From public participation to stakeholder engagement and agreement building, CBI helps conveners and stakeholders design processes that best fit their needs, contexts, and resources. Our experts gather data from interviews, focus groups, and surveys to design highly tailored processes that are focused, structured, and useful. CBI’s process design toolbox draws on experience across multiple issue topics, levels of government, contexts, and geographies, to provide rich, seasoned advice and guidance.

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Facilitating a Superfund Cleanup on Cape Cod
Facilitating Global Industry Standards for Aquaculture
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CBI's professionals effectively design and lead a variety of processes, including:

  • Public workshops and engagement
  • Collaborative scientific and technical workshops and summits
  • Networks for education, understanding, and action
  • Coalitions for constituent building and advocacy
  • Community advisory groups
  • Joint fact finding
  • Negotiated rulemaking
  • Policy dialogue
  • National and international conferences
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The Hudson River Sustainable Shorelines: Facilitating a Collaborative Research Process
CBI Supports Global Aquaculture Standard Setting Process
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Facilitating Tribal Input on Indian Land Consolidation

Facilitating Tribal Input on Indian Land Consolidation

CBI facilitates seven culturally sensitive, participatory consultation meetings between Native American Tribes and the U.S. Department of the Interior, which lead to a settlement implementation plan for one of the largest class action settlements in U.S. history.

Facilitating a National Energy Policy Initiative

Facilitating a National Energy Policy Initiative

CBI and the Rocky Mountain Institute design and facilitate the National Energy Policy Initiative to produce expert consensus on policy priorities and disseminate their conclusions in testimony before Congress.

Leveraging International Conservation Efforts Through Negotiation, Engagement, and Strategic Planning

Leveraging International Conservation Efforts Through Negotiation, Engagement, and Strategic Planning

CBI has facilitated and helped to design multiple WWF dialogues aimed at developing environmentally and socially responsible production standards for commodities and goods including farmed seafood, beef, and timber. We’ve also helped WWF, a leading conservation organization, with strategic planning across global offices and programs.

Creating Effective International Development Partnerships with the United Nations

Creating Effective International Development Partnerships with the United Nations

CBI develops a long-term partnership with several levels of the United Nations Development Group's leadership, providing facilitation around key strategic priorities and plans; assessment on key issues; and, training and capacity building for essential collaboration, negotiation, and consensus building skills.

Facilitating Agreement on Strategic Priorities for the United Nations Development Group

Facilitating Agreement on Strategic Priorities for the United Nations Development Group

Through a thoughtfully facilitated process, CBI helps the United Nations Development Group determine its strategic priorities and develop a work plan to implement them.

PJM Interconnection: Assessing a Stakeholder Process and Governance Structure

PJM Interconnection: Assessing a Stakeholder Process and Governance Structure

CBI facilitates a stakeholder process to transform the governance of PJM Interconnection, the largest regional transmission organization in the U.S.

Facilitating the Work of the Ex-Offender Re-Entry Policy Council

Facilitating the Work of the Ex-Offender Re-Entry Policy Council

Retained by the Ex-Offender Re-Entry Policy Council, CBI facilitates the work of the Council's Health and Housing Advisory Group by assessing the group's needs and designing and facilitating the Advisory Group meeting in Washington, D.C.

Todd Schenk

Todd Schenk

Todd Schenk is a a Graduate Associate with CBI, working on public engagement processes, scenario planning, and training.

Recent experience includes a public engagement process around Assabet River (MA) water quality, and the preparation of a complex scenario exercise for senior civil servants and other stakeholders in Ghana, centered on hydroelectricity planning in the face of climate change. Todd coordinates CBI's "Local Communities Adapting to Climate Change: Managing Risk in Decision Making" course and has produced an online version of the course.

Assessing Corporate/Community Conflict over a Hydropower Project in India

Assessing Corporate/Community Conflict over a Hydropower Project in India

CBI conducts a stakeholder assessment around the construction of a hydropower project in northern India, with the aim of pinpointing and resolving conflicts between the energy company and the local community.

Designing and Convening a Policy Dialogue on Wastewater in Delaware

Designing and Convening a Policy Dialogue on Wastewater in Delaware

CBI helps the city of Delaware, MD to organize and convene a policy dialogue on financing wastewater and stormwater infrastructure, incorporating stakeholders from across the state.

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