Douglas Worts has been a museologist since 1980.  Until the autumn of 2007, Douglas was an interpretive planner and audience researcher at the Art Gallery of Ontario, in Toronto.  Since then, he has embarked on a path of further exploring his interests in culture and sustainability.  Currently, Doug, along with his partner Glenn Sutter, has established WorldViews Consulting to provide advice and support to a wide range of organizations interested in sustainability.

Over the past three decades, Douglas has published and spoken widely, in Canada and internationally, on topics of museum audience, creativity, education and the relationship of Culture to sustainability.  For more than a dozen years, Doug’s special research and publishing focus has been on understanding and promoting the notion of a ‘culture of sustainability’.  This interest crystallized when he was invited to join LEAD International (Leadership for Environment and Development) – a cross-disciplinary, global network, funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and created to explore and promote the goal of sustainability.  He is a founding member of the Canadian Working Group on Museums and Sustainable Communities and a recipient of a Senior Research Fellowship from the Canadian Museums Association.  For five years, during the 1990s, Doug taught a graduate course in museum education at the University of Toronto.  A founding member of the Visitor Studies Association (VSA), Doug also has been a consultant to many museums and museum organizations, including the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Getty Museum in California and the American Association of Museums.  He is currently co-chair of the Alberta Museum Association’s Museum Excellence Program (MEP).  Doug’s goal is to bring his unique perspective on culture’s relationship to sustainability into practical applications that foster meaningful societal change.