WENDY GREEN LOWE

Wendy Green Lowe has 40 years of experience in group process facilitation and public participation support. She has managed large- and small-scale public participation programs in budget and on time to meet client objectives on highly controversial issues. Wendy has successfully designed and facilitated group processes for a variety of public and private organizations and specializes in managing collaborative processes involving diverse perspectives to consensus outcomes. She has developed and implemented public involvement plans, managed public meetings of various formats, and moderated public hearings. She is well acquainted and at ease with the policy-making process and how to design a program for involving the public in that process.

Wendy is an International Association of Facilitators (IAF) member, a Certified Professional Facilitator, and an International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) Certified Public Participation Professional.

She frequently facilitates stand-alone meetings for a wide range of clients, including the U.S. Department of Energy,  the Bureau of Land Management, the U.S. Forest Service, and US Environmental Protection Agency. Her specialty, however, is managing and expediting collaborative group planning and consensus-building processes. In the past four years, Wendy has successfully ameliorated 20 multi-stakeholder working groups dealing with issues as diverse as radioactive and hazardous contamination, sage grouse conservation, biomass utilization, and regional watershed management. She approaches each facilitation effort with sensitivity to the specific needs of the project and her clients.