Description:
Every institution relies on Facilities Management. Few understand it.
Yet when FM sneezes, the entire campus catches a cold.
Facilities Management is most visible when something goes wrong. When it performs well, it fades into the ...
Brief description:
Grant Sommerfeld is a recognized authority in post-secondary Facilities Management. With more than 20 years of FM leadership and consulting experience, he works with universities, polytechnics, and colleges to redesign operating models that shape institutional reliability, service quality, and risk exposure. His work helps institutions restore control, reduce escalation, and enable Facilities Management to support institutional priorities with greater consistency and credibility.
He holds an MBA and three professional designations in Facilities Management (CFM, CEFP, FRICS) and one in Management Consulting (CMC). He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and the current President of the IFMA FM Consultants Council. Grant is known for bringing strategic clarity to one of higher education's most critical and least understood functions.