2019 Women in Building Services: Stacie Alexiou, WATT + FLUX

Name: K.A. Stacie Alexiou

Title: CEO | Managing Director

Company Name: WATT + FLUX An LED Inspire Company         

How many years have you been in your current field? 20+

List up to three CRE organizations that you are currently a member of: 

• US Green Build Council | USGBC
• Urban Green Council
• Association of Energy Engineers |AEE
• Certified B Corp

What was your greatest professional achievement or most notable project in the last 12 months?
Removing over 2 million Kwh each from two DOT transportation facilities that host transport to over 62,000 people every eight hrs. We performed this work while working with the Facilities Terminal Services, our prime manager and the DOT to continue  normal operation and protect the safety of the passengers and workers while reducing millions of pounds of Green house gases from production, decreasing the energy consumption while providing a healthier, lower cost of operating for this DOT facility by a WBE  Company. We were most grateful for the opportunity to prove this can be accomplished with Buy America Act I, II procurement and manufacturing across the U.S.

What trend(s) do you predict to dominate your industry in 2019?
Relating your business to the UN SDG’s and being accountable to how your operations are contributing to one or more of these. Ours is climate change. Our work is having removed 9M+ pounds of GHG.

Which of your philanthropic endeavors are you most proud of?
Working with disaster relief. Our work comes full circle in many ways. We work to make businesses more resilient by utilizing power in a smarter way. Reducing consumption to what actually performs for them is how we “power intelligently.” Having volunteered with quite a few organizations, Team Rubicon is the most effective of philanthropic organizations I have worked with. They are all prior or current military and intimately understand the logistics of triaging and working efficiently and effectively to help people in distress during natural or otherwise displacing disasters. Grace Institute is exceptional in helping women of all backgrounds position to support themselves, work with them in the past was tremendously rewarding as you saw lives tangibly improve and begin earning from stable employment roles. This year we participated with The Harbor School on Governors Island. They have an excellent program to train students in life skills and make accountability and achievement very tangible through their work to become licensed mariners. It is a public school, any student would be very fortunate to attend as it affords the opportunity to finish high school with an in demand skill with earning power at a very early stage with hopes to help you work through college and be a valued producing member of a team that understands and positively drives how their piece affects the whole team. The Harbor School signed an MOU with SUNY Maritime College my Alma Matter, It would be highly motivating to see students follow the path to higher level USCG licenses and continue their education in both life and sciences with the challenge and well rounding aspects of the Merchant Marine.

What does it mean to you to be a team player? 
There is a silent support and beautiful rewarding aspect that is the art of making others shine. To remove yourself from the center of your preoccupation, and focus on how your work affects others growth. To know when you work as a team to position eachother for growth and support, you wind up standing in the places that supports and appreciates those around you, and it’s a talismanic content that appreciates this more, than drawing the attention on yourself. It’s much like tieing a knot. It’s never one strand, its many small strands and effort aligned that make its strength solid, supportive and reliable. All of what we accomplish is from a team, a family of efforts that worked together to stretch and grow eachother to their next advanced phase. Not being able to give one person credit for that, including yourself, makes each of the efforts and people involved more grateful for each opportunity and each other.