Dan Blitzer, LC, FIES is Principal of The Practical Lighting Workshop, a 30-year consultancy in lighting, marketing, and education. As educator, speaker, writer, and marketer, he brings 45 years of experience to issues of lighting application and technology, energy effectiveness and sustainability.
Dan has served in an advisory role with The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory for 15 years. His commercial clients have included Signify Lighting, LumenWerx, Rayon Lighting, RBW, and previously Genlyte and Lightolier, now part of Signify. Non-commercial clients include The Illuminating Engineering Society, The Building Energy Exchange, and The American Lighting Association. He is a member of The Lighting Agora.
Dan has written guides to energy effective lighting in offices, retail, healthcare, and schools; AIA-certified seminars on a wide range of topics, including lighting controls; remote and face-to-face training materials; guides for the NCQLP exam; and the video and printed history of the Lightolier company, The First Hundred Years. He is principal video interviewer for the IESNYC History Committee’s TALK project and has written the video Introduction to Lighting and the most recent edition of Lighting Fundamentals for the IES.
Dan is currently teaching lighting at the New York School of Interior Design’s MFA program and in the Institute for Continuing Professional Studies.
He is a board member and past president of the Designer’s Lighting Forum of New York, a continuing educator for the American Lighting Association, a President of The Nuckolls Fund for Lighting Education, and a Fellow of the Illuminating Engineering Society. He is Lighting Certified and a mentor in the Guiding Lights Program of the IESNYC.
Dan holds a BA in Economics from Columbia University.