Participants learn critical communication skills such as active listening and interest- based communications and fundamental negotiation skills that will help them in all aspects of their personal and professional life. These skills are necessary to overcome...
Course Listings
Facilitating Effective Meetings
Understand what makes a meeting effective; how to prepare for an effective team meeting; developing goals and desired outcomes. Learn techniques to foster full team participation and engagement. Incorporate strategies for handling meeting challenges. Includes...
Coaching Strategies
Learn supervisory and manager strategies in order to grow into project leadership roles such as Project Management. Understand the benefits of coaching to the individual and the firm learn messaging and delivery techniques for coaching staff. Learn and practice...
The Art of Feedback: Giving and Receiving
This course will show you how to properly give and recieve feedback. You will learn tips for giving and recieving feedback, a checklist for determing feedback readiness, guidelines for having tough conversations, and a frame for making formal and informal requests.
Relationship Management
In this course, Relationship Management, you will learn how to identify different employee and client types and how to work and communicate optimally with each personality type. You will get practice dealing with difficult people including how to resolve issues and...
Leadership IOS
In this leadership course, you will gain the ability to clearly articulate and define individual and organizational values along with the ability to identify, understand, and resolve value-based disagreements. You will have increased trust and fulfilment between team...
Leadership Skills & Styles
Participants develop heightened self-awareness of their particular leadership style and develop new skills. Most sustainability leaders come from technical backgrounds with no support for these skills. Project Managers also receive little management/leadership...
The Art of Networking
In this course, The Art of Networking, you will gain confidence in developing relationships. You will learn how to introduce yourself in a memorable way and be able to create connections and deepen converstaions. You will be able to understand the five styles of...
Mentoring Across Your Organization
The course, Mentoring Across Your Organization, provides an understanding of individual behavior styles and appreciation of these behavioral styles. You will also gain ideas for integrating individual behavior strengths for optimal performance and tips designed to...
Motivation & Managing Change
Having a vision and setting goals for what you want to achieve is a great beginning but the real challenge is getting buy-in and getting everyone to adopt new behaviors or activities. Truly institutionalizing sustainability in a company’s culture, management and...
UPCOMING EVENTS
Summer Shellebration
Summer Shellebration
Join us for an evening of drinks, delicious food (including oysters), and great company as we bring together the leaders, rising stars, and emerging professionals shaping a more sustainable built environment at our Spring Shellebration!
Emerging Professionals Roundtable
Emerging Professionals Roundtable
The BE+ Emerging Professionals is a community of ascending professionals across the green building industry and allied fields helping drive sustainable and regenerative design, construction, and operation of the built environment.
Carbon & Energy Roundtable
Carbon & Energy Roundtable
Join the BE+ Carbon and Energy Roundtable, a venue for architects, designers, construction managers, and sustainability professionals to discuss issues related to carbon and energy in buildings.
Just Celebrate – Recognizing AEC Social Equity
Just Celebrate – Recognizing AEC Social Equity
Join us for the 2026 Just Celebration—an evening to recognize organizations leading the way in transparency, equity, diversity, and justice, and to connect with a community committed to meaningful change. Grow with us in community to salute the organizations who have ...
Health & Wellness Roundtable
Health & Wellness Roundtable
Join the BE+ Health and Wellness Roundtable, a venue for architects, designers, construction managers, and sustainability professionals to discuss issues related to healthy buildings.
UPCOMING TRAININGS
Certified Passive House Designer (PHI) Training
Certified Passive House Designer (PHI) Training
This course is specifically designed to teach the international Passive House Standard to professionals in the U.S.
Phius Certified Builder (CPHB) Training
Phius Certified Builder (CPHB) Training
The Phius Certified Builder Certification is for tradespeople and construction professionals with field experience in construction and/or high performance building. This training prepares construction professionals to understand passive building techniques — airtight ...
Phius Certified Consultant (CPHC) Training
Phius Certified Consultant (CPHC) Training
This training is intended for Architects and Engineers. CPHCs learn to design to the Phius Certification climate-specific building standard. Projects earning Phius certifications (Phius CORE, Phius ZERO and Phius REVIVE) follow RESNET QA/QC protocols and achieve excelle...
LEED v5 for Construction & Contractors: Delivering High-Performance Projects on the Jobsite
LEED v5 for Construction & Contractors: Delivering High-Performance Projects on the Jobsite
As the industry prepares for LEED v5, this training offers a practical, insider look at what’s changing. Designed for general contractors, construction managers, and trade partners—this webinar will help you align frameworks like the Contractor’s Commitment and ma...
Planning for Building Performance Upgrades: Learn from 12 Diverse Commercial Buildings
Planning for Building Performance Upgrades: Learn from 12 Diverse Commercial Buildings
Join this 1-hour webinar to learn how commercial building decarbonization, energy efficiency upgrades, electrification, and renewable energy strategies can reduce operating costs, improve building performance, increase resiliency, and help achieve Building Performance S...