Colorado Leadership Series Event
Cost: Members $20, Non-Members $60
Breakfast Served
Speaker:
Ellen Albert, Executive Vice President
CORE Services
Viacom
Topic: "Global Reach - Local Pull: Building Community in Complex Times"
Description: Few decisions made by today's organizations are as visible, costly, and as long-lasting as the decisions made about their locations and properties. Millennials, downsizing, and outsourcing -- along with the ever-growing importance of state-of-the-art technology in the workplace -- has required real estate and facility managers to regularly reassess how they design and occupy space. Ellen Albert will present how Viacom/MTV Networks currently approaches its real estate and facilities management decision-making through its understanding and commitment to the business value of the built environment.
Speaker Bio: Ellen Albert, AIA, is the executive in charge of real estate, design and construction for Viacom where she is responsible for the overall strategic direction and design implementation of Viacom’s global real estate requirements. She oversees as well all facilities and office services, building operations, and corporate dining and special events for Viacom. In this position, Ms. Albert provides leadership for over 3,000,000 square feet of office, studio and production space for Viacom Media Network’s divergent business including the cable channels MTV, VH1, CMT, Comedy Central, Spike TV, TV Land/Nick at Nite, Noggin, and Nickelodeon. She is a Registered Architect in the State of New York, and a member of the American Institute of Architects (AIA). She is also a member of CoreNet Global, having served on the Board of the NYC Chapter and on their Education and Professional Development Committees. Ms. Albert is currently co-chair of the Board of NEW (Non Traditional Employment for Women) with Joe Ienouso of Columbia University and serves on the Board of the Times Square Alliance. Ms. Albert is a frequent panelist and speaker at forums which include CoreNet, Women in Green Forum, Neocon, the AIA Corporate Architects Round Table, Steelcase’s Forecast 21 telecast, and the School of Visual Arts. Ms. Albert was an honoree at the 2006 CoreNet Annual Dinner and the Capuchin Food Pantries’ 2005 “Women of Valor” luncheon.