Louise Smart

Louise Smart

Email Address lsmart@mediate.org

Website http://www.mediate.org

Professional Biography Louise Smart combines her background in planning with over 20 years of dispute resolution experience to make her an effective facilitator, mediator, and trainer in environmental and public policy decision making and conflict resolution.  Her cases have involved: transportation decisions, management of interstate water resources, reduction of volatile organic compounds, wetlands avoidance and mitigation, cleanup of Superfund and other contaminated sites, sand and gravel mining, flood damage reduction, air quality, permitting processes, nuclear waste management, historic preservation, and housing strategies.  She is effective in bringing together governmental policy makers and regulators, industry representatives, legal advisors, technical experts, environmental advocates, and the interested public to build consensus on environmental and planning issues.  She has earned a reputation as a facilitator who brings energy and focus as well as process expertise to help groups maintain momentum and clarity as they proceed to consensus on complex issues.  As a trainer, her hallmark has been the customization of training material to the everyday world of clients so that training participants can relate to the skills presented and apply them to the specific and immediate challenges they face.  She has designed and conducted Training for Trainers to enable organizations to build cost-effective in-house training capacity.

City Boulder

State Colorado

Zip 80302

Phone 303-442-7367

Fax 303-442-7442

Federal Employee No

Total Cases Last 10 Years 23