EOP2 Trainers
Stephani Roy McCallum
Organization: Dialogue Partners Inc. Number of years as an IAP2 licensed certificate trainer: Since 2005 Number of years as an IAP2 licensed Outrage, Emotion and Public Participation © trainer: Since 2009 (also a course developer Stephani Roy McCallum is based in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada and specializes in conflictual, emotional and controversial situations in public engagement situations. She views emotion and passion as an opportunity to effect meaningful change, and to engage people on the issues that are most important to them. She has worked on a wide range of complex issues, with diverse stakeholders on issues such as health care, education, climate change, land use, nuclear waste, contaminated sites, transportation and more. She has extensive experience engaging aboriginal peoples, multicultural communities and the “hard to reach”.
Stephani is a Certified Professional Facilitator with the International Association of Facilitators, and has a background in alternative dispute resolution, authentic leadership, advanced consensus building, outrage management, social impact assessment, and community development. Stephani has developed and delivers training, workshops and coaching in wicked problems, collaboration, facilitation and conflict identification and resolution. She has developed and regularly teaches a series of advanced courses, including: Group Facilitation for Public Involvement©, ANALYZE THIS! Making Sense of Conflict in Public Engagement©, STANDING IN THE FIRE: Transforming Conflict Through Collaboration©, Who are These People Yelling at Me? From outrage to engage©, and Leadership & Engagement©. Stephani regularly speaks on issues related to public engagement, public policy & lasting change, and has presented at numerous conferences.
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John Godec
Organization: Godec, Randall & Associates Inc.
Number of years licensed as an IAP2 trainer:
Member of the class #1 (May 2002) of licensed IAP2 Trainers, IAP2 Certificate Course curriculum developer, Certificate Course review team member.
Accreditations:
IAF Certified Professional Facilitator©, U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution (Udall Center) roster member (transportation and native sub-specialties)
Experience as a public participation practitioner (including area/industries of expertise):
Seventeen years actively designing and managing public involvement projects (30 total years of communication experience)for complex environmental, transportation, land use, urban and regional planning, facility siting, energy and other issues. Developed a public involvement and community relations protocol and programs for Motorola Corporation and a variety of other corporations. Managed more than 150 actively or potentially contentious issues resolving public and other stakeholder conflicts and building consensus.
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Mary E Hamel
Address: 1407 Lake Kegonsa Road |
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Barbara Chappell, MA Conflict Management, Dip HROrganisation: Simply Speaking Seanachai
Address: PO Box 110, Belair, South Australia
City: Belair
State: South Australia
Postal Code: 5052
Phone: 61+ (0) 8 82785698
Fax: 61+ (0) 8 82785698
email: chappell@aapt.net.au
website: www.simplyspeaking.ney.au
Number of years as a Licensed IAP2 Trainer: – 1 year.
Accreditations: Masters in Conflict Management, Diploma HR., Planning with Communities – Group Skills and Facilitation Training, Leading Edge Alternative Dispute Resolution Mediator (LEADR)
Experience as a public participation practitioner (including area/industries of expertise):
Barbara is an experienced community engagement practitioner and IAP2 licensed trainer, with a Masters in Conflict Management and a background in the development and implementation of community engagement framework models. She has recently worked with the Local Government Association in South Australia to research and develop a community engagement model framework for use throughout Councils in South Australia. Her work in this area gained her the 2008 LGMA Leadership and Management Excellence Award.
Barbara’s work with the City of Onkaparinga over the past two years on the development and implementation of a community engagement framework was awarded the Australasian IAP2 Core Values Award 2007 for the Best Policy Framework. She is experienced in a range of interesting and innovative community engagement techniques and an engaging facilitator with a passion for working with internal and external communities. Her mediation skills were developed through pro-bono court work involving small claims and resolving resident disputes in local government.
Barbara is the SA IAP2 Regional Coordinator and can be contacted for information on local network meetings.
When not tied to a laptop or working in the training room, Barbara likes to spend time with her husband Brenton at their beach shack and looking forward to the time when her grown up children return from travelling the world with all their stories about their adventures.
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Margaret Harvie, BSc
Organization: PlanCom Consulting Pty Ltd |
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Joel Levin
Organization: Aha! Consulting Email Address: joel@ahaconsulting.net.au
Website: www.ahaconsulting.net.au Certificate Public Participation (IAP2) Cert IV and Diploma in Training and Assessment
Post Grad Cert Counselling
Diploma Applied Science
As principal consultant at Aha! Consulting, Joel Levin has conducted engagement activities across a range of sectors (Indigenous, Human Services, Planning, CALD, Environment, Education, Local Government, Utilities, Waste Management, Health and Disabilities).
Joel has worked work large scale initiatives (Power line routes, State wide curriculum change, state wide legislative change, representation systems for Indigenous people in the Natural resource Management sector) and more targeted initiatives (Waste management and community relations, Gathering and providing Ministerial advice from the community, community/stakeholder project updates, climate change stakeholder summit, community water forum etc)
Joel also works with organisation to develop their ‘internal’ engagement policies, systems and practice. Delivering training, governance development and performance monitoring systems to ensure their engagement investment delivers the desired value.
Joel also works in the organisation development providing strategic planning, change management, organisational reviews and training and development into organisations. Working at the senior levels of Government departments, with boards and management of medium sized business and community based organisation.
Joel’s has a background in counselling, training, community work and senior management. He has held roles such as Senior Training Consultant for the Department of Community Development, Executive Officer of a youth organisation in Perth and between 2001 and 2004, established and managed the Not-For-Profit Development Unit, a commercial consulting arm of the WA Council of Social Service. The unit was recognised through a Community Services Industry award for the Development of Community Services (2002) and a Prime Minister’s Community Business Partnership award in 2004. Joel has been a guest lecturer as part of the Masters Program in Organisational Psychology run by Curtin University and has provided numerous presentations at conferences around the state and across Australia. Joel is also a presenter for the Australian Institute for Company Directors and the Institute of Public Administration Australia.
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Gale Simpson
Organization: G Whiz Consulting Ltd. Number of years licensed as an IAP2 trainer: Certificate Program: 2005 Emotion, Outrage and Public Participation: 2009
Accreditations:
Boston College – Certificate in Community Relations
Mount Royal University – Conflict Resolution Certificate
University of Alberta – Arts Degree (partial)
Gale’s background in public relations and community relations spans more than 25 years with the Alberta provincial government, a major utility corporation and currently as an independent consultant providing public engagement advice and solutions to a variety of clients. Her consulting practice extends through the areas of planning, education, transportation, not for profit, waste management, Aboriginal communities, and research and development. Specific services include: public involvement program planning and management; strategic communications; facilitation; public involvement training; and team building. Gale has been involved in some of the largest and most complex projects delivered in Alberta. Throughout her career she has focused on building trust through transparent and responsible processes. She believes her success can be attributed to being able to balance and negotiate the requirements of a variety of stakeholders with those of the client to achieve the best possible outcomes for all.
Gale has been an active member of IAP2 since 1999, beginning at her local chapter level (Wild Rose) and currently as the Training Director for the International Board. She has recently been certified to train IAP2’s – Emotion, Outrage and Public Participation and she has partnered with a colleague to develop an advanced level course focused on solving complex problems using a collaborative approach.
Gale is a founding member of the Canadian Trainers Collective (CTC), a cooperative agreement initiated in 2006 between four Canadian trainers, licensed to train the IAP2 Certificate Program. The CTC partners are the most experienced IAP2 trainers in Canada, and also offer several other advanced level public engagement courses. |
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Stuart Waters
Organization: Twyford Consulting |
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Nancy StichtOrganization: US Army Corps of Engineers
Address: 701 San Marco Boulevard
Nancy J. Sticht is based in Jacksonville, Florida, USA. She has more than 35 years of federal experience and is currently a communication professional with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. She has developed and implemented communication strategies and public participation and information campaigns for highly visible, volatile and complex projects, including the cleanup of one of the most polluted lakes in North America and the cleanup of former military sites in New York, Florida and Puerto Rico. She has served in temporary assignments as the lead environmental public affairs specialist for the Corps’ headquarters office in Washington, D.C. and as the acting public affairs officer for the Corps’ Pacific Ocean Division.
Nancy is a past recipient of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Michael C. Robinson award as Public Affairs Officer of the Year, two Corps-wide Locke Mouton Awards for Excellence in Public Affairs/Community Relations, the Department of the Army Achievement Medal for Civilian Service and the Department of the Army Commander’s Award for Civilian Service, as well as several national Corps journalism awards. She holds a bachelor’s degree in communication from the State University of New York at Buffalo and a master’s degree in Management of Adult Learning from the State University College at Buffalo.
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Bruce TurnerPhoenix Facilitation Pty Ltd
+613 9844 2005
Bruce Turner has 20 years experience as a facilitator of stakeholder involvement in complex and controversial projects.
He worked for the Victorian Government for 10 years, mainly in environmental impact assessment and the reform of the State’s land use planning system. In the course of his work he discovered an interest in mediation and 1998 he was awarded a Churchill Fellowship to study ‘public dispute resolution’ in North America and the UK.
For the past 10 years he has worked independently as a facilitator, mediator and trainer for a wide range of government and private sector clients, running everything from public consultation and mediation, to team building and organisational development processes.
Bruce is a Certified Professional Facilitator with the International Association of Facilitators, is a trained mediator and member of LEADR (Association of Dispute Resolvers) and the Victorian Association of Dispute Resolution, and is also a member of the Victorian Planning and Environmental Law Association.
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