Slade Qualifications

L’Tryce M. Slade, MRP, JD

1500 First Avenue North, Unit 54, Birmingham, AL 35203

YEARS OF EXPERIENCE 19

• Owner of Slade Land Use, Environmental, and Transportation Planning, owner six years
• Gentle, Pickens, and Turner law firm, Associate one and a half years
• Arcadis, Environmental Planner one year
• North Carolina Department of Transportation, Community Planner one year
• US EPA Fellow and Summer Legal Clerk
• Federal Highway Administration Summer Legal Clerk

EDUCATION

• 2004 Juris Doctorate Degree, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 2001 Masters in Regional Planning, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Environmental and Land Use Planning)
• 1998 Bachelors of Arts, Political Science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 1998 Bachelor of Arts, Communication Studies University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 2011 Dartmouth Tuck Executive Education Program for the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council
• 2017 Inaugural Class of the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC) Energy Executive Program

LEADERSHIP

• 2020 Beck Envision Partnership Program is an active mentorship program for construction companies.
• 2019 Mentor Protégé Connect Accelerate Alumni Inaugural Class
• 2018-2019 Delta Supplier Development Academy
• 2018 Georgia Mentor Protégé Connection
• 2018 City of Atlanta Watershed and Aviation Small Business Development Program
• 2016 20 for the next 20 BHM Biz 20 emerging leaders who have already made major contributions to Birmingham business
• 2016 Construction Business Management Institute Hartsfield Jackson Airport
• 2016 SBA Emerging Leaders Program
• 2016 SBA and Alabama Power Grow Smart
• 2012-2017 National Association of Women in Construction Mentoring Program
• 2015 Inner City Capital Connections Participant
• 2015 UAB Collat School of Business Academic Small Business Alliance
• 2015-JE Dunn Construction Diversity Program
• 2015-SBA Emerging Leaders
• 2014-2015 Emerging Leader Alabama Builders and Contractors Huntsville
• 2014 Emerging Contractors for Alabama Builders and Contractors
• 2013 Emerging Leader Alabama Builders and Contractors Birmingham
• 2013 Alabama Power Supplier Diversity
• 2012-2013Junior League Leadership Institute
• 2011 Leadership Birmingham Class
• 2010 UAB Leadership Class
• 2009 Multiple Sclerosis Leadership Class
• 2007-2008 Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, Project Corporate Leadership Class

SKILLS

• A vision for the future in general contracting, land use, environmental, and transportation industry.
• Knowledge of environmental engineering (energy efficiency, conserve energy, water conservation, sustainability, remediation, clean up)
• Analytical ability through the legal education experience; (appropriate buy sell agreements, contractual agreements, understanding transactions, logistics, supply chain management, international supply management)
• Expertise in Lean Management(Lean principles are used to transform projects by identifying and eliminating all forms of waste. The comprehensive, holistic approach enables creating value through the practical application of Lean techniques. It makes the system work more efficiently)
• Outstanding ability to organize groups
• Innovative skills for creating efficiency through lean management
• Extensive community involvement through organizing and facilitating community workshops that relate to land use, environmental, and transportation planning
• Exceptional ability for leadership skills such as problem solving, influencing others, communication skills, delegating, cost effectiveness, and budgeting
• Creativity for complex projects that are data intensive

MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS

• National Association of Black Women in Construction
• Atlanta Business League
• Commercial Real Estate Agency (CREW)
• Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council
• Airport Minority Advisory Council
• Airport Council International
• National Minority Supplier Development Council
• Society of American Military Engineers
• National Association of Women in Construction
• Airports Council International
• Greenville Chamber MBA Program 2015-2016
• Birmingham Planning Commission
• Birmingham Business Alliance
• Greenville Chamber
• Alabama Builders and Contractors
• Alabama Builders and Contractors Association-Diversity, and General Contractor Committees
• Alabama General Contractors
• Birmingham Business Alliance Executive Women’s Roundtable, Past Co-Chair, African American Business Council-First Woman Elected Chair, Entrepreneur Roundtable
• Women’s Business Enterprise Council South
• South Region Minority Supplier Development Council
• Birmingham Construction Industry Authority
• The Women’s Network
• Transportation Research Board-independent adviser to the federal government
• Central Alabama Sickle Cell Junior Board- helped raise $500,000
• Boy Scouts Committee Member for the Birmingham District American Values Captain Co-Chairman.Slade is helping to raise $50,000.

PAST MEMBERSHIPS/AFFILIATIONS

• Catalyst Change Agents Advisory Board
• Regional Planning Commission Central Alabama Rural Action Committee for the State of Alabama
• Regional Planning Commission Board Member
• Vulcan Kiwanis Club
• Shades Valley Rotary
• Alabama Ballet Junior Board
• Advisory Board Member of the Green Resource Center
• Mayor William Bell’s Young Professionals United Program
• Community FoodBank of Central Alabama
• Volunteer member of the Steering Committee for the Pratt Community Regional Urban Design Assistance Team (PC RUDAT) Landscape & Ecology and the Community Outreach Subcommittees after the tornado hit April 27, 2011.
• Boy Scouts Committee Member for the Birmingham District American Values Captain Co-Chairman raising $50,000 (Fundraiser).

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES

• Host Fundraising Committee for Children’s Hospital Believe Event
• Fire House Shelter Board Member 2016
• Central Alabama Sickle Cell Junior Board (Fundraiser)
• Junior League of Birmingham-rape crisis center, Seed2Plate Jones Valley Farm, room maker over for Autistic Adults, and Junior League Magazine Corporate Donations
• Birmingham Links, Inc.