Who We Are

It’s hard to box us in with regular job descriptions. In conventional terms, we’re decision analysts and planners. But labels aside, we’re really just an endlessly curious band of problem solvers.

Principals

Lee Failing
Principal

Lee is a Principal at Compass with a knack for getting the right science and the right people working together on hard problems.

Dan Ohlson
Principal

Dan is a Principal at Compass where he works on environmental risk management problems that involve multiple resource use conflicts, scientific uncertainty, and environmental and economic trade-off analyses.

Graham Long
Principal

Graham is a Principal at Compass with over 20 years’ experience helping corporations, governments and NGOs make important environmental policy decisions.

Michael Harstone
Principal

Michael is a Principal at Compass with fourteen years experience designing and facilitating scientific review committees and public planning processes.

Sally Rudd
Principal

Sally is a Principal at Compass, bringing a wide breadth of experience from Aboriginal and stakeholder consultation to energy and greenhouse gas emissions modeling.

Philip Halteman
Principal

Philip is a Principal at Compass Resource Management with a background in landscape ecology, water quality, and decision support.

Associates

Brian Crawford
Associate

Rae Failing
Associate

Maya Guttmann
Associate

Victoria Hemming
Associate

Alejandra Ibarra
Associate

Alan MacDougall
Associate

Katie O’Donnell
Associate

Natasha Overduin
Associate

Clayton Schroeder
Software Developer

Rita Wong
Office Coordinator