Ron Whitmore, Phd, Aicp Email & Phone Number

Planner, Integrator, Innovator, and Leader advancing Community SustainabilityI address complex challenges and advance sustainability with outcome-focused plans and strategic implementation of policies, programs, and projects.I am committed to democratic planning processes that deliver multi-goal co-benefits. I strategically design participatory, knowledge-driven planning processes, tailoring inclusive engagement to involve the right stakeholders, at the right time, in the right way. I then combine local and analytical expertise into decision tools that clarify trade-offs, empower stakeholders, and maximize transparency in policy making. I am especially skilled at synthesizing multidisciplinary information into coherent, practical strategies. I am an avid learner across varied sustainable development fields, and I am adept at seeing the “big picture” while focusing on the details. I apply a holistic framework to understanding people and place and to crafting precise, user-oriented roadmaps to their preferred future.I focus on systemic relationships and strategies that deliver on ecological, equity, and economic objectives. I have experience and expertise in a range of fields, including land use, natural resources, hazard mitigation, climate action and adaptation, energy, housing, economic development, environmental justice, food systems, capital budgeting, and organizational and leadership development. I am a natural, resourceful, enterprising leader whom others trust to get the job done. I provide executive management, facilitate outcome-focused meetings, broker partnerships, mentor staff, secure grant funds, and create new programs. I navigate comfortably across community, government, and higher education environments. I am known for high standards grounded in exceptional analytical, organizational, and writing skills, and colleagues particularly appreciate my self-directed, thorough, disciplined work style. Consulting clients consistently praise my competence, trustworthiness, communication, timeliness, and professionalism.

Listed skills include Community Outreach, Government, Community Development, Grant Writing, and 41 others.