A graduate of the College of Charleston, Bryan advances industry training around building performance, urban planning, and nonprofit management, and is a frequent speaker at regional conferences and symposiums. He is a “40 under 40” award recipient from the Charleston Regional Business Journal and received the Individual Leadership Award from the South Carolina Chapter of the US Green Building Council in 2012.

When he is not working with Watershed, Bryan serves as Executive Director of The Sustainability Institute (‘SI”), a nationally-recognized and award-winning Charleston-based nonprofit organization with a mission of “advancing resilient, sustainable and equitable communities while building the next generation of conservation leaders.” SI provides programming in three primary areas: home energy efficiency, weatherization, and critical repair; green building advising and certification of high-performance commercial and multifamily buildings; and environmental restoration of coastal ecosystems. SI’s weatherization and critical home repair program spans 5 counties of South Carolina and has been in operation for 15 years. Its green building certification program (Charleston RISES) currently has over 1.3 million sf of commercial buildings across the region being certified. Its AmeriCorps program is fully accredited with the national Corps Network and performs coastal restoration work across the entire coastline of South Carolina. SI has received numerous national accolades, including as the recipient of a “National Award of Excellence for Sustainable Community Development” by the Home Depot Foundation.