CBI has 30 years of experience helping leaders solve complex problems through consensus building. Over the past decade, CBI has engaged approximately 5,000 organizations and 100,000 individuals. Over the organization’s history, CBI mediators have worked in 70 countries across the globe.

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Sample Case Studies

  • Addressing Climate Change Risks in Ghana and Vietnam

    Addressing Climate Change Risks in Ghana and Vietnam

    CBI facilitates workshops in Ghana and Vietnam and designs tailored role-plays to help participants consider risks associated with climate change.

    June 6, 2023

    CBI, along with the World Resources Institute, facilitates workshops in Ghana and Vietnam and designs tailored role-plays to help participants consider risks associated with climate change.

  • Advancing Economic Opportunity in North Carolina

    Advancing Economic Opportunity in North Carolina

    CBI helped the North Carolina Leadership Forum identify the state's socioeconomic challenges and outline possible solutions.

    June 6, 2023

    CBI helps the North Carolina Leadership Forum identify the state’s socioeconomic challenges and outline possible solutions.

  • Assessing and Facilitating a Governance Structure Redesign for PJM Interconnection

    Assessing and Facilitating a Governance Structure Redesign for PJM Interconnection

    CBI and Raab Associates, Ltd. (a CBI Partner) facilitate a stakeholder process to transform the governance of PJM Interconnection, the largest regional transmission organization in the U.S.

    June 6, 2023

    CBI and Raab Associates, Ltd. facilitate a stakeholder process to transform the governance of PJM Interconnection, the largest regional electricity transmission organization in the U.S.

  • 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, hoping to resolve conflicts between the energy company and the local community.

    June 6, 2023

    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.

  • Balancing Conservation and Fishing Interests in Hawaii

    Balancing Conservation and Fishing Interests in Hawaii

    When fishing activity off Hawaii inadvertently harmed the local false killer whale population, mediators helped negotiators devise rules to protect the species without hurting fishing fleets.

    June 6, 2023

    When fishing activity off Hawaii inadvertently harms the local false killer whale population, CBI and CONCUR facilitate negotiations that lead to full consensus on management changes and research activities to reduce whale takes while preserving the fishing fleet's financial viability.

  • Beyond NIMBY: Exploring Stakeholder Landscape Values and Wind Energy Development

    Beyond NIMBY: Exploring Stakeholder Landscape Values and Wind Energy Development

    CBI assists Macalester College to design and lead intensive stakeholder workshops across the country to better understand opposition to wind energy.

    June 6, 2023

    CBI assists a research team from Macalester College in the design and planning of a series of public engagement workshops focusing on wind energy development in Massachusetts, Michigan, and Minnesota.

Partial List of Convenors/Clients

  • A Better City

  • Aboriginal Leadership Inst.,Inc

  • Amazon Conservation Team

  • American Academy of Pediatrics

  • American Cancer Society

  • American Petroleum Institute

  • American Wind Energy Association

  • Asia Foundation Philippines

  • Asialink Business

  • Asian Development Bank

  • Asociación Balam


  • Association of National Estuary Programs

  • Barr Foundation

  • Bay Area Metropolitan Commission and Regional Collaborative

  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

  • Boston Foundation