Management Consulting

Taking Your Projects, Businesses, and Organization to New and Exciting Places

Elizabeth K. Levin

Liz is President of Liz Levin & Company, a management consulting company that serves the transportation, design and environmental community. Liz Levin & Company positions an organization’s people and services for success. The company provides services in integrated marketing and sales, organizational development and leadership. Her clients are both regional and national businesses.

Experience

Prior to forming Liz Levin & Company, Liz was a Senior Vice President and Principal of Rizzo Associates, which was sold to Tetra Tech. The following are highlights of her career at Rizzo Associates.

  • Served as Group Leader for the Transportation and Environmental Permitting Divisions, which included transportation planning, highway design, municipal roads and signals, structural design and environmental studies. Re-energized the group after the departure of a dynamic leader and the winding down of Central Artery business. Developed new leadership, built a sizeable backlog of work and improved profitability.
  • Directed the strategic marketing and business planning behind Rizzo Associates’ successful rise to the top of the region’s transportation, engineering and environmental industry. Instrumental in the growth of the business to a $26-million, 200-person firm.
  • Diversified the business into new market areas. Played a key leadership role in shifting Rizzo Associates’ client base from predominantly private sector to a profitable mix of public and private work. Directed geographic expansion, including the launch of an Atlanta office.
  • Managed and/or directed some of the highest profile multidisciplinary projects in the region including Massport’s Logan Airport Intermodal Connector Project; Boston College’s 10-year Master Plan and Stadium Expansion; Access Boston 2000-2010, Boston’s Citywide Transportation study; the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority’s (MWRA) Watershed Protection Program for the Boston Metropolitan Area and the MWRA Siting Studies for the Wachusett Water Treatment Plant.

Liz also worked at Metcalf & Eddy. She managed the environmental planning group and played a key role in some of M&E’s signature projects of the time, including EPA’s Region I Mission Contract, Boston Water and Sewer Commission’s Wastewater Facilities Plan, the City of Austin’s Water and Wastewater Plan, the City of San Antonio’s Program for the Protection of the Edwards Aquifer and the MWRA’s Siting Studies for Nut Island, Long Island and Deer Island. Liz developed a reputation for effective management, outreach and consensus building on controversial infrastructure and environmental projects.

Liz’s experience includes working for governmental housing and urban development agencies at the local, state and federal levels.

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An experienced planner, businesswoman, and leader, Liz is a builder of vibrant businesses and organizations. She brings the basic values of honesty, integrity, compassion, and caring to everything she does and adds to these her gifts of envisioning the future, setting strategy, engaging and empowering people, achieving consensus, and producing results. Thus she works with CEOs and senior executives to take their businesses and organizations to new and exciting places.

Awards

  1. Rosa Parks Diversity Leadership Award,
    Women’s Transportation Seminar, Boston, 2007
  2. Phyllis Rappaport Alumnae Achievement Award
    Simmons School of Management, 2005
  3. Community Service Award,
    American Jewish Committee
    Greater Boston Chapter    , 2004
  4. Stephen Lewis Environmental Merit Service Award
    Environmental Business Council, 2002
  5. Pinnacle Award
    Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce, 1999
  6. Environmental Leadership Award
    Environmental Business Council, 1999
  7. Abigail Adams Award
    Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus, 1997
  8. Amelia Earhart Award
    Women’s Educational and Industrial Union, 1995
  9. National Member of the Year
    Women’s Transportation Seminar, 1995
  10. Boston Member of the Year
    Women’s Transportation Seminar, Boston, 1995
  11. Women Mean Business Award
    South Shore Women’s Network, 1995
  12. Service Award
    Society of Women Engineers, 1990

Board Highlights

  1. WalkBoston and Massachusetts Walks,
    President, 2004–present
  2. Massachusetts Governor’s Appointments Project,
    Chair, 2002–present
  3. Normandeau Associates,
    Board of Directors, 2004–present
  4. Women’s Transportation Seminar,
    National Advisory Board, Chair, 2002–2004
  5. Women’s Transportation Seminar,
    National President, 1998–2000
  6. Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce Women’s Network,
    Chair, 1999–2001
  7. Rizzo Associates,
    Board of Directors, 1999–2000
  8. Environmental Business Council of New England,
    Chair, 1997–1999
  9. Temple Israel,
    President, 1999–2001
  10. Women in the Environment,
    Founding Member
  11. Alliance of Women’s Business and Professional Organizations,
    President, 1995

Education

  1. MBA, Simmons School of Management
    Highest Honors
  2. Master of Urban Affairs, Boston University
  3. BA, Political Science, Wellesley College
    Wellesley Scholar