Dan Adams Professional Experience

Daniel R. Adams, M.O.B., is a mediator/facilitator, public involvement specialist, and organizational development consultant. His practice is shared between private industry and agency work. Mr. Adams is known for his ability to look at problems from a holistic approach that incorporates his expertise in business, conflict resolution, organizational behavior, and environmental public policy. Mr. Adams has mediated over 100 cases across the United States.

Ahtanum Creek Pathway: Union Gap, Washington (2003-2004). Yakima County and surrounding communities have seen non-motorized connectivity as a key element in community revitalization. One of the most progressive pathways in the county is found in the valley called The Greenway. To connect the small but growing community of Union Gap to this system, the city of Union Gap retained the Langdon Group to facilitate this process. Key components included work with the Yakima Indian Nation, Department of Ecology, EPA, Bonneville Power, local schools, local businesses, local residents, and the community at large. Dan designed and implemented this effective public involvement process.

Auger Falls, Community Wastewater Reclamation Legacy Project: Twin Falls, Idaho (2004-2005). A heritage project of the Twin Falls community to maximize the beneficial use of the city’s water and other natural resources to protect, preserve, rehabilitate and enhance the environment for the community as a whole through effective and creative treatment of wastewater at the Augur Falls Site (Snake River). Another side goal of the city of Twin Falls was to provide an outdoor experience that can be enjoyed by Twin Falls citizens and visitors now and in the future. The Langdon Group designed a public involvement process to meet this goal and be inclusive and mutually beneficial for the entire community. Open houses, citizen advisory groups, agency relations, steering committees, and client feedback were critical to this project.

Buhl EPA and DEQ Snake River Wastewater Treatment: Buhl, Idaho (2004-2005). In January of 2005, the City of Buhl was fined $38,000 by the EPA for not complying with the discharge limits in their NPDES permit. In the fine, the city was cited for phosphorus and solids being released into the Snake River. The goal of the city is to provide a safe, efficient and cost effective wastewater system that complies with the regulatory criteria. The least expensive option would cost millions to build. This small rural community with an older demographic had to create a community solution to this problem before pursuing funding. This was accomplished through designing a public involvement process that included interviews with key industries, area residents, and agencies. An open house, the formation of a citizen advisory committee (whom selected a preferred alternative), presentations to local civic organizations, and presentations to funding agencies and city council were all key to this project.

Clinton 2000 West Environmental Assessment: Clinton, Utah (2004). Dan is facilitated the public involvement process for this Clinton City study, which proposes a widened roadway through a particularly high-traffic city route. This project involves heavy coordination with the Utah Department of Transportation who has an Environmental Impact Statement planned for a larger area that encompasses Clinton City’s study area, and facilitating public involvement and conflict management with corridor businesses and residents.

Dover U.S. 95 Access: Dover, Idaho (2004-2006). The City of Dover currently has one access point to U.S. 95. This one access point is unsafe, hazardous in case of evacuation, and does not allow for future development planned for the city through a major home site development. The city has sought the services of J-U-B Engineers and the Langdon Group to facilitate a public involvement process as well as incorporate the needs of various agencies and private businesses.

Hyde Park & North Logan Corridor Environmental Impact Statement: Logan, Utah (2003-2005) The Langdon Group with J-U-B Engineers has jointly created a public involvement process that includes facilitation of a technical advisory team, steering committee, citizen advisory meetings, and open houses as well as neighborhood meetings and one-on-one interviews. The entire public process has been designed to meet the requirements of the NEPA process as well as the needs of the two cities involved and their various residents, schools, and businesses.

McArthur Lake/U.S. 95 Environmental Impact Statement (Concept): Bonners Ferry, Idaho (2005-Present). The intent of the project is to provide motorists with a safer and smoother drive on this section of Idaho’s only north-south connecting highway, and simultaneously improve an important wildlife crossing. Potential changes may include reducing the severity of the curves at Deep Creek and adding a new multi-span bride, which would provide a safe underpass for wildlife. Dan has designed a public involvement process that will allow area residents, local business, elected officials, joint county involvement, and agencies the ability to assist in the conceptual design of this critical safety project. Unique to this process is the identification of a major wildlife corridor that crosses the highway at the project location and garners attention nationwide from special interest groups ranging from grizzly bear reintroduction to wildlife and highway crossing safety. This is an Idaho Transportation Department Project

Sandpoint Wastewater Treatment Facilities Plan and Regionalization Process: Sandpoint, Idaho (2005-Present). The City of Sandpoint has worked to continually improve wastewater collection and treatment service for current ratepayers. Currently, growth in the area has given the City tremendous opportunities and challenges resulting in a need to determine how much growth they will be able to service. The City is under increasing pressure to expand the wastewater service area. The challenge is to determine how to best cost-effectively expand or maintain the existing service area. The Langdon Group has formed a citizen advisory committee that is exploring the alternatives of improving the facility at the existing location, creating a new facility in the city, or creation of a regional facility most likely not located within the city limits of Sandpoint.

Schweitzer Cutoff Road Environmental Assessment: Schweitzer/Sandpoint/Ponderay, Idaho (2006-Present). The Langdon Group is part of a team of consultants that is looking to make roadway improvements to this critical intersection and collector arterial of Sandpoint and Ponderay. The Langdon Group is designing and implementing a public involvement process that will be used in the conceptual design and design of this project.

Walla Walla Long Term Arterial Plan: Walla Walla, Washington (2003-2004). The Langdon Group worked jointly with the cities of College Place and Walla Walla as well as Walla Walla County to design a public involvement process that helped the community to understand the need for a long term arterial plan. This plan when complete was added to the comprehensive plan of these three communities. Creating a process that was inclusive of many stakeholders was uniquely challenging since the topic of “arterial plan” does not incite public excitement! The process designed by the Langdon Group involved creative approaches to increased public participation.

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36 Transportation Corridor, Boulder, CO (2003-2004). Serving as a public involvement team member addressing transportation alternatives on the U.S. Highway 36 Transportation Corridor. The corridor runs from Denver to Longmont, Colorado and involves transportation alternatives such as bicycle, commuter rail, HOV lanes, etc. The wide array of stakeholders includes Colorado Department of Transportation, FHWA, RTD, multiple cities, counties, and private industry.

Southern Orange County Transportation Infrastructure Improvement Program (SOCTIIP), Irvine, CA (2003-2004). Serving as part of a CDR team facilitating an environmental review process to study and evaluate a range of selected alternatives in southern Orange County. Dan has helped facilitate meetings and provide process advice to members of the SOCTIIP Collaborative, which includes representatives of TCA, Caltrans, FHWA, USACE, USEPA, USFWS, and the Marine Corps. The tasks of the Collaborative are to review and comment on the technical consultants' scopes of work, to review technical reports, to develop consensus on evaluation criteria for comparing alternatives, and to develop consensus on the preferred alternative.

Environmental Public Policy Case Development, Department of Interior, Washington, DC (2002). Dan had the unique opportunity to work with senior DOI staff to develop case summaries of major environmental public policy cases in the United States from 1995-2002. These cases were used to teach senior DOI staff regarding best practices and tools for managing scientific and technical information in conflict.

Free Speech T.V., Allenspark, Colorado (2003). Dan along with Suzanne Ghais, co-facilitating the leadership and cross organizational representatives of Free Speech T.V. (FSTV). FSTV is a highly diverse, “liberated workplace” based in Boulder, Colorado that provides alternative programming representing independent filmmakers, political formats, etc.

Listening To the City, New York, NY (2002). Participated as a facilitator in the largest public dialogue in

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history. The facilitation involved over 5000 stakeholders and over 500 facilitators discussing the redevelopment of Lower Manhattan after 9/11.

RTD Bus Transit Facility – Community Involvement Facilitation, Denver, Colorado (2003). Dan led facilitation amongst community members of a Western Denver community. The purpose of the facilitation was to help community members to identify attributes, values, local history, and characteristics of the local community and then to identify how these characteristics could best be reflected in art that would be present in a newly proposed RTD Bus Transit Facility.

Champion Safe Company, Provo, Utah (2002-2003). Dan provided executive coaching for the CEO of a start up manufacturing company in Utah after first performing a culture audit and organizational assessment. The assessment and culture audit were important in that the workforce was made up in large part by a Latino population. The case is illustrative of a growing change in

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business as diversity of language and culture continue to change the workplace.

Deseret Industries, Orem, Utah (2002). The purpose of Deseret Industries is to train disadvantaged citizens in business skills so that they at some point will be able to be employed in the regular workforce. The challenge for the organization is to train this unique populace while providing excellent customer service and quality of product. After providing an organizational analysis and culture audit Dan coached the management in best practices in managing this unique workforce.

iArchives, Provo, Utah (2002-2003). Dan was part of a consulting team made up of former McKenzie, Monitor, and Anderson consultants in guiding a start-up technology firm in securing additional venture capital and in identifying organizational strength and weakness around market position, brand, and competitive advantage. Dan worked directly with the CEO to identify next steps, how to manage internal and external change, and how to achieve altruistic and monetary organizational goals.

Since 1998, Dan has served as a mediator in numerous business, environmental, public policy, and organizational disputes. Dan has also given back to his local community through volunteer work as a community mediator and dispute resolution speaker and mentor.

Due to the confidential nature of mediation and to preserve confidences with past and current clients, Dan prefers to not list the actual cases. Suffice it to say, Dan has mediated over 100 cases in 14 states ranging in topics from:

For additional information on mediation style and case examples, please contact Dan directly at 208-870-8612.

Since 1998, Dan has worked as a conflict resolution and public involvement trainer with Resolutions Inc. (Bend, OR), Bridgewaters Inc. (Eugene, OR), and CDR Associates (Boulder, CO). His training work has been done throughout the

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in transportation, endangered species, organizational behavior, and change management.

Coaching (1998-2004). Performed 40+ hours coaching during numerous conflict resolution and organizational change training courses.

Executive Coaching, Boulder, CO (2003). This 40 hour course offers an approach to Executive Coaching that focuses on confidence building, dealing effectively with change and transition, conflict management, effective communication, and strategic decision-making. Mr Adams Taught how to offer skills and techniques that enable managers and leaders to get the most from their colleagues in terms of enthusiasm, performance, loyalty and honesty. Taught techniques for helping leaders and managers to improve listening skills, deal with strong emotions, ask powerful questions, facilitate supportive dialogue, solve difficult problems and solicit honest and critical feedback. Taught how to help people face conflict creatively and how to turn conflict from a threat into an opportunity.

The Mediation Process, Boulder, CO (2003-2004). This 40 hour seminar presents a step-by-step approach to the mediation process. It emphasizes the concepts, strategies, and skills neutral third parties can use in resolving conflicts. The program includes several simulated mediation exercises on workplace, community, and environmental conflicts that enable participants to practice the skills learned in the program with individual feedback from CDR coaches (experienced mediators).

Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Leadership Training for Bank Examiners and Federal Reserve Board Leadership (2003). Following the successful Management Skills program created in 1996, the Federal Reserve asked CDR to design an advanced, follow-up course to assist leaders in dealing with change within the System. Dan serves as a consultant and trainer for a four-day course with co-trainers from within the Federal Reserve System delivering approximately eight programs per year. Programs teach concepts of leading from the middle, organizational change, understanding and managing typical roles in teams and organizations, transitioning from management to leadership, etc.

Federal Highway Administration Public Involvement Training, Rochester, NY (2003). Along with Partner Louise Smart in provided 40 hours of training to FHWA staff in managing public involvement.

Sage Grouse Reintroduction: Wyoming Department of Agriculture, Wyoming Department of Fish and Game, Casper, WY (2003).

The 2003 workshop focused on facilitation skills. Dan and Dan Dozier conducted facilitation and effective meeting training for state and federal employees in preparation for regional meetings to be held throughout the state of Wyoming concerning the restoration and reintroduction of sage grouse.

Facilitation and Effective Meetings: Larimer County, Fort Collins, CO (2003). This course offers basic training in effective meeting management and in internal and external facilitation skills for Larimer County employees. The course helps participants to analyze their personal attributes and look critically at how they manage facilitation when things are going well and when things do not go well or according to plan. Instruction then takes place regarding how to manage personal assumptions, how to facilitate others who may be struggling with personal assumptions, and how to facilitate for efficient and productive results.

Crisis Management Approaches and Strategies for Responding to an Angry Public, US Bureau of Reclamation, US Fish & Wildlife Service and Bureau of Indian Affairs, Albuquerque, New Mexico (2003). In the face of extreme water shortages that effected New Mexico municipal water users, farmers, tribes and fish protected by the Endangered Species Act during 2003, CDR staff designed and conducted this workshop in Albuquerque. Among the questions that were discussed were (1) current status of water supply and public reactions; (2) situations, incidents that the staffs of the three agencies were facing and staff morale; (3) communication within agencies, among agencies, between agencies and the public. The program focused on training to help staff address this crisis and consultation on internal and public communication strategies.

Silvery Minnow and Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) Managing Conflict Training, Albuquerque, New Mexico (2003). After the U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled that a federal agency can send water from a New Mexico reservoir to the Rio Grande to aid the endangered silvery minnow Dan served as a co-trainer to provide conflict resolution training to BOR staff.

Cactus and Tropicals, Salt Lake City, Utah (2002). Dan, as part of a consulting team, was retained to perform a cultural assessment of this Salt Lake City company. The purpose of the assessment was to aid the president in looked at assumptions of the organizations strengths and weaknesses around leadership to determine the ease of transitioning from the founder/president to a new leader and ownership structure. It is our belief that one of the most significant challenges to organizations is when they make the transition from either a founding partnership model or long term leadership model to the “next generation.” Dan has a wide range of experience in addressing this type of transition especially around potential conflict that appears to be inherent in many organizational transitions or partnerships.

International Association of Public Participation, Inter Mountain West Chapter Leadership Council (2005-Present)

Association for Conflict Resolution, Organizational Conflict Management Section, Special Projects Chair (2003-2005)