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I USED TO BE FOCUSED ON DATA AND SCIENCE. CHARTS, GRAPHS, MODELS THAT TOLD ME HOW THE WORLD WORKED. BUT THAT WAS ONLY HALF THE STORY. THE REAL STORY? PEOPLE. COMMUNITIES. SYSTEMS THAT STUMBLE AND ARGUE AND, ON A GOOD DAY, FIND COMMON GROUND. NOW MY WORK IS ABOUT HELPING THEM MAKE DECISIONS THAT ACTUALLY CHANGE THE FUTURE — NOT THE FUTURE IN THE ABSTRACT, BUT THEIR FUTURE. 

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EARLY YEARS

George grew up on a farm in rural Ohio. His parents weren’t farmers, but they figured it out, and that meant neighbors figured it out with them. Lesson one: community isn’t optional — it’s survival. That’s the throughline. From boardrooms to backroads, from coalitions that span continents to arguments around a kitchen table — survival happens together, or not at all.

PEOPLE & PARTNERSHIPS

No plan works if people don’t. I design processes that bring stakeholders into the room — and keep them there.

 

  • Stakeholder engagement that goes deeper than check-the-box.

 

  • Building partnerships and networks that last past the press release.

 

  • Collective leadership training and capacity building for the water sector.

STORY & STAGE

Sometimes the job is to set the table. Sometimes it’s to hold the mic. I do both.

 

  • Event design and facilitation that creates momentum, not fatigue.

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  • Moderation that keeps the conversation sharp and human.

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  • Public speaking that blends science, story, and a little humor to move the room.

Image by Cristian Palmer

ABOUT

George Schuler is not your standard-issue conservationist. He’s part strategist, part storyteller, part convener — the guy who can walk into a room full of farmers, CEOs, and regulators and somehow get them to stay there long enough to listen. He doesn’t come with a neat label. Call him a peacemaker, an innovator, a reluctant psychologist, a preacher when he has to be, a technologist when the tools demand it. Whatever works to move the room forward.

ROOTS & PRACTICE

This is where I started, and it still shapes everything I do.

 

  • Conservation strategy rooted in the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.

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  • Two decades of hard lessons from rivers, wetlands, and watersheds.

CLOSING

Water may have been my entry point, but people are my passion. If you’re building something — a coalition, a plan, a story — and you need help keeping it human, keeping it moving, and keeping it real, I’d like to hear from you.

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