Peter Williams

About Peter Williams

Career Objective: Contribute to collaboratively addressing the challenges of growing organizational capacity for collaboration and learning, pursuing convergence of sciences and creativity, growing communities of practice, managing public lands and natural resources, and working within and across organizations and with communities to learn what\'s needed, grow the capacity to get the job done, and accomplish shared goals. Professional Experience: Consulting specialist to NASA projects on AI, HEC/HPC, and domain convergence, Senior Federal Administrator and public servant with US Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution and USDA Forest Service, including Line and Staff experience, Instructor at the Graduate and Undergraduate levels, Program Manager with federal agency and Non-Governmental Organization. Strategic planner, social scientist, and ecologist; inter-agency and inter-organizational policy mediation and facilitation. Specialties: Organizational change, federal administration, natural resource management, environmental policy, national policy development, collaborative planning, facilitation, mediation, conciliation, strategic planning, program management, and Federal Rulemaking. NEPA, FACA, FOIA, ESA, FLPMA, NFMA.

Experience

1. Senior Conflict Management Professional, Coach, and Organizational Development Professional

   Collaborent Llc

   Jul 2021 — Present · Tucson, AZ, US

   Roster member for Collaborent primarily serving US Department of Interior\'s Office of Collaborative Action and Dispute Resolution (CADR). Work generally includes Leadership Coaching, Workplace Planning and Mediation, and Workflow improvement, primarily for federal land management agencies.

Education

• Virginia Tech

  MS, Wildland Recreation and Park Planning, Dept. of Forest Resources

  1990 — 1993

• Kenyon College

  BA, Political Science and Comparative Religion

  1982 — 1986

• Utah State University

  PhD, Public Land Policy and Planning

  1995 — 2006