Greg Babinski has 37 years experience in GIS management. For 24 years he held various Management roles for the King County GIS Center in Seattle, including 20 years responsibility for GIS budgeting, financial planning, financial management, and client services management. Before that he worked for nine years as GIS Mapping Supervisor for the East Bay Municipal Utility District in Oakland. In 2021 he launched the GIS Management Academy and GIS Management Consulting Services.

He holds an MA in geography from Wayne State University. He is a GISP – Certified GIS Professional. He is Past-President of URISA and was founder and Past-Chair of URISA’s GIS Management Institute. In 2005 he founded The Summit – the Washington State GIS Newsletter. In 2019 Greg was awarded an EthicalGEO Fellowship by the American Geographical Society. In addition to GIS consulting, he is a GIS researcher, author, and instructor.

Greg was the original developer of the GIS Capability Maturity Model and co-chaired the committee that developed the Geospatial Management Competency Model adopted by the US Department of Labor.

In 2012 Greg co-authored a pioneering GIS return on investment study for King County.

He has spoken about GIS management across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. Greg has taught GIS for Public Policy as an instructor with the University of Washington Evans Graduate School of Public Administration. He has authored chapters in various books about GIS management, five articles in the Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge, and many articles in ArcNews, The GIS Professional, The Summit, and other publications.

Greg’s portfolio of a dozen GIS Management Academy workshops have been presented to 739 students since 2022. His half-day GIS for Equity and Social Justice workshop has been presented 30 times to more than 700 people.

In his spare time Greg likes ‘…hiking steep, narrow and dangerous trails that lead high above the clouds to awesome views.’