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How We Help

We foster creative, inclusive, equitable, and enduring solutions.

Clients across sectors bring forward challenges that rarely fit a single service line. Whatever the situation, we bring a fair process, the right people and cross-sector experience.

Make Decisions

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Resolve Conflict

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Lead Meetings

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Guide Permitting

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Engage Communities

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Coordinate Agencies

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Our Sectors

Our work spans the sectors shaping communities, infrastructure, and the environment, where collaboration is essential to lasting outcomes.

Water

Facilitating decision-making about water quality, supply, and allocation at scales from a single community water system to a multi-state river basin.

Technology & Innovation

Bringing together companies, governments, regulators, communities, and other interests to develop practical solutions and create durable pathways from innovation to implementation.

Marine Resources

Facilitating difficult marine policy conversations, from offshore renewable energy and fisheries management to marine spatial planning and coastal resiliency.

Natural Resources

Helping develop shared management plans, resource recovery strategies, and restoration projects that achieve durable outcomes benefiting both people and ecosystems.

Government Solutions

Partnering with public agencies to build trust, engage communities, and navigate complex decisions.

Energy

Facilitating complex, multi-party processes that align energy development with environmental protection, economic opportunity, and community values.

Community and Regional Planning

Helping residents shape their community’s future through authentic engagement processes that reflect diverse priorities and equitable development.

Transportation

Linking people to one another, to places, and to resources by bringing together public agencies, transportation providers, and communities.

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Maria Samsonite

Director, Marine & Coastal

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Second Client

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Who We Are & What We Do

An independent firm built for the decisions no one can make alone

We design neutral, inclusive engagement processes that help government, utility, industry, and nonprofit organizations turn complex public input into clear, defensible decisions. From NEPA/CEQA and council hearings to multi-agency and private-sector initiatives, our senior practitioners and PhD-level facilitators bring decades of real-world decision-making experience to projects across the country.

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Our Services

Flexible services designed to build trust, navigate complexity, and move important work forward.

Tribal Relations

Tribal relations grounded in respect for Tribal sovereignty, supporting government-to-government consultation, collaborative policy development, and lasting relationships.

Digital Engagement

Technology, accessibility, and digital strategies that help organizations collaborate, expand participation, improve access, and put technology to work effectively.

Communications

Communication to build understanding, connect with the people affected, and create clarity and trust to move forward.

Equitable and Inclusive Engagement

Equitable and inclusive community engagement to remove barriers, broaden participation, and enable meaningful participation in decision-making.

Collaborative Solutions

Facilitation, mediation, and collaborative planning to resolve disputes, negotiate agreements, build consensus, and move consequential issues forward.

Featured Project

NOAA Fisheries

Pacific Bluefin Tuna Fishery Stakeholder Engagement

The Challenge A single fishery-management question sat at the intersection of many interests, and no one group could answer it alone. Consultation and permitting under the ESA, MMPA, and NEPA raise the bar for coordination and defensible process. When jurisdictions overlap and interests compete, agencies and primes bring in a neutral firm to structure the…

Start the Conversation

Planning a project that requires alignment? We’d love to help.

Every complex project begins with people who need to move forward together. Tell us where you are in the process, and we’ll help build a path toward informed, lasting decisions.

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