Dr. Quinn Shurtliff is a Conservation Coach, certified by the Conservation Coaches Network to teach and facilitate the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. Since 2013, he has trained over 550 natural resource professionals from 5 continents how to apply the principles and tools of the Conservation Standards to their projects. Dr. Shurtliff has coached and mentored teams in project planning from a diverse suite of organizations, including The Nature Conservancy, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Puget Sound Partnership, Arkansas Game and Fish, Idaho Department of Fish and Game, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Environment and Climate Change Canada, U.S. Department of Energy, and U.S. Navy (Pacific Fleet).

As a practicing wildlife biologist, Dr. Shurtliff employed the Conservation Standards with his own team for over 12 years to strategize, take action, and adapt their approach for the conservation of greater sage-grouse and the sagebrush steppe ecosystem it inhabits. He is passionate about teaching the principles and processes embodied in the Conservation Standards, as they provide a time-tested, systematic process that will take any team to the next level of coordination, transparency, accountability, adaptability, and effectiveness.