Lynda Welte is president of Blueprints For GREEN Design, manufacturers' representatives. With over 31 years of hospitality sales, procurement and manufacturing experience, she is based in northern Virginia. Her expertise ranges from sales marketing, custom furnishings manufacturing, specification development, project management, contracts and procurement. Property owners value her technical knowledge especially in value engineering in the manufacturing of a wide-range of FF&E. She has fiercely championed programs and content that are essential and specifically vital for owners, designers/specifiers and manufacturers. Her mission is to align herself with manufacturers, with a lesser degree, distributors. (Increased value for property and hospitality ownerships and brands!)She is energized by her successful fundraising and programming experience and brings to life the power of networking in seminars at colleges, universities and businesses.Founding committee member of NEWH Washington DC Chapter, 1990. Past president, 1999. Recipient of the 2001 and 2015 NEWH Woman of Excellence Award, 2013 Angel Award and nominee for NEWH's historic Woman of the Year Award. Inducted as Fellow NEWH, the hospitality industry network, 2019.Steering committee for the Cats Benefit held at The National Theatre for the benefit of The Whitman-Walker Clinic, 1997. This was a major fundraiser that combined efforts in the design community with the city of Washington, DC, NIH and the beneficiary.Committee member TOT (Transient Occupancy Tax) Committee of the Loudoun County Visitors Association (LCVA), 2002-2003. Chair the International Community Development Program heading up School from the Heart, a charitable joint venture between NEWH, Inc. and UNICEF.Volunteer at The National Cathedral. Lynda is a consummate networker and mentor. In 2016, she launched Small Talks, a modern, high tech version of 17th century salons. Small Talks brings people of different generations and multiple disciplines to present ideas and exchange thoughts about new business opportunities.Specialties: Sales and marketing, custom product development, branding, leveraging relationships and developing strategic partnerships. Networker, serial entrepreneur. Committed to the LEEDs mission for sustainability and cradle to cradle manufacturing.