Sample Case Studies

• • Economic & Social Policy

  Providing Joint Negotiation Training for McDonald's Company and Franchisee Leaders

  CBI assesses key opportunities and delivers tailored negotiation training courses on Mutual Gains partnership between corporate and franchise leaders.

  October 23, 2025

  CBI assesses key opportunities and delivers tailored negotiation training courses for McDonald's on Mutual Gains partnership between corporate and franchise leaders, in order to improve capacity among the company's senior leaders.

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• • Energy & Extractives
  • Global Development & Peacebuilding

  Re-negotiating Community Agreements Between Chevron and Niger Delta Stakeholders

  CBI designs and facilitates the re-negotiation of community agreements between Chevron Nigeria Ltd. and its stakeholders in the contentious Niger Delta.

  October 23, 2025

  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.

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• • Energy & Extractives

  Reforming Energy Facilities Siting

  CBI helped streamline and expand stakeholder input to New Hampshire’s siting process for renewable energy generation and other energy facilities.

  October 23, 2025

  CBI and Raab Associates design and facilitate a state-wide process for New Hampshire citizens to improve the state's energy siting process for the legislature, leading to the passage of a new widely-supported energy siting law.

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• • Water Resources

  Regional Action for Florida's Caloosahatchee River

  CBI helped stakeholders from a four-county watershed coordinate an action plan to protect Florida’s endangered river and estuary.

  October 23, 2025

  At the request of the South Florida Water Management District, CBI helps stakeholders from a four-county watershed develop a vision and set of actionable priorities for protecting the Caloosahatchee River and Estuary.

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• • Economic & Social Policy

  Reimagining the Future of Education in America

  CBI and Convergence work with key education leaders to create a shared vision of what an extraordinary 21st-century education might look like.

  October 23, 2025

  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.

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• • Coasts & Oceans
  • Land Use & Transportation

  Resilient by Design Bay Area Challenge

  June 28, 2018

  As a coastal city, San Francisco faces impacts from rising sea levels, flooding and storms, so they launch a design competition to find novel planning solutions.

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Partial List of Convenors/Clients

• UN Development Program (UNDP)

• UN Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA)

• UN Integrated Mission Democratic Republic of the Congo

• UN Mission and Team Kosovo

• UN System Staff College

• UNDP Cambodia

• UNDP Peru

• UNDP Somalia

• UNICEF

• Unilever

• United Nations Development Group

• United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office

• University of Massachusetts

• USAID

• Washington State Dept. of Transportation

• Water Foundation