Brandi McManus

Brandi McManus is the solutions vice president for energy at Schneider Electric Buildings Business. Over the past nine years, she has worked at Schneider to ensure efficient sales operations through strategic planning and proactive leadership with a focus on training and development of personnel. She is highly skilled in both domestic and international product development and improvements, as well as process creation and implementation.

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How to Build a Green Team: The First Step to Sustainability
By Brandi McManus, May 05, 2009
Long-term sustainable growth is important to building a successful company. In the final installment of her four-part series "Growing a Green Corporation: Meeting the Next Great Disruptive...
How Companies Are Investing in Sustainability
By Brandi McManus, March 22, 2009
Long-term sustainable growth is important to building a successful company. In Part 3 of her four-part series "Growing a Green Corporation: Meeting the Next Great Disruptive Challenge of the 21st...
Vital to Business Survival: Assessing the Impact of Environmental Pressures
By Brandi McManus, February 22, 2009
Identifying and implementing changes in environmental policies are not simple tasks. Yet pressures from customers, shareholders and competition show that progress is required. Part 2 of Brandi...
Vital to Business Survival: Reading the Signs of Change
By Brandi McManus, January 25, 2009
In this era of heightened environmental awareness, the ability to recognize the transformational power of the green movement -- and act on it -- can be the difference between life and death for a...
Driving Change in Energy Efficiency: A Carrot or a Stick? GreenerBuildings.com
By Brandi McManus, October 08, 2008
Despite rapid advances in technology, we still use 16 percent more energy than we did 25 years ago. We've made improvements in efficiency yet have invented more ways to burn energy. Here's a look...
Going Green From the Inside Out
By Brandi McManus, August 10, 2008
TAC recently embarked on six-month initiative to train 5,000 employees about energy demand across the globe and the challenges that go along with meeting it. Employees also got the chance to...
The Clinton Climate Initiative: A Business Solution to Climate Challenges GreenerBuildings.com
By Brandi McManus, April 21, 2008
Because the Clinton Climate Initiative is taking a very practical approach to addressing climate change through building energy efficiency, it presents an opportunity for companies to learn vital...
The Importance of Measuring Building Energy Use
By Brandi McManus, January 27, 2008
With companies rapidly seeking out every possible way to improve their environmental performance, many are finding that tracking down inefficiencies in building energy use is a quick and easy way...

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