Senior Director of Energy + Sustainability, L+M Development Partners
Laura Spencer Humphrey is the Senior Director of Sustainability at L+M Development Partners – an impact driven, vertically integrated developer, builder, and manager of multifamily, mixed use, and affordable housing. At L+M, Laura leads the company’s effort to build better communities with an innovative and climate-forward perspective. She draws from her experience as a former decarbonization consultant who advised utilities and Fortune 500 companies on planning for the carbon transition. In advancing L+M’s energy and sustainability platform, Laura created a department that combines industry best practices with a practical approach to sustainability that focuses on technical interventions at the property and portfolio level. Her department works across the building lifecycle to improve energy efficiency, increase the adoption of distributed energy resources, and set the company’s carbon strategy.
Laura has over a decade of experience leading strategies to realize energy and carbon goals in the built environment at the organizational and regional level. Prior to L+M, she spearheaded the development of decarbonization strategies for private sector clients at ENGIE Impact and directed energy initiatives at the state, city, and utility service territory level in roles at ICF and NYSERDA.
