Lee is a founding partner at Compass and has dedicated her career to improving the quality and transparency of public decisions. As a decision analyst and facilitator, she specializes in helping people work through complex choices involving natural resources and the environment. She is particularly well known for her work in multi-use water systems, where the use of structured decision making, adaptive management and interest-based negotiation intersect. More recently she has focused on working with Indigenous and crown governments and leaders to co-create new pathways to reconciliation and shared decision making.
Lee is an adjunct professor in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University. Co-author of the widely-cited book Structured Decision Making: A practical guide for environmental management choices (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), her latest work, The Decision Playbook, aims to bring collaborative decision making skills into school classrooms.
Lee holds a Masters in Resource Management (MRM) from Simon Fraser University and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Manitoba.