Julie leads ISG’s Environmental Group bringing over 25 years of professional experience working in a leadership capacity to help clients identify and implement environmental solutions. As the former Governor’s appointee to the Lessard-Sams Outdoor Heritage Council, Julie helps public and private partners evaluate and comply with environmental requirements to ensure successful project outcomes and create more sustainable environments. Julie has a passion for engaging with communities and facilitating authentic conversations about conserving and managing their community, economic, and environmental resources. She takes a fresh approach to project delivery as she strives to improve the quality of life throughout the communities that ISG serves, and ensures smart planning to provide sustainability well into the future. With an impressive resume, Julie’s value and expertise is briefly described in the following list: -Ambitious leadership in water resource management, including policy, planning, restoration, protection, and implementation programs. -Development of innovative market-based conservation programs that improved watershed resiliency, expand policy options for regulated entities, and obtained multiple benefits for habitat, groundwater, and communities. -Knowledge of federal and state environmental policy and development of rules and permitting programs at state and local government levels, including working with stakeholder groups and regulating agencies to establish performance standards and enforcement policies.