Featured Associate:
Michael T. DeGrosky
Over 20 years' experience as a
supervisor, manager and leader
Experienced interagency fire professional and volunteer
firefighter with more than 20 years on the job in the wildland and
municipal fire services. Extensive background in public policy and
inter-governmental affairs. Skilled at:
- organizing work
- managing multiple tasks, priorities and projects
- effecting consensus, cooperation and teamwork
- leading, directing, monitoring and evaluating large,
decentralized and multi-disciplined workforces
- achieving organizational goals and resolving operational
problems
Trained and practiced mediator and process facilitator with
experience in alternative dispute resolution, collaborative problem
solving, consensus building and strategic planning.
Experience includes tenure as a program manager, wildland and
structure fire professional, business manager, entrepreneur,
non-profit executive and non-profit trustee. Extensive experience
building cooperation between federal, state and local government,
planning boards, elected officials and the public. Accomplished at
establishing and leading teams of multi-disciplinary and
interdisciplinary personnel, including laborers, firefighters,
project and unit supervisors, support and clerical staff, technical
professionals and consultants, including up to 700 operational
personnel under fire emergency circumstances.
Experienced instructor, course coordinator, training developer,
officer and consultant
Instructor training and certification by:
- The National Fire Academy
- National Wildfire Coordinating Group
- The Center for Leadership Studies
- the American Red Cross
- and others
Recognized training professional with over three thousand hours
of classroom instruction and coordination experience.
Adjunct Instructor: Central Wyoming College.
Member: American
Society for Training and Development
Trained and practiced group facilitator
Experienced in facilitated learning, collaborative problem
solving and decision making, consensus building, strategic and
project planning. Trained to assist groups to learn cooperatively,
meet effectively, develop their goals, solve problems, make
decisions collaboratively and produce implementable results.
Extensive experience conducting focus groups, individual interviews
and stakeholder surveys in the conduct of field research and
strategic planning.
Workshop and instructional design
Also qualified to design and manage Search Conferences and
Participative Design Workshops, methods for planning and managing
participative events that enable large groups to collectively create
a plan that planning group members themselves will implement.
Trained and accomplished mediator
Experienced in business, workplace and public settings. Received
training in Alternative Dispute Resolution/Mediation from Texas Tech
University, the Conflict Resolution Training Institute, the Montana
Consensus Council and Square Trade, Inc. Specially trained to open
channels of communication between parties to help them understand,
define and resolve misunderstandings and conflict. Extensive
experience interviewing and facilitating communication between
individuals in informal settings.
Seasoned community volunteer and non-profit board member
- Past President: International Association of Wildland Fire
- Volunteer firefighter
- Member: City-County Planning Board
- Museum trustee and volunteer
- Recycling and waste reduction board member
- Participant and organizer: community leadership programs
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