Our Story
M|B|P was founded by Josh McManus and Joel Steinhaus. Josh and Joel first started making plans together when simultaneously at the right hands of two of America’s most audacious founders, both on missions to reshape places and rethink real estate. Having worked with some of the largest corporations, government agencies and foundations, they established a partnership on shared values and tested methods for making on-the-ground impact at scale.
Josh McManus
Josh McManus is known for turning big ideas into pragmatic plans of action, ranging from strategically reorganizing the multi-billion dollar Rocket Mortgage family of companies for exponential growth while also reversing Detroit’s population loss, to instigating the entrepreneurial and talent ecosystems that helped Chattanooga become a city on the rise after precipitous decline.
For the past seven years, Josh has helped Ford Motor Company with big plans to transform the company and the communities it calls home, including the creation of the Ford+ Corporate Reinvention Plan, the revitalization of Michigan Central Station as a $1.2 billion living laboratory for the future of mobility and the establishment of Ford’s Community Center for Economic Mobility in Stanton, TN.
Josh previously served as Rocket Mortgage and Cleveland Cavaliers owner Dan Gilbert’s Chief Operating Officer, creating a “for more-than-profit” plan to reorganize and reorient his portfolio of businesses, real estate interests and sports holdings.
Prior to his time in Detroit, Josh co-founded CreateHere in Chattanooga, TN, an entrepreneurship and cultural change plan and social enterprise that led to the training of tens of thousands of entrepreneurs, the world’s largest community visioning process and millions of dollars of economic development stimulated.
Josh holds business degrees from Georgia Tech and the University of Tennessee. His work and ideas have been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, The Economist, Entrepreneur, GOOD, The Huffington Post and even Garden and Gun. He’s been recognized nationally as a Next American Vanguard and internationally as a Marshall Memorial Fellow.
Joel Steinhaus
Joel Steinhaus has spent his career at the nexus of business, policy and media, assembling the partners and pieces necessary to make ambitious visions a reality. As an entrepreneur, executive and non-profit leader, Joel has operated across a range of industries, helping to transform organizations, launch new initiatives and build communities.
During the height of the pandemic, Joel partnered with a group of New York City real estate family offices to launch Daybase, a network of neighborhood workspaces, with a mission to reinvent the way work works.
Joel previously developed WeWork’s enterprise business, the company’s largest, most profitable segment working with large enterprises to support better business outcomes and culture change through the design and use of space.
Prior to WeWork, he was Managing Director and Chief of Staff to the Chairman at Citigroup, as the global bank underwent a massive business and cultural transformation following the financial crisis.
Joel is a trustee and past Chairman of New Yorkers for Parks (NY4P), a century-old civic organization, and is a former Trustee of uAspire, Corlears School and the Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association. He currently sits on the Board of Advisors of Heard Capital, a minority-owned asset management firm.
Joel is a member of the Economic Club of New York and a recent term member at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was also a 2015 David Rockefeller Fellow through the Partnership for New York City. Joel has an MBA from the Yale School of Management, where he was a Sutphin Fellow and a Greenberg World Fellow. Joel earned an AB, magna cum laude, from Harvard University.