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Meet Your Facilitators from Reframe Lab!

 

 

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Michelle Hobbs (She/Her)
Michelle Hobbs, partner at Reframe Lab, has over 25 years of experience creating design that inspires engagement and impact for organizations and brands in a variety of sectors. She is passionate about design’s power to enhance understanding, create value, and inspire a better collective future. She partners with teams to harness their most creative ideas and co-create their future path together. The results can take the form of a new team vision, strategic plan, prototypes for new products or services, or process improvements.
Most recently, she worked as sole consultant at New Bleu Works and within the global consulting firm ICF, facilitating innovative design thinking workshops. In these roles, she designed and facilitated online and in-person workshops for human services, energy, environmental, and transportation teams.

Prior to her facilitation work, Michelle spent two decades in corporate branding, marketing communications, and graphic design. She led an in-house creative team at VEIC and managed her own Burlington-based design studio, creating design campaigns for healthcare, specialty foods, and non-profit clients. She currently teaches design at Champlain College and is a member of the Board of Directors at Sara Holbrook Community Center.

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Peter Plumeau (He/Him) 
Peter Plumeau, partner at Reframe Lab, has 30 years of leadership experience, most recently as the CEO and President of EBP US, a professional services firm that partners with public and private clients to make better economic decisions through a sustainability lens. Peter provides a deep understanding of the challenges business leaders encounter in our rapidly-changing world. With a keen eye for identifying emerging disruptions, Peter proactively identifies options and opportunities for organizations to adapt to and lead change in uncharted waters. Peter has provided management and strategic advisory services to over 100 firms, agencies, and organizations across the US and Canada.

 
Related specifically to climate resilience, Peter developed and facilitated more than a dozen workshops across the US for state and regional planning agencies on integrating climate considerations into infrastructure planning. Recently, he was a speaker on small business climate resilience at the National Adaptation Forum in Minnesota. He was also part of the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) team that facilitated government workshops on climate change and urban sustainability in Nanjing and Shanghai, China. In addition, as a policy advisor for the National Coalition for Community Capital (NC3), Peter advocates for inclusive community investment, championing economic diversity. Peter also serves as Chair of the of the Vermont Clean Cities Coalition, which brings together public and private stakeholders from across the state to facilitate development and adaptation of more sustainable transportation and mobility solutions.
 

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