Laurence Sherman
GDCR Instructor
| Degrees: | B.A.E. (Washington State), M.Arch. (Pennsylvania), M.C.P. (Pennsylvania), Cert.Negotiations (Harvard/MIT) |
Larry Sherman is an architect, urban planner and a founding Director of the IBI Group, a multi-disciplinary consulting and design firm based in Toronto. His professional practice includes facilitating institutional, government and community organizations in collaborative planning and negotiated policy setting. In the mid 80s, he trained at the MIT/Harvard Program on Negotiations with Dr. Lawrence Susskind. His work includes process design, facilitation and mediation, as well as training and coaching public sector groups in multi-party consensus-based problem solving, conflict resolution and decision making.
Experience
- IBI Group (1974 – to date)
Affiliations
- Consultant, Consensus Building Institute (CBI), Cambridge, Massachusetts
- Founding Director, Society for Conflict Resolution in Ontario (SCRO)
- Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (RAIC)
- Founding Board Member, Carleton University Centre for Conflict Education and Research (CCER)
- Past Chair, Board of Directors, Common Ground Cooperative
- Former Board of Governors, Trinity College School
Representative Experience
- Facilitation/mediation of government and public interest groups dealing with visioning, policy co-ordination and collaborative problem-solving both within an agency and in its relation to others, including projects for the Ontario Facilitator’s Office, Ontario Management Board Secretariat, Ontario Environmental Assessment Board, Federal Siting Task Force on Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management, the Recycling Council of Ontario, the Federal-Provincial Forum of Labour Market Ministers, Environment Canada and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and the Lower Grand River Land Trust, Canada Lands Company, the Ontario Office of the Solicitor General, Health Canada, the Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency, Correctional Service Canada, the Public Service Alliance of Canada, the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa, and the National Science & Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).
- Facilitating inter-governmental agreements to collaborate in development and co-ordinate implementation funding and development staging including the Elk Lake Timber Management Strategy (MNR), a collaborative transit strategy for the Highway 7/407 corridor (MTO) and a master plan for developing Lake Louise Village in Banff National Park (Parks Canada).
- Facilitation/mediation of land use, environmental and economic development plans for institutions and communities throughout Canada, including assistance to Iroquois Falls, Peterborough, the National Capital Commission, the City of Toronto and the City of Hamilton, Algonquin College, Humber College, University of California at Riverside and the University of Toronto, facilitation of the national Labour-Management Task Force on Transit Competitiveness, City of Vaughan, Town of Markham, Region of Peel and Bermuda Habitat for Humanity and the Bermuda Institute for Social Stability.
- Facilitation of partnering workshops in the construction industry, involving public agencies and institutions developing facilities, and their project design/construction teams on behalf of the Ontario Ministry of Transportation (highway projects) and Public Works and Government Services Canada (Parliamentary Library renovations).
- Advice to the Government of Ontario, Management Board Secretariat, regarding conflict resolution practices within and between ministries throughout government.
- Design and facilitation of mediated processes for settling municipal conflicts between local governments, public groups and developers before the Ontario Municipal Board.
- Design of approaches to advising and training elected municipal officials in alternative dispute resolution and collaborative problem-solving.