Meeting environmental and land-use challenges together.
Meeting
environmental
and land-use
challenges together.
Expertise
Discovering common solutions
When it comes to resolving complex land-use and environmental issues, the dialogue between citizens, groups, businesses and government authorities is essential to decision-making. As an independent and neutral third party, I structure and facilitate this dialogue to assure that it is effective, inclusive, respectful of those involved and conducive to finding common ground.
Services
Specializing in public participation and conflict resolution
Public, private and association clients call on my services when decision-making processes about implementing a project or adopting policy rerquires support from a large number of stakeholders with diverse interests. My intervention adapts to the context and needs, and can include the following:
- Analyzing the situation, issues and stakeholders
- Designing and coordinating participatory approaches adapted to the context
- Mobilizing stakeholders and target audiences
- Facilitating workshops, working groups and public meetings
- Drafting reports and agreements
- Evaluating results
For mandates that require it, I collaborate with a network of experienced professionals.
Biography
Putting dialogue to work for more than 35 years
With more than three decades of professional experience, I acquired credibility in this field by creating a climate of trust, reconciling differences, strengthening dialogue and advancing collaborations between multiple stakeholders with various interests.
I have contributed as a consultant, facilitator and mediator to the successful completion of several hundred major projects involving social acceptability challenges – particularly in the fields of energy, transportation, urban development, protecting built heritage and natural environments.
I am a civil engineer and accredited mediator with a Master’s degree in planning and a diploma (DESS) in Alternative Distpute Reslution (ADR). I teach the Environmental Mediation at the University of Sherbrooke’s Centre universitaire de formation en environnement (CUFE) and Stakeholder Engagement in Land-Use Projects at the University of Montréal’s Faculté de l’aménagement.
I am a member of the Institut de médiation et d’arbitrage du Québec (IMAQ), the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec (OIQ), and I am on the Board of Directors of the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2). In 2013, the Ordre des urbanistes du Québec recognized my contribution to the development of urban planning in Québec with the Blanche-Lemco-Van-Ginkel award.
