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Consultant Team

Gartner Lee Limited

A team of consultants led by Gartner Lee Limited has been retained by the TRCA to conduct the coordinated Environmental Assessment for the Don Mouth Naturalization and Port Lands Flood Protection Project.

Gartner Lee is a professional services company providing environmental science, planning and engineering consulting services. Since its founding in 1973, they have established offices across Canada and successfully completed thousands of projects for domestic and international clients in more than 30 countries around the world. Gartner Lee will provide the lead on Project Management.

Gartner Lee is leading a team of consultant firms including:

Nicole Swerhun

Nicole Swerhun was retained to provide professional facilitation services and assist with the design and implementation of the public consultation process.

Nicole offers her clients and their stakeholders ten years of experience providing strategic decision making and process advice, as well as third-party facilitation services. Her work focuses almost exclusively on the public sector, and her clients have included all levels of government as well as local and international public agencies.

Over the last two years, Nicole has worked as an independent professional, retained to lead major public engagement and stakeholder consultation projects for the cities of Toronto, Norfolk, and New Orleans, the Province of Ontario, and the Multilateral Fund Secretariat for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. These projects have focused on a number of complex and potentially controversial issues, including affordable housing, public transit policy, waterfront redevelopment, flood protection and river mouth naturalization, management of heritage assets, and how to provide effective supports to developing countries striving to comply with international environmental commitments.