consensus building

A. Hart Associates is a consulting firm that supports leaders, coalitions, and businesses of all sizes by identifying opportunities to increase bottom lines, building and executing effective strategies, and forging successful partnerships. It offers strategic planning, board and leadership development, vision/mission/values development, and partnership building, with a cornerstone service supporting SBDC networks through strategic planning aligned with accreditation.

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Curtis Consulting is a certified Woman-Owned Small Business specializing in health communications. Led by founder Alyson Curtis, who brings twenty years of experience in health communications, the firm works to improve the health of people and populations through public awareness campaigns, health policy initiatives, and efforts addressing the social determinants of health.

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Big Goose Creek Resolutions is led by Dr. Western, a social psychologist in natural resource management who studies relationships between people, natural resources and places. The firm designs, leads and facilitates collaborative problem-solving processes involving diverse interests to build consensus, and provides training in collaborative problem solving and leadership skills for natural resource issues.

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BJL Group LLC is a planning and management firm established in 2003 that specializes in creating programs to address management needs for various applications. It has extensive experience managing and participating in public and private industries, using an adaptable process to create specific requirements for clients. Its management process involves consensus-building and expert management of owners, end users, designers, contractors and facility managers.

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Consult CLC is a woman-owned small business run by Carolyn L. Cukierman, an independent consultant. For 15 years, CLC has helped organizations improve how they do business, enhancing efficiency through strategic planning and process improvement, boosting productivity through hands-on performance management, and helping CEOs and business owners become better leaders with executive coaching. She also provides clients with marketing materials through Consult CLC, whose strategic partners include creative consultants and organizational development firms in t

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Based in Denver, CO, Centro is a consulting firm focused on providing services to strengthen cities, communities and neighborhoods by empowering people and organizations with the capacity to create great, sustainable places. Centro catalyzes collaborations and partnerships between the public and private sector to bolster districts, neighborhoods and communities, offering services from research and strategy development to on-the-ground implementation.

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Civic Dialog Group, LLC is led by President Gail Bingham, a practicing mediator for over 35 years specializing in environment, natural resources, public health, and community planning issues. The firm serves as a catalyst for creative solutions where people and organizations have differing interests and perspectives about the public interest, using consensus-building and mediation to integrate science into public decision making.

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Clarification & Mediation, Inc. (C&M) has a 35-year history helping public, private and non-profit organizations solicit input, explore alternatives, set direction, and inform constituencies. Its core services are facilitation, strategic planning, public engagement, consensus building, and conflict management. C&M serves as the administrative hub for a professional alliance of trained process facilitators, each with specific subject matter expertise.

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Community Building Institute​ The Community Building Institute helps communities and organizations thrive through inclusive, collaborative processes. FACILITATION Big groups. Small groups. Tough groups. EDUCATION ECE. PK12. Higher Ed. STRATEGIC PLANNING Processes. Plans. Results. ENVIRONMENT Large landscapes. Collaborative governance. TRANSFORMATIVE CHANGE Complexity. Systems. Futures. COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT People. Sustainable. Consensus. ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE CBI... People ask what we do... Is it conflict resolution? Facilitation? Coaching? Civic engagement? Strategic planning? Consensus building? Team building? Organizational development? Systems thinking? As you can imagine, this list goes on. And the answer is yes. Modern practice requires bringing together the best of our social technologies in ways that are matched to the context, the groups, and the client. CBI works with a broad.

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Consensus Engagement Design is a consulting firm dedicated to fostering excellence and progress through consensus-building, inclusive engagement, and intentional design. The team of organizational development specialists helps leaders, teams, and stakeholders build alignment, resolve differences, and create collaborative workplaces, serving corporations, nonprofits, and government agencies.

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Crane Associates is a network of environmental economists, urban planners, and sustainability specialists. They help communities around the globe strengthen local economies while protecting critical natural resources, using environmental economics, market analysis, community engagement, and over 20 years of field experience in water-based recreation and river management.

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Creative Resource Strategies, LLC is a natural resource consulting firm founded in 2002 and based in Salem, Oregon. It provides strategic planning, facilitation, and communication expertise to address natural resource and conservation issues, serving consortiums, local governments, nonprofits, federal and state agencies, and universities. It is certified as a Women Business Enterprise and Oregon Small Business Enterprise.

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Data Spark Consulting helps local governments, nonprofits, and community-based organizations tackle complex problems with data-driven, people-centered solutions. Founded by Lena Geraghty, who has worked with more than 60 mission-driven organizations since 2010, the firm focuses on collaboration, curiosity, and practical innovation, supporting clients in rethinking strategies, designing new initiatives, using data more effectively, and navigating change.

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Design Concepts is a national award-winning landscape architecture design and planning firm based in Lafayette, Colorado near Denver. The firm focuses on parks, schools, playgrounds, and architecture, with most projects built through construction. It is a certified M/WBE, SBE, and DBE firm with the City and County of Denver and a DBE under the US Department of Transportation's Colorado Unified Certification Program (UCP).

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DPD Solutions is a sole proprietorship founded in early 2022 by David P. Dollahon, AICP, an urban planner and dispute resolution professional with 28+ years of experience. The firm specializes in public engagement, conflict resolution, land use planning, affordable housing, strategy development, government relations, policy development, and process improvement, and also offers California mobile notary public services.

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Emerging ag inc is a boutique international consulting firm providing communications and public affairs services to clients in the Agriculture, Food and Health sectors, with a strong focus on global policy issues and engagement with international organizations. The multicultural team is based globally to provide 24-hour coverage of international issues.

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FreshTracksHX is a boutique UX consulting agency providing User Experience Research expertise to clients. Founded in 2008 as StoneUX, the team conducts end-to-end strategic and tactical research and helps organizations grow their UX research capabilities through training and expert support, creating custom programs to meet organizations' UX research needs.

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