PCBC 2018

Joyce Mihalik
VP Integrated Design Services
Forest City Realty Trust


Joyce leads the Integrative Design Services group at Forest City Realty Trust, a team of engineers, architects and technical specialists who collaborate with asset managers and developers to identify best practices and standards for new construction design, sustainable programs, facilities engineering and building systems. After graduating from The Ohio State University with an Industrial and Systems Engineering degree, Joyce began her professional career with the CNG Companies, learning energy and utilities as a trade. She was conferred the Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Akron. After a twelve-year career with CNG, she left to join a capital venture firm, and served as Vice President of Public Relations, concentrating on permitting and regulatory affairs in the power industry. She then pursued her interests in the energy arena as “end user”, leading supply and demand side strategies at The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, and currently works for Forest City with executive accountability to core company values such as Sustainability, Alignment of Talent, Healthy and Wellness and Operational Excellence. She is certified as a LEED AP with the USGBC and has studied Negotiations at Harvard Law School. She serves as an Advisory committee member of the Real Estate Roundtable, USGBC & DOE Real Estate Group and as a Board Member for the Institute for Market Transformation. She does frequent public speaking, and recently published her first book on first-year career experiences and career planning. With a passion for health and wellness and as a BnB operator, Fitzwater House, Joyce provides educational messaging to other home hosts through her Twitter site @WellHosts and Healthy Daily Recommit on Facebook.

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