About me
Greg Babinski is a GIS management consultant and founder of GIS Management Consulting Services LLC and the GIS Management Academy™, located in Edmonds, Washington. Between 1998 and 2021 he served as GIS Manager, GIS Finance Manager, and GIS Marketing & Business Development Manager for the King County GIS Center in Seattle. Previously he worked for nine years as GIS Mapping Supervisor for the East Bay Municipal Utility District in Oakland.
He holds an MA in geography from Wayne State University. Greg is a GISP – Certified GIS Professional. Babinski is Past-President of URISA and founder and Past-Chair of URISA’s GIS Management Institute.
He was the original developer of the GIS Capability Maturity Model and co-chaired the committee that developed the Geospatial Management Competency Model. In 2012 he initiated a ground-breaking GIS return on investment study.
In 2019 Greg was awarded an EthicalGEO Fellowship by the American Geographical Society to research and development best practices for applying GIS for equity and social justice. He co-authored a GIS for Equity & Social Justice workshop which he has presented 30 times to more than 700 students.
In addition to GIS consulting, he is a GIS researcher, author, and instructor. He has authored five peer-reviewed articles for the Geographic Information Science and Technology Body of Knowledge. He has also published articles in the URISA Journal, ArcNEWS, the GIS Professional, Government Finance Review, Washington GIS Summit (which he founded in 2005), and other publications.
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. For the GIS Management Academy he has developed a portfolio of 15 online workshops which have been attended by more than 660 students from around the world.
In his spare time Greg likes ‘…hiking steep, narrow and dangerous trails that lead high above the clouds to awesome views’.
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