The Handbook of Facilities Management A Guide to Integrated Excellence

Foreword by David Doxsey. Biographies. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Chapter 1. From Family Feud to Unity. Chapter 2. The Engagement of Facilities and Supply Chain. Chapter 3. Finance: Our Partner in Getting to Realized Cost Savings. Chapter 4. Optimizing Facilities Management: A Strategic Approach. Chapter 5. Supply Chain Operations: Integrating Facilities Management with Procurement. Chapter 6. Real Estate/Construction: The Nuts and Bolts of Strategic Planning. Chapter 7. Enhancing Collaboration within IFM. Chapter 8. Integrating Technology into Business Units: The Next Move Toward IFM Utopia. Chapter 9. Outsourcing Internal Departments in IFM. Chapter 10. From Coach to Player: Transforming Facilities Management Leadership. Chapter 11. Moving Toward the “Integrated” Future of Facilities Management.

Biography

Steve F. Sawyer is an executive with diverse experience in transforming integrated facilities management, commercial real estate, and global supply chain operations for Fortune 500 and private sector companies. He has a proven track record aligning multi-billion-dollar procurement, capital planning, and vendor strategies to deliver substantial cost savings and operational efficiencies.

Since 2020 he has been Executive Vice President-Operations and Technology for SolvingX, LLC, which provides technology and operational solutions in global supply chain, integrated facilities management.

He has held executive leadership positions in major facilities, supply chain and real estate industry companies, including:

• Jones, Lang Lasalle, Inc. (JLL), a global real estate services company with offices in 80 countries. where he served as Vice President, Sourcing and Procurement for the Americas in both Category Management and Facilities & Real Estate Operations. He led efforts to develop and integrate 25 global business systems with a combined $16 billion in capital, construction, direct, indirect, & trailing spend.
• CBRE Inc., a Fortune 500 global facilities and real estate management company. Serving as Director of Strategic Sourcing, he directed the $180 million Americas spend, involving 150 hospitals and more than 3,000 non-hospital facilities totaling 25 million square feet.
• Premier Inc., the second largest healthcare-focused group purchasing organization (GPO) in the United States. As Director of Strategic Sourcing (Construction, Energy, Environmental Services, and Facilities), he led a $1billion, 50-category sourcing portfolio—driving 20% growth in vendor spend and contract utilization ($790,000,000 to $1billion) while ensuring full compliance across all sourcing activities.

Steve is a member of the Johnson Controls Healthcare Advisory Council for 2025 representing the Energy-as-a-Service, Fire/Life Safety, HVAC, & Securities sectors. Sitelink. He is also a 2025 Board Member for Sitelink, representing the Digital Twin and Building Information Modeling tech integrated with Augmented Reality sectors.

With a coach-to-player leadership philosophy, is adept at building high-performing teams across healthcare, banking, retail, data centers, government, and real estate investment trust sectors.