Staff

Juliana Birkhoff

Consensus Building Institute

Senior Mediator
David Fairman

Consensus Building Institute

Managing Director
Michele Ferenz

Consensus Building Institute

Senior Associate
Ona Ferguson

Consensus Building Institute

Senior Associate
Patrick Field

Consensus Building Institute

Managing Director
Kate Harvey

Consensus Building Institute

Associate
Merrick Hoben

Consensus Building Institute

Director, Washington D.C. Regional Office
David Kovick

Consensus Building Institute

Senior Associate
Andrew Maxfield

Consensus Building Institute

Marketing Associate
Edward Minor

Consensus Building Institute

Chief Operating Officer
Hal Movius

Consensus Building Institute

Principal and Director of Training and Consulting Services
David Plumb

Consensus Building Institute

Senior Associate
Stacie Nicole Smith

Consensus Building Institute

Senior Associate and Director, Workable Peace
Lawrence Susskind

Consensus Building Institute

Founder and Senior Consultant

News & Views

Larry Susskind Launches New Blog
Jan 05, 2009
Nashua Telegraph Reports on "Breaking Robert's Rules"
Dec 18, 2008
Larry Susskind and Australian counterparts discuss public engagement
Dec 08, 2008
Learning to Work at the Intersection of Science, Policy and Politics: Instream Flow 2008
Nov 26, 2008
A Hands-on Program for Facilitating Powerful Coalitions- April 14-16, 2009 in Austin, Texas
Nov 26, 2008

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Juliana Birkhoff Discusses FACA - Part 1 of 2
In Part 1, Andrew Maxfield and Juliana Birkhoff discuss the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA), a measure enacted in 1972 to ensure that advice by advisory committees is objective and accessible to

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November 19, 2008
Patrick Field on Public Apologies
In this episode, CBI's Managing Director Patrick Field talks to Noah Susskind about "public apologies"—apologies to the public on behalf of oneself or one's organization.

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September 22, 2008
David Fairman on Leaders as Consensus Builders
CBI Managing Director David Fairman talks to Noah Susskind about leaders as consensus builders.

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September 12, 2008
Breaking Robert's Rules of Order
It's time to break the rules. Consider this new way to run your meetings, build consensus, and get results. Every day, groups of all kinds attempt to reach agreement using Robert's Rules of Order. These arcane rituals—otherwise known as parliamentary procedure—usually produce a victorious majority and a dissatisfied minority that can't wait to bring issues up again until it gets what it wants. Indeed, decisions made by "majority rule" are inherently unstable and usually produce far less satisfying results than if everyone had worked together.

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June 02, 2008
New Ideas about Negotiation Training and Organizational Capacity
In this podcast, Hal Movius and Noah Susskind discuss why building individual negotiation skills can fail to produce organizational results.

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April 25, 2008