Teri is a passionate community creator and storyteller who works at the intersection of marketing and community development to envision, design, activate and tell the stories of places that are designed on purpose to improve people’s lives. She writes about commuinity design and development, wellness in the built enrivonment, how consumer insights drive the design of places and spaces, and new home trends. She was the Chief Marketing Officer for the largest communtiy developer in the US for eleven years, and led community planning coast-to-coast. Today she works with some of the most innovative communtiy developers and entreprenuers to identify deep consumer insights and create places people connect with and experieces that matter.
Teri is Co-chair of the Global Wellness Institute’s Wellness Communities & Real Estate Initiative, and Assistant Chair of the Urban Land Institute’s Residential Neighborhood Development Council. Her work has been featured in USA Today, Washington Post, Forbes, CNN Business, Fox Business, BUILDER Magazine, ProBuilder Magazine, Builder+Developer, Best in American Living, and she is a frequent speaker at national real estate and design events. She spearheaded the America at Home Study at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic to understand changes in consumer behavior which may have lasting impacts on home and community design and resulted in the design and construction of a concept home awarded the Gold Nugget Grand Award for Most Flexible Floorplan. She has a Masters (Honors) in Integrated Marketing Communications from Northwestern University, and a B.A. in Communications and Sociology from Simon Fraser University.
