Jeff Blair

Jeff Blair

Email Address jblair@fsu.edu

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Professional Biography Jeff A. Blair has over 30 years of experience in assessing and analyzing complex issues and facilitating meetings designed to build consensus between stakeholder interests, and is the principle and owner of Facilitated Solutions, LLC. In addition, Jeff is retired research faculty at Florida State University (FSU) and served as Associate Director for the FCRC Consensus Center at FSU for twenty-one years. He specializes in facilitation and process design and in addition his work includes situation assessment, strategic planning, and consensus-building among diverse stakeholder interests with divergent perspectives on complex issues. He has worked with federal, state, local government, non-governmental organizations, and private sector representatives to design and implement collaborative approaches to consensus-building, planning, rulemaking, and dispute resolution with an emphasis on stakeholder participation in the planning, design, implementation, and monitoring of policy actions in more than 190 projects and over 2500 meetings. Ongoing projects include serving as process designer, lead facilitator, and conflict resolution consultant for stakeholder groups including: Florida State University’s Apalachicola Basin System Initiative Community Advisory Board tasked with evaluating the adopted Apalachicola Bay System Ecosystem-Based Adaptive Management and Restoration Plan Framework using decision support tools coupled with available and emerging data and research; the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Services’ (UMCES) Global Defense for Coral Reef Wildlife interdisciplinary Research Team (Bailey Wildlife Foundation) to build a system to support corals and coral reef wildlife by creating carbon -neutral habitat and removing carbon dioxide from the air; and Florida Building Commission’s (DBPR) ongoing process of building consensus on all aspects of the Florid Building Code System including facilitating over 1,500 individual meetings for the Commission since 1999 including 69 special issue stakeholder workgroup projects. Recently completed projects include successfully facilitating to consensus and unanimous agreement between diverse stakeholder interests: Design and development of a Priority Issues Workplan and associated Workplan Tracking Flowchart for The Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint Stakeholders (ACFS) who are working to develop consensus on a science-based water supply plan for the ACF Basin; The Apalachicola Basin System Initiative Community Advisory Board on the Apalachicola Bay System Ecosystem-Based Adaptive Management and Restoration Plan Framework (November 2021); The Nature Conservancy’s Pensacola Bay System Stakeholder Working Group on the Oyster Fisheries and Habitat Management Plan for the Pensacola Bay System (May 2021); the USFWS’ Loxahatchee and Hobe Sound NWRs Strategic Alignment Initiative Workplan (December 2019); the USFWS’ Regional Strategic Vision Alignment Initiative on USFWS R4 Strategic Vision Alignment Plan (June 2019); the Suwannee River Partnership Steering Committee (FDACS, FDEP, SRWMD, UF/IFAS) Planning Initiative on Priority Strategic Actions Workplan (August 2018); the North Florida Regional Water Supply Partnership Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SRWMD/SJRWMD/FDEP/FDACS) on the North Florida Regional Water Supply Plan (January 2017); and the Coastal SEES OysterFutures Workgroup on Recommendations for Oyster Management in the Choptank and Little Choptank Rivers (Chesapeake Bay) (May 2018).

Address Line 1 1803 Old Fort Drive

City Tallahassee

State Florida

Zip 32301

Small Business Yes

GSA Schedule Provider No

Federal Employee No

Native Dispute Resolution Network No

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