
Meeting Your Lighting Educational and Marketing Needs
The Lighting Agora is a consortium of independent award-winning lighting designers, consultants, and educators, who all share the knowledge, passion, and empathy to deliver to our clients the foremost lighting education, marketing, web design, guest speakers, lighting controls integration, luminaire design, municipal exterior lighting guidance, NCQLP exam prep and technical editing.
The “Agora” or “meeting place” first found in the works of Homer, is an open space which served as the meeting place where citizens could meet and exchange goods, services, and knowledge. It is the place where Socrates, Aristocles son of Ariston (Plato), Aristotle, and Alexander the Great learned, earned and returned.
It was a place that encouraged discussion, discord, debate, and agreement. It was a place where dreams and ideas were developed, tempered, and delivered.

Lighting Education Consulting
The Lighting Agora has the industry experts to design, develop and deliver the highest quality in Lighting Education.

Managed Lighting Webinars
Outsource the management of your virtual events, webcasts, & webinars to streamline your lighting education requirements.

Lighting Industry Marketing & Research
Led by seasoned marketing professionals from the lighting industry, we offer a wide range of services to help you realize your marketing vision.

Lighting Design Consultants
Our experts have extensive, award-winning experience in virtually all lighting applications.
Our independent award-winning lighting consultants can use our expertise to collaborate with you to meet all your lighting education, webinar, marketing, research, and website design requirements. Our empathetic approach ensures that we listen to your specific needs and meet your requirements.
Meet Our Experts
With hundreds of years of experience in the lighting industry the colleagues at The Lighting Agora are positioned and have the lighting expertise to supply you with the pinnacle of lighting education, marketing, web design, guest speakers, lighting controls integration, luminaire design, municipal exterior lighting guidance, NCQLP exam prep and technical editing.

Meg Smith
Delivering the right light, at the right time, at the right place…for you! Meg Smith is a user-centered

Michael N. Maltezos; ASCE, MCIE, MIES
Formerly Director/Specialist, Public Sector Systems & Services for Signify Lighting Co. Michael possesses a wealth of knowledge from

Shii-Anna Mudie
Shii-Anna Mudie is a highly experienced technical consultant who is dedicated to advancing sustainability efforts, especially in environmental

Ted Konnerth, PhD
Ted Konnerth has over 40 years of Lighting industry experience. His professional background can be best summarized: Education:

Robert Soler
Robert Soler is the Founder and Chief Scientist of BIOS Lighting. Prior to BIOS, his most prominent work

Derek Porter, IALD, MIES
Derek Porter is a Principal and Owner of Derek Porter Studio and Associate Professor of Lighting Design at

Rob Lanteigne
Meet Robert Lanteigne, the visionary master lighting designer renowned for his exceptional expertise and artistic flair in custom

Chris Wolgamott CEM, CDSM
For over 25 years Chris Wolgamott has worked in the utility business in the Pacific Northwest, as a

Craig DiLouie, LC, CLCP
Craig DiLouie, LC, CLCP is a veteran lighting industry journalist, educator, and consultant. Currently, he is lighting columnist

David K Warfel
David Warfel is an overly sensitive, marginally materialistic, pseudo-tree-hugging Midwestern farm boy turned lighting designer. He’s been either

John V. Keating CSP
John is a professional controls specialist with many years of diversified controls experience including appliance controls, commercial controls,

Shirley Coyle, LC
Shirley is a recognized lighting industry leader with deep experience and connections in the North American lighting community,

Rebecca Hadley-Catter, LC, LEED AP
Rebecca Hadley-Catter, LC, LEED AP Rebecca managed the SOURCE Lighting Education Center for over 17 years. In this

Mark Lien LC, CLEP, CLMC, HBDP, LEED AP
Mark Lien is a world renown expert in the lighting field. Mark has designed interior and exterior lighting

Jane Slade, MID, LC, IES
Jane Slade, MID, LC, IES is the Specification Sales Manager for Speclines in Massachusetts, a lighting manufacturer’s representative

Dawn De Grazio, LC, IES Member Emeritus
Dawn De Grazio, LC, IES Member Emeritus Over the course of a long career in lighting (since 1986),

Randy Gananathan
Randy Gananathan is a globally experienced industry guru and businessman who has lived and worked in the US,

Bob Parks, LC
Bob Parks is an IES member, Lighting Certified (LC), Community Friendly Lighting Certified (CFLC) and an ecological lighting

Leni Schwendinger
Leni Schwendinger is a published, award-winning authority on issues of city lighting, with worldwide experience creating illuminated environments.

C. Webster Marsh, CLCP
C. Webster Marsh, CLCP C. Webster Marsh is the owner of Penumbra Controls, where he provides lighting

Julie Johnson, LC
Julie Johnson, LC is the Owner and Lead Lighting Designer for LiteSeeker Studio, LLC, which specializes in architectural

Jason Livingston, LC
Jason Livingston is the principal of Studio T+L, which has dual specialties of architectural lighting design and theatre

Tony Esposito, PhD
Tony is the Founder and Head Research Scientist of Lighting Research Solutions, a lighting consultancy providing services in

Mark Roush, FIES, LC, M.Arch
Mark Roush is principle of Experience Light – a 15-year consultancy in marketing and education focused on customer

Don Peifer, MArchSc
Don began his career in lighting as a designer for film and fashion. He designed the lighting for

Mary Beth Gotti, LC
Mary Beth Gotti, LC Mary Beth was the Manager of the GE Lighting Institute in Cleveland, Ohio

Peter Brown, LC
Peter Brown, LC With thirty-five years in the commercial & industrial (C&I) USA lighting industry, Mr. Brown

Meiling Fong, MSc
Meiling is a marketing professional passionate about building ethical and sustainable businesses, and the founder of Blueboxfish Research

Gerry Cornwell, LC
Gerry Cornwell, LC, (B.A. Hnrs, Brock University) is one of Canada’s leading lighting designers and educators. His expertise

Dan Blitzer, FIES, LC
Dan Blitzer is Principal of The Practical Lighting Workshop, founded in 1993. The firm provides consulting services in

Shane Skwarek
Shane Skwarek is the Owner and Chief Technologist of S-FX.com Small Business Solutions. An avid technology buff, Shane

Tom Butters, LC
Tom Butters LC, – Founder and Executive Director of The Lighting Agora/Executive Director National Lighting Bureau Tom
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