James L. Newman
Owner/Managing Partner
Newman Consulting Group, LLC
 
Speaker
Extreme Power Connect
James L. Newman, is Owner/Managing Partner of Newman Consulting Group, LLC, consultants for energy-efficient and sustainable buildings. He is a Certified Energy Manager (CEM), a LEED® Accredited Professional (LEED AP), an ASHRAE Distinguished Lecturer and a Fellow of the Engineering Society of Detroit (ESD).

Jim is a member of the ESD Speakers Bureau and of the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) Committee on Energy and the Environment.  He is active in many professional organizations, has published numerous papers and articles and regularly appears on radio and TV speaking on environmental issues.  Jim is active in the US Green Building Council and is an internationally recognized seminar leader, trainer and speaker on Green Buildings and Sustainability.

He has founded 3 successful businesses, the first a new division in 1968 of an existing Detroit manufacturing company that had a volume in today’s dollars of $26,000,000 when he left in 1972 to co-found his own company.  He built that company to a $30,000,000 operation and sold it in 2004 to start Newman Consulting Group.

In 2010 he was named by Corp! Magazine as a Green Leader and received an Honorable Mention from the Detroit Free Press in the same category.

The Newman Consulting Group web site (newmanconsultinggroup.us) includes many educational articles and links to many Green resources.