“Our company is a shining example of how small businesses with big ideas can take a leadership role to change people’s attitudes toward sustainability and our relationship with our planet. I often say this as my opening line when I’m speaking to new audiences about what we do,” commented Tiffany Wilmot in a recent interview. “Listeners always light up with curiosity,” she says.

As President of Wilmot Inc., Ms. Wilmot definitely understands making an impact, having led her small, woman-owned sustainability consulting firm for three decades. Wilmot Inc. has an impressive track record for its expertise in innovative, high-performance design, green infrastructure projects, and resource conservation. For decades, the company has helped clients across the country increase profitability, improve productivity, and raise efficiency, all while becoming better stewards of both their own resources and the environment.

Wilmot Inc. has made impressive sustainable design contributions to hundreds of public and private sector projects, providing leadership, planning and direction for clients including the FDA, General Motors, the US Army, Metro Nashville, and the Coors Co. The Wilmot team is currently:

• Breaking new ground in Nashville by leading the sustainability effort at Metro Nashville Water Services, including a nearly $1 billion expansion of the city’s Omohundro Water Treatment Plant, a project that will also certify the plant as LEED & Envision Platinum and the most sustainable utility facility in the world.

• Adding solar to make all of Nashville’s municipal buildings carbon neutral.

• Guiding the sustainable revitalization of the historic 2nd Ave. North district in the wake of the devastating 2020 Christmas Day bombing.

• Wilmot Inc. was integral to completing Nashville’s $600M convention center, Music City Center, helping to attain a LEED Gold certification for the largest building in the state.

Ms. Wilmot has been named to the Nashville Mayor’s Sustainability Committee by the last 4 administrations and served in leadership roles on the Green Building & Energy Subcommittees. In 2015, Ms. Wilmot joined the Vanderbilt University faculty to teach sustainability, financial analysis, and environmental justice. She also serves on the Cumberland River Compact Board of Directors. She was named USGBC faculty and is licensed to teach approved LEED curriculum.