James Creighton

James L. Creighton is the President of Creighton & Creighton, Inc. Creighton has been in the public participation field since 1972, and has designed or conducted nearly 300 public participation programs for more than 50 Federal, state and local agencies, public utilities and private sector companies.

Creighton was the founding President of the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2). He has also been involved in conducting public participation and dispute resolution training in Russia, the Republic of Georgia, Egypt and Brazil.

He is the author of The Public Involvement Manual (Abt Books/ University Press, 1981), and the more recent Involving Citizens in Community Decision Making (Program for Community Problem Solving, National Civic League, 1992) as well as more than 30 agency and organizational manuals and guides in public participation, partnering, dispute resolution, organizational change, and risk communication. He was the principal author of EPA's Project XL Stakeholder Involvement Guide and the Common Sense Initiative Stakeholder Involvement Workgroup's report on EPA's public involvement program. He is also co-author of Sites for Our Solid Waste: A Guidebook for Effective Public Involvement, and conducted public involvement nationally for EPA's 208 Program.

From 1988-1998, Dr. Creighton headed a team of nationally recognized experts in dispute resolution that provided assistance to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the use of alternative dispute resolution techniques (ADR) as an alternative to litigation. The Corps ADR program won the Hammer Award from the Secretary of Defense. As part of this program, Creighton oversaw a team of the nation's leading ADR consulting firms who developed training courses, edited a series of techniques pamphlets, and provided direct consultation to the Corps program.

Other books Creighton has authored or co-authored include: How Loving Couples Fight (Aslan, 1998); Cyber Meeting: How to Link People and Technology in Your Organization, (AMACOM: American Management Association, 1997); Guide to Social Assessment: A Framework for Assessing Social Change (Westview, 1984, and Getting Well Again (J. P. Tarcher, 1978; Bantam, 1980), which has been translated into seventeen languages, and has sold nearly 1,000,000 copies worldwide. While promoting his books Creighton has appeared on more than 100 radio and television shows including The View with Barbara Walters, the Sally Jessy Raphael Show, the Montel Williams Show, and the ABC Home Show.