Education & Speaking

Forisk educational courses and presentations provide a method for accessing and applying Forisk research and increasing the success of your organization’s event.

Forisk can help you meet your objectives and exceed expectations by providing timely, relevant and custom content specific to your audience related to evaluating, understanding and investing in timber and wood-related markets and industries.

Custom and Executive Education

Forisk offers specialized training and executive education for professionals and investors in timber related assets and wood-using industries. Our value proposition to you:  we teach you to do it yourself so that you can leverage your own experience and insight when making investment and operational decisions. Contact Heather Clark (hsclark@forisk.com) to schedule a private workshop or speaking engagement.

Course topics include:

 

Courses qualify for Continuing Forestry Education (CFE) credits, Georgia Continuing Logger Education (CLE) credits, and Continuing Education (CE) credits through the Georgia Real Estate Appraiser’s Board.

________________________________________________________________________________________________________

2026 Workshops

“Applied Forest Finance” Class

  • Date: March 31, 2026
  • Location: Virtual – Live Zoom Webinar
  • Visit the Applied Forest Finance page to learn more
  • Course Description: This class details the step-by-step financial analysis required to answer key investment and forest management questions. Learn how to identify, value, and rank timber and forestry investments. This one-day course is ideal for forestry consultants and investment analysts, timberland owners and investors, and anyone else who needs to understand the identification, valuation, and ranking of timber-dependent and forest-related investments.

“Timber Market Analysis” Class

  • Date: September 30 and October 1, 2026
  • Location: Two Day Virtual Class – Live Zoom Webinar
  • Visit the Timber Market Analysis page to learn more
  • Course Description: This class details the step-by-step process to understand, track, and analyze the price, demand, supply, and competitive dynamics of local timber markets and wood baskets, including the impacts of new and announced wood bioenergy projects. This course is ideal for current or future forestry consultants and analysts, timberland owners and investors, wood procurement professionals, bioenergy project managers, finance and accounting professionals and attorneys.

__________________________________________________________________________________________________

Speaking Engagements

Dr. Brooks Mendell, Ms. Amanda Lang, and Dr. Shawn Baker provide keynote and conference presentations for annual meetings and internal conferences related to wood bioenergy, timberland investment vehicles, forest industry strategy and risk management, and forest operations.

Learn More