Nancy Kleppel is an independent consultant providing tactical and strategic marketing and business development services to architects, engineers, and a diverse group of A/E/C industry professionals. She persuasively articulates the objective value her clients provide to their own clientele. She understands the particular challenges that A/E/C industry firms face in building a design identity and gaining recognition in a highly competitive environment. She brings a clarity and focus to that effort, providing firm strategy and management advice, client and project development, branding, communications and outreach for design and construction professionals. In tandem with her consulting practice, she is a co-founder of Live Give Play, (L|G|P) a real estate development entity developing purpose-built rental real estate communities embracing passive house design principles in walkable downtown locations.

She is also a co-founder of the Brick & Wonder Collective and a co-founder of Mentorship for Women in Architecture, a seminar series and network for women entering the profession, providing support and establishing relationships among all participants with the goal of ensuring young women in architecture stay the course to thrive in this historically male dominated profession. Nancy is a native New Yorker and holds a BA from Brown University and a M. Arch from Harvard University.She has lectured at The Pratt Institute, Columbia University and the Cooper Union for The Advancement of Science and Art.