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 the Creation of a Global UN Development Strategy
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Facilitating a Stakeholder Engagement Process to Revitalize Meriden, CT

Facilitating a Stakeholder Engagement Process to Revitalize Meriden, CT

CBI helps the Town of Meriden, CT create recommendations for downtown revitalization by conducting a stakeholder assessment and facilitating a public engagement process. CBI’s inclusive approach generates long-lasting support for redevelopment.

Performance-Based Federal Surface Transportation Policy Viewpoints

Participant views expressed at the Bipartisan Policy Center National Transportation Policy Project's "Transitioning to Performance-Based Federal Surface Transportation Policy" conference held in Italy, March 2010 and facilitated by CBI.

Assessment and Negotiated Rulemaking Facilitation: Bureau of Indian Education

Assessment and Negotiated Rulemaking Facilitation: Bureau of Indian Education

CBI conducts a stakeholder assessment and facilitates a negotiated rulemaking process on school maintenance funding for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Communities in Rhode Island

Stakeholder Engagement for Sustainable Communities in Rhode Island

CBI helps KeepSpace with their unique, holistic approach to community planning and development in three Rhode Island communities by providing facilitated, collaborative stakeholder engagement with residents, local businesses, non-profit organizations, and municipal and state agencies.

Facilitating Cape Cod Dune Shacks Management

Facilitating Cape Cod Dune Shacks Management

CBI assists the National Park Service (NPS) and Cape Cod National Seashore (CCNS) to work collaboratively with stakeholders to integrate community values about place and tradition into decision-making around the preservation of a culturally significant historic district.

Facilitating a Superfund Cleanup on Cape Cod

Facilitating a Superfund Cleanup on Cape Cod

CBI designs and facilitates a structured, integrated decision-making process for the Massachusetts Military Reservation Superfund cleanup site, with a focus on inter-agency negotiation and stakeholder engagement.

Little Mt. Equinox Wind Forum Stakeholder Engagement

Little Mt. Equinox Wind Forum Stakeholder Engagement

CBI designs and facilitates a stakeholder engagement process to explore the local interests and concerns regarding the proposed siting of a wind facility in Manchester, Vermont.

Facilitating Hydraulic Fracturing Workshops for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Facilitating Hydraulic Fracturing Workshops for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

CBI facilitates meetings on hydraulic fracturing for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, bringing together technical experts from across the country and carefully managing dialogue on this highly sensitive subject.

Facilitating the Farm and Food Policy Project

Facilitating the Farm and Food Policy Project

CBI facilitates the “Farm and Food Policy Project” — an unprecedented collaborative project between some forty policy organizations representing hundreds of constituent groups from across the country — to promote a sustainable U.S. food and agriculture system.

Designing Stakeholder Engagement Recommendations for Coastal Management

Designing Stakeholder Engagement Recommendations for Coastal Management

CBI helps the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration and the Coastal States Organization optimize their stakeholder engagement approach; facilitates five national meetings; and synthesizes stakeholder recommendations for revising the Coastal Zone Management Act.

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