanical development at Cummins Inc, focusing on product electrification and emissions compliance.
Past Series
You can also look back through several year's-worth of past winner webinars.