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Join leading lighting distributors, vendor manufacturers and lighting-focused associate members in helping to move the industry forward. As a NAILD member you have access to and share abundant lighting knowledge, networking and training resources while staying ahead of the curve on cutting-edge lighting technology advances and design trends.
Legacy Training Programs
The LS-I and LS-II training programs provide companies in the lighting industry with a measurable and systematic way to help educate staff, recognize their achievements and strengthen their knowledge of lighting fundamentals. Learn more…
The LS-I program helps build staff confidence and competence in talking with customers about lighting products and guiding their buying decisions. Learn more…
LS-II takes your lighting expertise and sales skills to the next level to transform course participants from “product providers” to trusted lighting solutions professionals. Learn more…
Continuing Education
LS-Evolve is NAILD’s exclusive online training program featuring a semi-freeform modular structure where learners are empowered to pick and choose which module(s) they wish to study, on-demand.
Learn at your own pace and keep coming back for continued access to all the latest modules as we regularly add more great lighting knowledge to help grow your business to the next level!
New LS Evolve Modules
Get a Grip on Lighting
The Official Podcast of NAILD
From billionaires’ butler to very successful owner of 3 hair salons with 77 employees (which also meant 77 headaches) to lighting designer and decorative lighting store retailer. William has always had a knack for what looks good and that has served him well as a lighting designer. When he’s not out designing the interior and exterior lighting of a home, he’s minding the store in Santa Barbara (lightandhome.com). William George has been a photographer, interior designer, art historian, theatrical set and lighting designer, and successful entrepreneur in the beauty industry. He has always loved lighting and design and brings his fresh perspective and design sensibility to Light + Home
Restoring Darkness
A Podcast about Light Pollution and the Importance of Darkness
Epidemiology. From the Greek “epi,” meaning “among,” and “demos” meaning “the people.” In modern usage, epidemiology is the study of disease in populations. Professor Edwards uses this term for the “disease” of road traffic accidents. He has done extensive research on this in relation to reduced street lighting, by compiling data from scores of municipalities in Britain and has come to the conclusion that… well you’ll have to listen to the episode. Phil Edwards is a Professor of Epidemiology & Statistics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, one of the world’s leading public health universities. His research has focused on road safety (particularly of pedestrians), and he has used interrupted time series analysis methods to evaluate the effects of 20 mph traffic speed zones on road injuries in London and the effects of reduced street lighting on road casualties and crime in England. Most recently, he has researched construction site injuries in lower income countries, where rapid urbanization requires construction on an unprecedented scale.
Lighting Controls Podcast
Discussing the intricacies and unique challenges of lighting controls in commercial applications
How do we maintain our lighting control systems? We’ve said it before and Kelly says it again. Education! – and interoperability, but we’re not there yet – so, education! The facilities manager who leaves that job 5 years down the road is then replaced by a new facilities manager who doesn’t know the system and doesn’t know who to contact. Now the lighting doesn’t perform as it should and the company that installed it receives complaints. Nobody wins. Listen to this episode and learn how sales reps can help your projects from the very beginning to long after the building is occupied.
Kelly is in the DC metro area, living 45 minutes south of DC in a rural town on the Patuxent River with his wife and 2 toddlers. His career started as an IBEW Local 26 Electrician, where he spent a few years installing lighting controls. The draw for him was seeing the end-product of a project and seeing everything go from inoperable to working. He followed this over to Lutron as a field service tech performing startups and servicing systems for their commercial division. He was pulled by his best friend over to Chesapeake Lighting, when they needed an outside specification salesperson for lighting controls. He primarily calls on engineers and lighting designers, but sways in the balance of supporting the inside team, distributors, contractors, and end-users.