William Schlein, AIA
Taylors,SC
Summary
Seeking a transformative principal level role that is focused on providing expert client leadership within an office and market to build and maintain strategic long-term relationships on Mega healthcare projects and/or targeting premier clients in that market/office.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Healthcare Practice Leader, Principal, Vice President
LS3P Architects
Greenville, SC
08.2019 - 08.2025
- Firmwide role directing 12 offices in the Southeast.
- Responsible for client and project strategy, acquisition, and growth.
- Grew HC NSR from 7% to 19%, and profitability from 6% to 35% of firm profit.
- Grew the HC practice to a top sector firm-wide.
- Clients: MUSC, Novant, UNCH, WakeMed, Prisma Health, Baptist Health (Jacksonville, FL), Meadows & Ohly, DCI, Flagship Properties, Vannoy Construction, Rodgers Builders, and Thomas Construction Group.
Visiting Professor, Co-Leader of A+H Studio
Clemson University
Clemson, SC
01.2025 - 05.2025
- Co-Leader of Studio for graduate students on their first inpatient behavioral health project.
- Guest Juror and Project Advisor, 1992-2025, including supplying project basis (MUSC Indian Land Hospital, MOB, and Novant Scotts Hill MOB and Hospital) for studio work.
- Vertical Studio Guest Professor, 01/2015-06/2015, led the undergraduate studio based on my firm’s Ethio-American Doctors Group Hospital, MOB, and Housing (Medical City).
Director of Healthcare
Novus Architects
Asheville, NC
10.2017 - 08.2019
- New firm position leading firm-wide strategy for new client acquisition and existing client growth.
- Directed regional presence and office-wide market advancement.
- Clients: Beaufort Memorial (Beaufort, SC), Roper Mercy St. Francis Hospital (Charleston, SC), Flagship Properties, and Hammes.
President and Founder
Anthrotects Architects
Greenville, SC
03.2013 - 09.2017
- Launched a firm dedicated to anthropology and architecture inspired by the Ethio-American Doctors Group (EADG) initiative.
- Clients: EADG Medical City, a 300-bed hospital, MOB, cancer center, and housing in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Upstate Montessori Academy, Greenville, SC; VGO, Charleston, SC; and residential clients.
Washington, DC Office Leader
WHR Architects (now Stantec)
Washington, DC
05.2010 - 03.2013
- Established a new DC office, acted as a merger liaison to local firm(s), and developed new business.
- Clients: Children’s National Hospital, Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, MedStar Georgetown University Hospital, UNC Rex Heart & Vascular Hospital.
Education
MArch - Architecture and Health Studio
Clemson University
Clemson, SCBA - Anthropology, Italian minor
University of Georgia
Skills
- Healthcare strategy and planning
- Facility master planning
- Program development
- Medical facility planning
- Consensus building and collaboration
- Business growth strategies
- Mentoring and coaching
- Academic integration
Credentials
- AIA
- NCARB
- LEED
Presentations
- 2010-2025, SAR AIA AAH Healthcare Chautauqua, Founding Co-Chair, organizing committee, panelist
- 2024, Whitepaper: The Future of Healthcare in the Southeast, Editor, LS3P
- 2023, AIA National Design Award (Unbuilt), Uganda Women’s and Children’s Clinic, LS3P
- 2019, HCD Magazine, Flip This Hospital: Renovations with Curb Appeal, Novus
- 2019, Aspire Conference presentation, Maintaining Vision Through Change, Novus
- 2016, TEDx Greenville, The Beautiful Hospital, Anthrotects Architects
- 2015, Texas A&M College of Architecture, Fall Architecture for Health Visiting Lecture Africa: Health Series, Ethio-American Doctors Group (EADG) Medical City, Anthrotects Architects
- 2014, Ethiopian Television, BBC, and NPR Interviews, EADG Hospital
- 2013, Vision 5 Advisory Board, Washington DC Office of the Deputy Mayor for Planning and Economic Development of the McMillan Reservoir
- 2010-2013, AIA Academy of Architecture for Health, Board of Directors, Education Chair
Timeline
Visiting Professor, Co-Leader of A+H Studio
Clemson University
01.2025 - 05.2025
Healthcare Practice Leader, Principal, Vice President
LS3P Architects
08.2019 - 08.2025
Director of Healthcare
Novus Architects
10.2017 - 08.2019
President and Founder
Anthrotects Architects
03.2013 - 09.2017
Washington, DC Office Leader
WHR Architects (now Stantec)
05.2010 - 03.2013
MArch - Architecture and Health Studio
Clemson University
BA - Anthropology, Italian minor
University of Georgia