When faced with challenging, complex, multiparty issues every funder, convener, and participant wants to know: Is there a chance we can work out our differences? What collaborative process should we use, and who should be involved?  Will the costs and risks be too high for us to proceed? CBI has developed a comprehensive and proven method to answer these questions and more — bringing our well-tested theory of Mutual Gains negotiation and our broad, substantive expertise to bear when conducting stakeholder assessments.  CBI’s assessment reports are readable and comprehensive — and as professional neutrals, we know what it means to guarantee confidentiality.

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Negotiating Community Agreements Between Chevron and Niger Delta Stakeholders
Assessment and Negotiated Rulemaking Facilitation: Bureau of Indian Education
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Using a participant-driven and adaptive approach, CBI utilizes a range of assessment tools including web-based surveys and in-depth interviews to:Stakeholder and Issue Assessment photo

  • Map stakeholder interests and concerns
  • Gauge prospects for successful engagement
  • Consider various process design approaches
  • Frame issues and problems
  • Help determine whether or not to go forward with engagement efforts
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"Training-the-Trainers": Customized Negotiation Training for the American Cancer Society
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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Facilitating Stakeholder Engagement Around a Superfund Cleanup in Connecticut

Facilitating Stakeholder Engagement Around a Superfund Cleanup in Connecticut

CBI conducts an issues assessment around a contentious Superfund cleanup site in Stratford, Connecticut and facilitates a community advisory committee, allowing for increased community involvement in the cleanup decision making process.

Managing Corporate, Client, and Community Public Engagement in Uruguay

Managing Corporate, Client, and Community Public Engagement in Uruguay

CBI engages Argentine and Uruguayan stakeholders to identify their concerns about two controversial paper mills on the Rio Uruguay, and explores a joint review of the mills’ social and environmental effects.

Facilitating a Policy Dialogue to Improve the Permitting Process in Delaware

Facilitating a Policy Dialogue to Improve the Permitting Process in Delaware

CBI conducts a stakeholder assessment and facilitates a policy dialogue on the application and permitting process for land use and development in New Castle County, Delaware.

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