ULI Charlotte will be profiling all of our District Council Leadership. Keep checking back to learn more about the members committed to making our organization the best it can be!

• Name:  Stephen Stansbery
• Company/Organization:
  Kimley-Horn and Associates
• Current position:  Vice-President / Senior Planner
• Place of birth/hometown:   Pickerington, Ohio
• Years in the business: 18
• Most satisfying part of my job: Working with a diverse set of communities/constituent groups and collaborating with other professional disciplines to find solutions that are helping shaping our collective future.
• Strongest Leadership quality: Understanding that Patton’s words are still relevant today, “A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow” – the world moves at a pace that requires timely responses to existing and emerging challenges.  Establishing a framework for more informed decision making should streamline our process and help us to keep pace with the world around us.
• Career/Leadership advice: a) Trust that individuals and groups are capable of making tough choices when offered meaningful and relevant information (strip away the rhetoric); and b) you’re only as strong as the team that surrounds you: take care of them and they’ll take care of you.
• Last book read: The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality, by Brian Greene
• Favorite Vacation: Cozumel, MX
• Favorite Cause: Spina Bifida Association www.spinabifidaassociation.org
• Family:  Daughter Sophia (11), Spencer (5)
• Why I belong to ULI:   It’s a place where all the ingredients for success congregate: public-private, design-developers, planners and capital.