Marc Heisterkamp Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon, United States

Portland, Oregon Area

Marc served as Executive Director of the Northwest Outward Bound School, the region’s premier outdoor leadership and experiential education organization. Marc led the organization through a pandemic, transforming the organization's business model and achieving 12% revenue growth from 2018 to 2022. He also co-chaired a national network-wide Equity Task Force, resulting in a national Equity Statement and creation of a full-time national Equity Director role.Marc believes strongly that future success of individuals and communities is based on emotional intelligence, people-centric leadership and other skills best developed and honed through experiential education. A lifelong learner, Marc works every day on these same skills, knowing that the best teachers are always learners first.

Portland, Or

Marc served as an executive leader focused on business and mission development at the U.S. Green Building Council. He had organizational and revenue responsibility for a number of industry sectors globally, including commercial real estate, corporate real estate, financial services, engineering firms and consulting firms. In 2014 Marc also assumed responsibility for the growth of USGBC's residential (LEED for Homes) and community-scale (LEED-ND) programs. In these roles Marc played a sales management role and worked closely with the team to set priorities, grow relationships and increase the market share of green building in the industry.Marc is considered a trusted ally by the companies he works with – helping them align green building goals with core business drivers and industry trends. Marc’s expertise in green building and sustainable business facilitates his development and execution of market engagement strategies and fosters relationships with the industry’s leading companies.

As a Vice President at Bank of America, Marc focused on sustainability within corporate real estate. Marc ran Bank of America’s green leasing and LEED for Existing Building programs on a portfolio of approximately 120 million square feet. After joining Bank of America in early 2010, Marc quickly launched a standardized green leasing program and index that seeks environmental provisions in all Bank of America office transactions. That industry leading program led to binding green lease terms negotiated in over 4 million square feet of leases. Marc also led the strategic redevelopment of Bank of America’s process for utilizing LEED for Existing Buildings, resulting in an enhanced pipeline of environmental projects and significant cost savings. Marc held responsibility and made significant progress towards Bank of America’s goal of reaching 20% LEED Certification of its global portfolio by 2015.

In his role at USGBC, Marc developed the initial LEED volume certification methodologies for companies and institutions seeking to integrate green design, construction and operations into standard business operations. Marc’s broader responsibilities included strategic outreach to the office, retail, hospitality, and industrial sectors, markets that together represent over two-thirds of the existing non-residential real estate market. During this time Marc built relationships with major companies who collectively brought over 1 billion square feet of LEED registrations to the green building movement. Marc played a role in almost every major retailer, hotelier, and investor commitment to green building during this time period. Marc pioneered the adoption of green building practices in numerous new market sectors such as retail and hospitality. In hospitality, Marc visioned and created the first hospitality industry’s first green interior design competition, Sustainable Suite, and successfully worked with key hotel brands on the integration of green design into their hotel prototypes. In retail, Marc oversaw the completion of the LEED for Retail pilot, concluding a multi-year adaptation of the rating system and initiated a green leasing guide for retail focused on integrating sustainability and site selection. Marc has brought the green building and sustainable business message to thousands through a broad range of industry conferences and private company events. He has also written numerous articles for commercial real estate publications such as Real Estate Forum, Hotel & Motel Management and The Institutional Real Estate Letter. He is the author of a chapter in the book “Hotel Sustainable Development: Principles and Best Practices”.

Mba, Concentration In Environmental Management

B.S., Biology & Natural Resources

Valedictorian