Founder & CEO
Walker-Miller Energy Services
Detroit, Michigan
Carla Walker-Miller is the Founder and CEO of Walker-Miller Energy Services (Walker-Miller), a 22-year-old values driven company that changes lives through energy. Her high performing firm helps electric and gas utilities achieve mandated energy reduction goals that reduce energy waste, create local jobs, decrease energy burdens on families, and reduce harmful greenhouse gases. Carla started Walker-Miller in 2000 after an 18-year corporate career in technical sales, reinventing her company during the height of the recession, successfully pivoting from electrical transmission and distribution equipment sales to the rapidly growing energy efficiency industry.
Carla is a visionary who leads with both empathy and tenacity and has molded Walker-Miller into one of the largest African American and woman owned energy waste reduction companies in the country. Most recently, Carla was announced the 2022 Leadership Inspiring Energy Efficiency award by the Midwest Energy Efficiency Alliance (MEEA). In 2021, she was honored with an induction into the Wayne State University Ilitch School of Business Entrepreneurship and Innovation Hall of Fame and received the 2021 Woman Business Owner of the Year Award on behalf of the National Association of Women Business Owners).
Welcome & General Session: Humanity & Home Performance
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM