MATTHEW DANCE, M.A.
ASSOCIATE, FACILITATOR
Matt Dance is an associate facilitator at Fuse, helping to maximize client ideas and find out-of-the-box solutions to challenges.
Matt has 20+ years experience as a facilitator within environmental and urban policy domains. In this role he has managed facilitation and public engagement processes related to electricity generation, vehicle emissions, renewable energy, and climate change. All these projects were focused on, or related to, climate change. As a contractor, Matt has developed and implemented several multi-stakeholder consensus-based engagement processes. For instance, the Coal to Gas Project worked with all levels of government, ENGOs and Industry to negotiate a new NOx and CO2 emission standard for power plants that transition from burning coal to natural gas.
Matt is the past president of the Tomorrow Foundation for a Sustainable Future, and in that role contributed to the conceptual development of Edmonton’s minimum bike grid. He is a former Project and Senior Project Manager with the Clean Air Strategic Alliance (CASA). Matt is a regular presenter to Humanities 101 and is the Vice-Chair of the City of Edmonton’s Naming Committee.
Matt holds a Bachelor of Arts in Geography from Queen’s University, and a Master of Arts in Urban Geography from the University of Alberta.
