Stakeholder Engagement Consultant
Toronto, Canada Area
Stakeholder Engagement Consultant
Toronto, Canada Area
Jason works to empower citizen sector organizations with simple methods for facilitating constructive consultation, deliberation and decision-making among their many diverse stakeholders. He assists in the planning and implementation of large participatory meetings that lead to clear outputs, the design of affordable and effective community engagement processes and the selection and set-up of easy to use Internet tool sets.
Along with having a full knowledge of various engagement methodologies, Jason has created his own innovative paper based Advanced Dotmocracy materials and techniques for conducting efficient polling and participatory decision-making within large numbers of people in a variety of face-to-face and out of meeting environments.
Jason has presented workshops across Canada and the USA, researched consensus cultures in eco-villages in Denmark and spent six months in Venezuela investigating their evolving participatory democracy.
Jason works full-time for Lura Consulting, and volunteers as a board member of the Canadian Community for Dialogue and Deliberation (C2D2). He is also a senior associate with the Deliberation Network, an active member of both the National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation and the International Association for Public Participation, and a certified National Issues Forums moderator.
Large group consensus facilitation, deliberative democracy, stakeholder engagement, web development, interface design, open source, web project management and co-operatives, and experience from six months in Venezuela.
Masters , Design for Interaction , September 2001 — September 2003
Radio and Television B.A. , Communications , 1997 — 2001