Kevin Shepherd is the founder of Verdunity, a Dallas-based firm that provides fiscally-informed planning, design, and community engagement to help cities cultivate strong neighborhoods. Kevin is a licensed engineer with over 26 years of experience in civil engineering, planning, site development and municipal finance. He spent 17 years at global A/E firm HDR as a leader of the Dallas office's municipal services program and later as National Director of the Community Planning + Urban Design market sector. In 2011, he founded Verdunity to provide people and resource-focused planning and engineering solutions to progressive cities and developers seeking to move beyond business as usual. He also hosts the Go Cultivate! podcast and writes and speaks regularly on the topics of fiscally-based planning, small scale development, economic gardening and neighborhood revitalization.