Collaborative Solutions
Facilitation, mediation, and collaborative planning to resolve disputes, negotiate agreements, build consensus, and move consequential issues forward.
The hardest problems can’t be solved by one organization or interest alone. Moving forward requires building trust, consensus, and lasting solutions.
Kearns & West has a 40-year history of helping people with different interests, responsibilities, and perspectives reach agreements on the nation’s toughest issues. We design and manage collaborative processes, bring the right parties to the table, facilitate difficult conversations, and help groups move towards agreement and action.
We’re bridge builders. Our work ranges from mediated settlements to technical working groups to large-scale regional initiatives. We help clients negotiate agreements, build consensus on policy, work through technical disputes, and manage complex multi-party processes, creating a path forward.
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Our Proven Performance
Rely on experienced, impartial professionals
For 40 years, Kearns & West has helped public agencies, businesses, communities, and other interests navigate complex, high-stakes issues.
Reach settlements on programs, permits, and policies
We design and facilitate collaborative processes that help parties resolve disputes, negotiate agreements, and reach consensus on consequential programs, permits, policies, and projects.
Bring parties in deep conflict together
We work where interests diverge and trust is low, creating the conditions for parties to engage productively, and work through difficult issues.
Move from agreement to implementation
Reaching agreement is only the beginning. We help parties establish the governance, relationships, and processes to translate commitments into action and sustain collaboration.
Start the conversation with us.
Tell us where your process is stuck. We will map the agencies, users, and timelines and lay out a path that holds up.