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Welcome to our new FMCC Executives:FMCC President’s message

Sunday, June 29th, 2025

Welcome to our new FMCC Executives As our Council moves into another fiscal year, it’s with pleasure we welcome our new Executives: President- Grant Sommerfeld Vice President 1- Samuel Asare Vice President 2- Ulug Hakan İyigün Treasurer- Brent Ward Secretary- Jesse Calvi With gratitude we recognize past Board members that have generously shared their time and energy with… Read the full article »

Leadership and Communications:FMCC President’s message

Monday, May 5th, 2025

Change continues to drive our thinking and interacting every day. Take a listen to our latest conversation with a ‘change’ expert. Facility Managers have a broad range of knowledge within the eleven (11) competencies of the CFM and while many of us are expert in a number of specific areas, we are all ‘Generalists’ in… Read the full article »

Change is a process, not an event:FMCC President’s message

Friday, March 14th, 2025

“Change is a process, not an event.” (Peter Senge) Over two years ago, the FMCC Board began conversations about ‘change’. Much of this change was in response to a global pandemic that influenced where we worked and how we worked. But it was and continues to also be spurred by technology and its influence on… Read the full article »

Articles:FMCC President’s message

Monday, February 24th, 2025

Big news! The Facility Management Journal (FMJ) is now completely DIGITAL!   While the Ask The Expert (ATE) pages are where articles written by the FMCC members are posted, this is not the only part of the publication where you can share knowledge with our FM community. Choose a topic you are expert in and/or… Read the full article »

2024, It’s a Wrap:FMCC President’s message

Monday, January 6th, 2025

2024 – It’s a Wrap! Reflection …. What we learned We don’t live in our technology devices. We manage them … so far … maybe not? Facility Management is in the Marketing Business – we call it Customer Service! After all, buildings are built and operated to serve the occupant needs. Meetings are a drain on productivity. As… Read the full article »

We’re launching:FMCC President’s message

Wednesday, November 6th, 2024

We’re launching …. After a number of months of planning and many conversations, the FMCC is publishing insights for the Facility Management community on Change – in a series of Webcasts. This series “Dancing with Change in FM” takes inspiration from the Peter Senge book – The Dance of Change: The challenges to sustaining momentum… Read the full article »

OKR:FMCC President’s message

Monday, June 3rd, 2024

The Board has been busy over the past number of months focused on our OKR (Objectives and Key Results) in pursuit of our Council Goals. This includes: · Member Engagement – with a special focus on Young Professionals and Associates and welcome to Eric Maclean our newest Board member representing Young Professionals. · Website changes… Read the full article »

Holiday Season:FMCC President’s message

Thursday, March 28th, 2024

We’ve flipped the calendar and are forging into 2024, but a short time span from now to reaching the first quarter of the 21st century. No matter what calendar we adhere to, tomorrow is another day in the cycle of life and/or the cycle of seasons for Facility Management. December is typically the holiday season… Read the full article »

EOY 2023:FMCC President’s message

Monday, September 25th, 2023

I am ending my role as the President of the FM Consultants Council this year, having been in that position since February of 2021. I thank the great volunteer work of our entire Board for their help and support during that time. We have had much success and some challenges including – in no particular… Read the full article »

Goals 2023:FMCC President’s message

Tuesday, July 18th, 2023

As I head into my final year as President, I wanted to go over some of my goals before I end my term. One is to see our FM Forum (on the Future of Work) take place before the end of August. The planning has been significant, and the ideas are flowing – we are… Read the full article »