Sarah Susanka’s Topics:

1.     Outside the Not So Big House: A New Way of Being in the World (based on the book of the same name).

2.     Not So Big Business Practices for Companies of Any Scale

3.     The Not So Big Life: The First Step in Sustainability

Why is it that everything today is super-sized – from food to housing? What are we really looking for with all that excess? This presentation takes audience members through the logic that led Susanka to develop a new blueprint for the American home. Susanka shows that almost everything in our lives tends towards the oversized, when in fact what we’re looking for resides elsewhere. Applying Not So Big principles to our lives, she covers:

o   What is a Not So Big House

o   Making Less Feel Like More

o   Making the Most of Your Budget

o   When Do We Know We Have Enough

o   Identify What Matters

o   Pursuing What We Love

4. Not So Big Remodeling

5. Not So Big Community: A Vision for Our Collective Future

6. Not So Big Design Strategies for Builders

7. The Not So Big Way of Aging

Sarah Susanka’s Bio:

   Bestselling author, architect and cultural visionary Sarah Susanka is leading a movement to redefine the American home and lifestyle. Her "build better, not bigger" approach to residential architecture has been embraced across the country and her "Not So Big" philosophy is evolving beyond our physical habitations and into how we inhabit our lives. In both realms she believes that Not So Big should be the first step in sustainability, both for our own well being and for the well being of the planet as a whole.

   Susanka is the acclaimed author of nine best-selling books including The Not So Big House (Taunton, 1998), The Not So Big Life (Random House, 2007), Not So Big Remodeling (Taunton, 2009), and most recently, More Not So Big Solutions for Your Home (Taunton, 2010).

Thought Leader, Speaker and Expert Resource
   A master in the use of metaphor to help explain new dimensions of understanding, Susanka unveils a process for changing the way we live through fully inhabiting each moment of our lives and showing up completely in whatever it is we are doing. Whether writing about a new blueprint for home design or a new blueprint for living, she has a gift for making the complex simple and for demystifying even the most obscure of subject matter.

   Major keynote clients include West Coast Green, Johnson & Johnson, Lowe’s, Target, Best Buy and Herman Miller, PCBC and many universities, leadership conferences and government organizations.

   Susanka has appeared on numerous television and radio programs including Oprah, Charlie Rose, and Diane Rehm, and has received many accolades for her work. Fast Company named her to their debut list of "Fast 50" innovators whose achievements have helped to change society, Newsweek magazine selected her as a "top newsmaker" for 2000, and US News and World Report dubbed her an "innovator in American culture" in 1998. In May of 2007, Susanka was presented with the Anne Morrow Lindbergh Award by the Lindbergh Foundation for outstanding individual achievement, demonstrating a spirit of initiative and exemplifying great dedication toward making positive contributions to our world.

  Susanka is a member of the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects and a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council. She started one of the first three residential only architectural firms.

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