John Rossi Company, Owner

Here to connect, advise, educate, and collectively create. Reach out to align enterprising interests, form collaborative teams, and to empower others.

A trained architect, historic preservation professional, and marketing specialist, John is a multi-disciplinary team member serving prestigious academic institutions, private and public sector clients, and Sacred National Monument Sites for N.P.S, and the U.S.F.S.

His first decade-long career as an advertising agency executive was leveraged as a trained architect, designer, and business development/marketing director for prominent firms in Boston, Cambridge, and Seattle. As Principal and V.P. of Strategic Planning, John hired direct staff reports to form a 16-person corporate leadership team integral to growing one of the top-50 U.S. architecture & engineering firms from 140 to 300 professionals in 12 offices.

John’s executive skills deliver a renaissance spectrum of experience to Build Community by Design™ socially, culturally, and through the built and natural environment including:

* Construction project management
* Preservation, reuse, sustainability
* Architectural program planner & design
* Business development team leader
* Entrepreneurial strategist & realist
* Staff capacity builder
* Educator, mentor, & coach
* Marketing communications specialist
* Proposal & grant development
* Writer, storyteller, public speaker
* Lifelong artisan builder
* Participatory visioning facilitator
* Travel guide & outdoors instructor
* Velocity coach & journalist

His engaging style strengthens interdependence among stakeholders, design teams, students, and client groups to engender broad-based participation to galvanize everyone’s understanding of the complex social, cultural, environmental, technical, design, historic, and economic aspects of diverse project types.

Wise sage on life, death, solo-parenting, and new life starts.

Boston Architectural College (BAC), Architecture/Planning/Preservation

Boston Architectural College, Boston Massachusetts, USA. Completed 6-years of B. Arch., program, Dean’s list for Design. 1991 – 96