Name: Essential Skills You Didn't Know You Needed
Start: 2025-02-27T10:30:00-0600
End: 2025-02-27T12:00:00-0600

Thursday February 27, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm CST

Bond/Crown

Bring your notebooks, we're talking about all the things you didn't know you needed to know about leadership, turning your vision into action, aligning resources, and more. This lightning round style professional development session will give you a taste of different topics that will boost your knowledge about how to be a better leader from wherever you are in your organization or career. Learn from experienced WLIA members as they share their favorite tip, trick, or lesson learned.

Speakers

Jennifer Borlick

Geospatial Services Administrator, Rock County

Jennifer Borlick is the Geospatial Services Administrator at Rock County Planning and Development. She is an active member of (WLIA) where she is currently Past-President of WLIA. She has tried several project management and collaborative tools to determine what would work best with... Read More →

Andy Faust

GIS Analyst, North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission

Andy has been with North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission for over 20 years. He is a long time WLIA member and WROC program manager.

Jon Schwichtenberg

GIS Leader, GRAEF

Jon Schwichtenberg is a Past President of WLIA. He is the GIS Manager for GRAEF and has been working in the consulting business for 34 years. Jon has been assisting utilities and communities with Asset Management for over 28 years.

Zach Nienow

Manager - Aerial Mapping, Ayres Associates

Zach manages the aerial mapping group at Ayres Associates. He has been a member of WLIA since 2012 and is a past president. He is the WROC consultant program manager.

Kelly Felton

Cartographer/LIO, Sauk County

Kelly Felton is Cartographer/LIO for the Sauk County Land Information/GIS department. She has worked at Sauk County for 29 years and has served as LIO for the last 20+ years. She has been involved with WLIA throughout that time, participating on various committees, workgroups, task... Read More →

Jeremiah Erickson

GIS Coordinator/LIO, Monroe County

I am in my 19th year with my current employer Monroe County. I have spent about 25 years working with land information or related spatial data-based industries. I graduated from UW-Platteville with a Geography degree in 2000. I am a proud past-president of the WLIA '20-'21 and the... Read More →

Larry Cutforth

GIS Section Supervisor, Wisconsin Dept of Natural Resources

Larry is the GIS Section Supervisor at the WI Department of Natural Resources. He has over 25 years of GIS management experience with state and federal agencies.

Adam Dorn

GIS Administrator, Winnebago County

Adam Dorn is the GIS Administrator in Winnebago County and has served in GIS roles in several other Wisconsin counties and cities over the last 20+ years. He is currently the Chair of the WLIA Judicial Office Privacy Task Force.

Eric Damkot

IS Manager/LIO, Washington County

Eric is a UWGB alum where he majored in biology and environmental sciences. After graduation he joined a GIS program at Washington County that was in its infancy and for the past 25+ years has been involved in nearly all aspects of the county’s growing GIS program. Eric is a WLIA... Read More →

Kimberly Meinert

Land Information Systems Supervisor, Waukesha County

Kim Meinert is the Land Information Systems Supervisor at Waukesha County and LIO. Over the last twenty years at the County, she’s helped support a variety of programs with GIS services. She is also a past Wisconsin Land Information Association board member and is currently on the... Read More →

Michael Koutnik

Michael A. Koutnik Consulting, Owner

I focus on helping conservation and environmental protection organizations apply geographic information systems technology (GIS) to increase their efficiency and effectiveness. With 25 years experience with GIS industry leader Esri, I have worked with many public, private and nonprofit... Read More →

Thursday February 27, 2025 10:30am - 12:00pm CST
Bond/Crown

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