Cara E. Houser ✨ Email & Phone Number

Workplace engagement leader building burnout-free cultures. Speaker & award-winning author of Burned Out to Lit Up: Ditch the Grind and Reclaim Your Life, a guidebook for burnout recovery.

Seasoned presenter and expert facilitator for professional organizations, businesses, and community groups. My focus on serving audiences and clients has resulted in transformational experiences for over a decade.

Book: Burned Out to Lit Up: Ditch the Grind and Reclaim Your Life, a guidebook for burnout recovery. “Like the Cliff’s Notes of how to get out of soul-crushing, mind-numbing burnout and rekindle your inner spark without hitting the eject button on your whole life.” Monthly Column: Dear Glinda: Career Advice and Inspiration for Powerful Souls Like You. As Glinda the Good Witch said: “You’ve always had the power. You’ve had it all along.”

Housing creator, expert distiller + communicator, and dexterous leader of high impact teams where all are empowered to lead. My teams, full of passionate, engaged, creative professionals, have produced over 3,000 homes in the San Francisco Bay Area, creating over $1.5B in value.Our work is centered in equity and sustainability. All of our projects are located in the urban core of the SF Bay Area, and all are mixed-use, mixed-income, transit-friendly, and environmentally sustainable. Having executed all of the roles in the development life cycle, from acquisition through design & entitlements, construction and ultimately operations or disposition, I serve as a trusted advisor and partner for my clients and teams. Project specialties include: mixed-use, mixed-income, multifamily, urban infill, student housing, modular, community non-profit, and transit oriented developments.Real estate development consulting services include:• Feasibility and financial analysis• Entitlements and CEQA • Community outreach and public relations• Leading design, engineering, and construction process and teams• Transition to operations and management • Skilled in sustainable development strategies and methods

Took some time away from the workplace to focus on family and personal pursuits. Some of my favorite activities during this time were learning Spanish and guitar, trail running, swimming, volunteering, gardening, decluttering the KonMari way, and long term travel in Mexico and southern + eastern Europe with my husband and kids.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Panoramic Interests, an urban infill development company, specializes in sustainable mixed-use projects close to transit. I oversaw all aspects of the development process, including financial and feasibility analysis, equity and debt financing, and managing the public relations, entitlement, design and construction processes. Panoramic retains most projects and manages them through its management company (Panoramic Management).

San Francisco, Ca, Us

As the general manager for the Panoramic Management portfolio of mixed-use infill projects in Berkeley, I oversaw asset management / operations and led a team of 15 people. In 2007, I served as the point person for the sale of the portfolio to EQR, the largest RE transaction in Berkeley's history.