Partners
Munrovia Pictures
Munrovia Pictures and Creator/Owner Greg DeLiso are partnering with Project Innovations to bring projects to life by documenting the processes that lead to successful projects. Video clips and film documentaries are an excellent way to showcase Project Innovations’ partnering and collaboration projects that rely heavily on thought leader and stakeholder involvement.
Greg is an accomplished film maker who attended the New York Film Academy’s one-year directing program and graduated in 2005.
Munrovia Picture’s, “Fun With Henrik Zetterberg” video went viral garnering over 50,000 views in two days. The success of the videos spawned “Fake Henrik Zetterberg”, a twelve episode web series that was launched on October 26, 2011 and has been featured on Yahoo Sports and The Huffington Post.
In 2011, Greg completed Canada’s Best Kept Secret, his first feature length documentary as director, editor, baker, cinematographer and producer. The film chronicles the life of RD Lawrence, a Canadian author/naturalist integral in the green movement of the 20th century.
In December 2013, Munrovia Pictures created a video that introduced the Sanitary Sewer Wet Weather Evaluation Project to the Ann Arbor public.
Jo Anna (J.T.) Trierweiler
J.T. is a management consultant specializing in strategic planning, public participation, and meeting facilitation for over 20 years. In 2013 she formed JT Consulting Firm LLC.
Drawing on her broad background J.T. brings knowledge, energy, and a playful spirit to help guide nonprofit corporations, businesses and municipalities to re-think, restructure, and revitalize their organizations. She encourages the creation and implementation of strategic plans that build resiliency using traditional and non-traditional methodologies including, visual arts, storytelling, and scenarios. As a member of the International Association of Public Participation (IAP2), she also believes passionately that those who will be affected by change should be involved in the thinking, planning and decision making.
Primary Services:
- Strategic plan facilitation utilizing traditional and nontraditional interactive methods including focus groups, interviews, and other improvisational approaches. Recent clients: MSU Center for Regional Food Systems; Michigan Food and Farming Systems; City of Durand MI; and Redford Township District Library.
- Workgroup facilitation to resolve conflicts, build collaboration and increase effectiveness. Recent clients: Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) Customer Outreach Water and Wastewater Best Practices Workgroups.
- Executive coaching and succession planning to help people identify their talents, address blockages and find satisfying and rewarding applications. Clients in telecommunications, municipal government, environmental engineering, law and medicine.
- Public engagement design and facilitation that builds sustainable public participation by communicating “early and often”, respecting the community’s needs and interest, building trust, and clear decision making processes. Recent clients: Grand Rapids “U to Zoo” subarea plan; Grand Rapids Michigan Street Corridor Plan; Capital Area Transit Authority Michigan/Grand River Avenue Transportation Study, and Kalamazoo Master Plan.
- Executive Training that enhance leader’s listening, communication, project management, and interpersonal skills. Programs examples: Managing People, Projects and Processes; The Power of Listening; Perfecting Your Presentation Skills; Telling Your Story; and The Art of Leadership.
Professional Experience
J.T’s thirty (30) years of expansive experience enhances her ability to draw out creative ideas and develop clear implementation steps. Prior to forming her own company, J.T was a partner and senior consultant with Project Innovations. Her professional background also includes: co-founding an educational software company, the Denali Project; establishing charter public schools through the Leona Group; serving as the board liaison and community outreach specialist for the Michigan Partnership for New Education; serving as a legislative analyst with the Michigan House of Representatives on insurance and social welfare issues; managing insurance claims for an HMO and a multi-line insurer; and early in her career she taught pre-school and elementary school.