Lawrence Grodeska
Associate Planner
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLawrence Grodeska is an experienced civic designer and planner with 25+ years crafting collaborative strategies, programs, and digital products that strengthen environmental stewardship and community resilience. He co-founded and led CivicMakers to seven-figure recurring revenue, ran cross-sector strategic planning for multiple municipalities, and shipped early open-data mobile services for San Francisco that helped catalyze the Bay Area’s civic tech ecosystem. Comfortable shifting between policy, product, and public-facing roles, he has led citizen product management at Accela, built B2B content programs at Change.org, and served in local environmental agencies. A seasoned facilitator and empathetic leader, he blends systems thinking, regenerative place-based practice, and high-EQ team-building to deliver multi-stakeholder outcomes. Outside work he pursues bioregional organizing and brings a lifelong connection to nature—an ethic seeded in Boy Scouts and expressed through music, biking, and community storytelling.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
8-week training Introduction to Nonviolent Communication Group facilitation and communication, 8-week training Introduction to Nonviolent Communication Group facilitation and communication at Bay Area Nonviolent CommunicationBachelor's Degree Biology, Bachelor's Degree Biology at Rutgers University
Github Skills (1)
php1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
grodeska/client
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:6 pushes, 17 branches in 3 months
grodeska/personas
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:3 pushes in 22 days
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