Matt brings more than 25 years of proven experience building engagement strategies and managing successful teams across offices, clients and issues, including particular expertise in social responsibility, corporate reputation management, stakeholder engagement, media relations and integrated communications strategy and planning. Currently, Matt serves as the Deputy Task Order Manager for a contract support FEMA Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) Direct Technical Assistance (DTA) program. In this role, Matt helps direct and support a team helping disadvantaged communities and tribal nations access FEMA's largest pre-disaster mitigation grant. Matt's previous roles supporting FEMA included a national national strategist helping increase and improve community engagement for FEMA's Risk MAP program, leading efforts to reduce seismic risk in Utah's public schools, designing a machine learning program to better understand local community risk awareness and mitigation motivations, and acting as a subject matter expert to inform rural community engagement. Formerly, Matt was a Vice President with Weber Shandwick, overseeing a 13 state, four office team supporting Verizon Wireless, as well as account and strategy work for brands such as Vail Resorts, Life Time Fitness, Mars Petcare and Bank of America. Matt was the director of conservation outreach for the World Wildlife Fund where he oversaw outreach, policy and stakeholder engagement related to grassland conversion, food security, trans-Arctic shipping and energy development. He's also provided environmental policy, outreach, facilitation and communications counsel to clients such as British Petroleum, Colorado Governor's Energy Office, US Forest Service and Yale University’s Integrated Climate Change Adaptation and Landscape Conservation Planning initiative. Past clients include: General Motors, Vail Resorts, Columbia Sportswear, AG Edwards, Bank of America, Harley Davidson, Softwood Lumber Board, Domtar, MilkPEP (got milk?), Anheuser Busch, Pizza Hut, and others. He earned a double major from Indiana University and a Master’s in environmental policy and sustainable development from University of Denver’s Sturm College of Law, where he finished first in his class.
Listed skills include Strategic Communications, Public Relations, Strategy, Integrated Marketing, and 46 others.