Shauna Sylvester is a Senior Fellow of the Definity Foundation, and the Founder and Lead Convenor for Urban Climate Leadership, a project of MakeWay. She brings over 35 years of experience in leading groups through complex problem solving, facilitating many initiatives with local governments on housing, energy and sustainable financing. Currently through UCL, she is supporting over 100 private, public and community organizations overcome the barriers to transitioning to heat pumps in low-rise MURBs. Shauna has worked to support sustainability in the green built environment since the mid-1980s. She is the former Executive Director of the SFU Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, the ED of Urban Sustainability Directors Network – US and Canada, and Co-Founder of five local and international dialogue initiatives: the SFU Public Square, Renewable Cities, Carbon Talks, Moving in a Livable Region and IMPACS – the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society. Shauna is an active volunteer and has served on the boards of Vancity, Vancity Capital, the BC Assessment Authority, MEC (when it was a vibrant co-op), Tamarack Institute and now serves as Lead Facilitator for Resilient Point Roberts: Going Solar where she is working with neighbours to bring solar to this small US exclave community.