CBI professionals have a thorough understanding of group dynamics and vast experience facilitating hundreds of diverse meetings and problem-solving processes, including large, multiparty policy dialogues for a number of local, national and international organizations. Much more than meeting managers, CBI’s facilitators: engage deeply in the substance to help stakeholders clarify issues, interests and options; think strategically about negotiation to maximize joint gains for participants; organize and advance stakeholder thinking through policy analysis and synthesis, and coach individuals and organizations to strengthen facilitative leadership and organizational collaboration capacity.

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Facilitating Cape Cod Dune Shacks Management
Facilitating the Farm and Food Policy Project
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CBI’s expert facilitators actively manage the entire process, ensuring that everyone is involved and encouraging open discussion by:  

  • Introducing procedures to ensure effective discussion
  • Managing “at-the-table” dialogue and meeting proceedings
  • Facilitating timely and focused conversation
  • Helping groups name problems and identify options
  • Working to maximize joint gains
  • Helping avoid or resolve disputes
  • Ensuring constant progress by engaging participants outside of meetings
  • Understanding the importance of neutrality
  • Practicing impartiality
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Facilitating Technical Workshops: 5 Steps to ‘Getting It Right’
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Facilitating the Creation of a Global UN Development Strategy
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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.

Beyond NIMBYism: Exploring Stakeholder Landscape Values and Wind Energy Development

Beyond NIMBYism: Exploring Stakeholder Landscape Values and Wind Energy Development

CBI assists Macalester College to design and lead intensive stakeholder workshops across the country to better understand opposition to wind energy; the research team finds that landscape values around wind energy development can be complex, nuanced, and intertwined with local values and interests.

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.

Building the ‘Political Acumen’ of United Nations Resident Coordinators

Building the ‘Political Acumen’ of United Nations Resident Coordinators

CBI helps the United Nations Development Group build the political acumen — the diplomatic and coordination skills — of UN Resident Coordinators by defining the political acumen skill set, and aligning the UN's human resources department to integrate these skills into their assessment and training activities.

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.

Helping Citizens Negotiate Together

Helping Citizens Negotiate Together

Oct 27 2011

When citizens are asked to serve on committees charged with addressing complex problems, what is really being asking of them? And how can we (mediators and public policy facilitators), help them?

Addressing Climate Change Risks in Ghana and Vietnam

Addressing Climate Change Risks in Ghana and Vietnam

CBI facilitates workshops in Ghana and Vietnam and designs tailored role-plays to help participants consider risks associated with climate change.

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