The Consensus Building Institute

The Consensus Building Institute (CBI), founded in 1993, improves the way that leaders collaborate to make organizational decisions, achieve agreements, and manage multi-party conflicts and planning efforts. A nationally and internationally recognized not-for-profit organization, CBI provides strategic planning, organizational development, and high-skilled facilitation for state and federal agencies, non-profits, and international development agencies around the world. CBI senior staff are affiliated with the MIT-Harvard Public Disputes Program and the MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning. 

CBI practitioners’ multi-organizational business and government, U.S. and international, experience allows CBI to bring diverse experience and expertise to an organizations’ challenges. CBI’s areas of expertise include:

• Leadership visioning and goal setting
• Organization-wide strategic planning
• Goal setting and strategy for major organizational initiatives
• Creating and maintaining inter-organizational partners and coalitions
• Stakeholder and public consultation on organizations goals, strategy, and initiatives
• Facilitating organizations toward agreed-upon outcomes to achieve success

More information about CBI can be found at www.cbi.org. 

CBI is an Equal Opportunity Employer