Case Studies

Working with the World Bank Group, CBI helps improve collaboration among diverse stakeholders to accelerate rural electrification in remote regions in the developing world.

CBI partners with the UN System Staff College to train senior-level UN leaders, government officials, and other development stakeholders in consensus building to support effective implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.

CBI designs and facilitates a roundtable dialogue among diverse stakeholders to develop recommendations to help meet New York’s ambitious renewable energy goal of 50 percent renewable sourced power by 2030.

Working with Chile's Energy Minister, CBI helps formulate Energía 2050, a shared roadmap for a cleaner, cheaper, and more accessible energy future for the country.

CBI helps the World Wildlife Fund's Forest Goal Team refine its strategic focus and prepare for challenges, as it works with diverse sectors to promote responsible forest management and trade, as well as deforestation-free supply chains.

The Council of Large Public Housing Agencies and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation enlist CBI to design and facilitate a series of national summits on Housing and Education, to build and sustain successful partnerships among housing agencies and school districts.

CBI and its partner Convergence design a highly creative process with key education leaders, creating a shared vision of what an extraordinary 21st-century education might look like for all learners and working together to realize it.

CBI provides highly tailored negotiation training and coaching to Fortune 500 pharmaceutical companies, with direct application to market access negotiations.

The American Cancer Society asks CBI to provide a negotiation skills training course for its Executive Managing Directors from regional offices all over the country. This course catalyzes an organization-wide commitment to building the negotiation skills of all American Cancer Society staff and volunteers.

CBI designs and facilitates the renegotiation of community agreements between Chevron Nigeria Ltd. and its stakeholders in the contentious Niger Delta through an innovative participatory stakeholder assessment.

CBI works with the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) to improve member governments' use of mediation and informal problem solving to respond to complaints about corporations' adherence to the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.

Supported by the Ford Foundation, and in partnership with the New Nigeria Foundation, CBI convenes a multi-stakholder Forum for Inclusive Nigerian Development (FIND). FIND works with national and state leaders and citizens to drive the use of oil and gas revenue for sustainable, inclusive development.