Blair Feltmate

Business Development Lead | Project Manager

An integral part of the James Laurence Group team, Blair provides strategic engagement support, writing, design, event coordination and project management.

Passionate about the role proper engagement and transparent communication can have in empowering communities and stakeholders, Blair’s aim is to produce dynamic communication materials and engagement strategies that foster productive dialogue and empower communities to make sustainable choices.

Blair has experience in project and event coordination, public comment tracking and analysis, and communications and engagement strategy with a variety of projects across industries. He has supported the delivery of knowledge transfer sessions designed to facilitate community insight into resource development, produced materials to support Collective Impact projects and implemented engagement strategy through open houses, community forums and public meetings.

In addition to project work, Blair leads business development, branding and operations for James Laurence Group.

social impact, communications, engagement, sustainability, public consultation

Measuring Social Impact? Here's How

If you've been involved in a major infrastructure project in the last ten years, chances are you've been asked to consider its social impact. For engineers and technical specialists, this can be a daunting task since many of the rules and the tools you've been trained to rely on simply don't apply.

Building strong projects and resilient communities

One of the things I like best about building workshops is the discipline required to sort what I believe to be true into words and boxes that make sense to other kinds of thinkers.

This week, I helped deliver a workshop on corporate social risk for engineers and geoscientists who create large infrastructure and resource projects.

community engagement, public consultation, sustainability, collective impact coach, collective impact

What is Collective Impact and how does it work?

Broadly defined, Collective Impact is an approach to social challenges that are too complex for one organization to address on its own.

Through the Collective Impact process, multiple organizations work together to achieve big goals like feeding the hungry, increasing literacy and finding homes for the homeless.

user experience, community engagement, communications, consulting, UX

Thoughts on User Experience (UX)

User Experience – or ‘UX’ as the technology world calls it – refers to how a person feels when interfacing with a system or product. Typically, this term has been reserved for techies who need to design products and systems people use and value. In the tech world, UX Designers are the specialists responsible for delivering UX.

Today, UX is making an impact on all aspects of corporate society. With the average North American exposed to about 3,000 ads every day, companies are looking for new ways to up their competition – and enhancing UX is the hot new trend.

There’s nowhere UX is more important than in the world of community engagement.

Play It Forward

There's so many great non profits in BC and so much creative talent!

The team at Cineworks got it right when they put those two things together and created Play it Forward - matching good causes and filmmakers to create powerful campaigns that help spread the word.

The voice you take risk to share

My very good friend Michelle Pockey has found her voice. I don’t mean she was silent before, not by any measure, but in the last eight months her insights are laser sharp, her vision is acute, her commentary is finely tuned and, most important of all, her audience is ready to listen.