Is your organization or group collaborating effectively? Can you improve the way you work with others? Are your current consensus building techniques and institutional arrangements effective? CBI engages in leading-edge research and evaluation to answer these questions and more. We do not conduct outsider-driven, academic studies but instead conduct practical, interactive, participant-driven studies to determine what works — and what doesn’t. And when collaboration, negotiation, and consensus building techniques and practices are implemented, we help clients determine how to measure outcomes and use their findings to further advance objectives and goals.

Featured Case Studies
Bringing the Tools of Consensus Building to Sustainable Heritage Management Practice
Evaluating Multistakeholder Dialogues for the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development
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CBI practitioners use a range of tools to gather feedback and data, including:

  • Web-based surveys
  • 360-degree assessments
  • In-depth confidential interviews
  • Careful reviews of bylaws and other governance documents

CBI effectively engages stakeholders in:

  • Multiple rounds of goal setting
  • Data collection
  • Analysis
  • Reflection
  • Practical problem solving

CBI's findings are provided in several formats, including:

  • Spreadsheets
  • Reports
  • Technical charts and graphics
  • Fact sheets
  • PowerPoint presentations
  • Manuals
  • Newsletters
  • Online
Featured Content
Expanding the Role of Mediation in Corporate Social Responsibility Disputes
Evaluating Community-Based Collaboration on Federal Lands and Resources
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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.

A Didactic Case Study of Jarash Archaeological Site, Jordan

Stacie Nicole Smith

A Didactic Case Study of Jarash Archaeological Site, Jordan: Stakeholders and Heritage Values in Site Management, based on the archaeological site of Jarash, Jordan, is designed to help heritage professionals recognize the importance of stakeholders and their values to effective site management, and to teach them skills for identifying stakeholders, eliciting their values and interests, and integrating these into management decision-making.

Evaluating Multistakeholder Dialogues for the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development

Evaluating Multistakeholder Dialogues for the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development

CBI conducts a study to evaluate multi-stakeholder dialogues run by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development, and identifies six key principles for effective dialogue.

Building Capacity for Mediation with the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board

Building Capacity for Mediation with the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board

CBI helps the Alberta Environmental Appeals Board build its capacity for mediation by providing customized trainings, revising their policies, and evaluating the effectiveness of their program, which saves time and money for the Board and disputants.

Bringing the Tools of Consensus Building to Sustainable Heritage Management Practice

Bringing the Tools of Consensus Building to Sustainable Heritage Management Practice

CBI serves as consultant to the Getty Conservation Institute (GCI) on a GCI project to improve heritage professionals' capacity to constructively engage stakeholders around the sustainable management of cultural heritage places.

Helping OECD NCPs use Mediation to Implement Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

Helping OECD NCPs use Mediation to Implement Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises

CBI works with OECD National Contact Point (NCP) offices to improve their use of mediation and informal problem solving to respond to complaints filed against OECD affiliated corporations and resolve corporate social responsibility disputes.

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