Ginger R. Adams, IAF-CPF™, CVS®-Life

Ginger Adams has more than 35 years of experience, including 27 years managing and facilitating problem solving, issue resolution, partnering, consensus building, and value engineering workshops.  Focused predominantly on construction industry and governmental agency processes and projects, her experience includes a variety of business processes, building types, infrastructure, and transportation elements.  Ginger has been formally recognized on eight different occasions for the outcomes of her VE workshops, including receiving Commanders’ Coins for two projects for the USACE Alaska District.

 

Ginger has organized, facilitated, and documented more than 190 VM workshops for more than 55 public agencies and private sector organizations throughout the United States and Canada (including 31 for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 4 different districts). Her years in the business and breadth of experience, both managing contracts and facilitating workshops, make her the CVS of choice to manage VM studies that achieve the needs and required functions of projects, while balancing function with the resources required.

 

In 2005, Ginger discovered and joined the International Association of Facilitators (IAF).  In 2006 she achieved certification as a professional facilitator (IAF-CPF™).  Attending IAF conferences and various training programs offered by IAF members, Ginger continues to hone and improve her facilitation skills. She influenced SAVE International to incorporate requirements for facilitation training into their certification program and, at SAVE’s request, developed an 8-hour course in “Facilitation Skills for Value Practitioners” in 2012. Ginger is one of only two people in the world who are both a Certified Value Specialist and Certified Professional Facilitator.

 

Ginger is known for taking relevant tools and techniques from various processes and adapting them to the project and situation at hand. She emphasizes the importance of pre-workshop preparation including, but not necessarily limited to, meeting with workshop sponsors and, if appropriate, stakeholders to define goals and objectives. She has demonstrated a keen ability for listening to all who participate in her workshops, as well as assimilate the information into meaningful and useful outcomes. As a facilitator, she represents third party neutrality, providing the opportunity for everyone involved to have an equal voice. Ginger promotes the active involvement of workshop participants, as opposed to providing answers for them, so that they end the session feeling ownership of the results that were generated.

 

 

Adams & Associates LLC

Fort Collins, CO

 

Telephone

(970) 266-2696 Direct / (970) 222-9505 Mobile