Andrew Zolli

3.3.11 | Boston, MA | The New England Interior Design Community will gather on Wednesday morning April 27^th at the Copley Westin at 10 Huntington Avenue. Now in its 20^th year, the New England Business Leaders Breakfast is the region’s premier networking and promotional event for companies in the design, facilities management and real estate sectors.

This year’s speaker is Andrew Zolli. Mr. Zolli is a world-renown change agent and inspirational leader who provides insight on how to create resilient organizations that can bounce back from disaster. He is the Executive Director of Pop!Tech and his new book, Resilience: The Science of Why Things Bounce Back, is due out in 2011. He brings together top men and women from the fields of business, science, and the arts to look into the future and explore new approaches for the most difficult issues of the day, including ending poverty, fighting disease, establishing peace, developing energy alternatives and green technol­ogy.

Andrew consults with executives in some of the most celebrated and farsighted companies in the world. Always keeping a sharp eye on the future, his work reflects his broad experience as an innovator, trendsetter, and change agent.

Andrew’s work and ideas have appeared in the New York Times, on National Public Radio, the BBC, BusinessWeek, Wired, Vanity Fair, Popular Science, Fast Company, Red Herring, American Demographic, among others.

Noted for “offering hard-nosed forecasts and real-world solutions” (Vanity Fair), Andrew presents his readers and listeners with practical tools and new takeaways they can begin to apply immediately. As a speaker he is eloquent, energizing, and gifted with the ability to explain the newest and most-difficult-to-grasp ideas in an illuminating and entertaining manner.

At this year’s Business Leaders Breakfast IIDA is pleased to be honoring Lois Goodell, IIDA and Robert Brown, AIA, IIDA, LEED AP, of cbt architects with the IIDA Leadership Award, IIDA New England’s highest achievement award that recognizes their excellence in collaboration between Interior Design and Architecture.

Collaboration Creates a True Partnership

Collaboration is perhaps an overused word today to describe a new phenomenon in many businesses of people working in teams to solve complex problems. In the design industry, collaboration has long been the way of working for most practitioners. Successful design is the work of a partnership, where teams of creative and technical people are brought together and through deft leadership effectively solve complex issues and efficiently meet client’s budgets, schedules and aesthetic goals.

Lois and Robert have worked together for over 17 years on a majority of cbt architects’ interior projects and a number of key architectural projects, including work for Eaton Vance, the Boston Stock Exchange, Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP and Choate Hall & Stewart, LLP. Together these two veterans have created over a million square feet of corporate interiors, as well as numerous academic projects, hotels, housing developments and office towers.

Their collaboration is based on trust and an interest in design innovation, along with the management and construction of projects. Lois and Robert share a similar approach to managing client expectations and project delivery. They recognize the value of branding a space to meet each client’s needs and programming the space to achieve optimum work productivity and employee satisfaction. Lois and Robert bring their own design perspective to the aesthetic outcome of projects and their styles complement each other to produce a cohesive vision.

2011 Program Fees

Individual Event Seat UP TO April 1^st

Individual Event Seat AFTER April 1^st

Event Table UP TO April 1st

Event Table AFTER April 1st

Half tables are also available. Please note that the location of your company table(s) will be determined by the order of the payment received.

For more information, please contact IIDANE at 978.664.1110 or e-mail Joyce Blatt at [email protected].

The International Interior Design Association (IIDA) works to enhance quality of life through excellence in interior design and to advance interior design through knowledge, value and community.

IIDA is a professional networking and educational Association of 13,000 Members in 10 specialty practice forums and 29 Chapters around the world. Additional information is available on IIDA’s website www.iida.org.