About
What We Do
Our Vision
Our Mission
Our Clients
How We Work
We help groups use collaboration and negotiation to reach durable outcomes in public policy and organizational strategy.
Our services consist of stakeholder engagement, consensus building, and environmental conflict resolution. Our sector focus is urban planning, infrastructure design, environmental policy, and organizational strategy and governance.
We help clients create public places, programs, policies, and governance frameworks.
Leaders in government and business should strive to create a public realm that delivers social, environmental, and economic benefits in a sustainable and equitable manner.
Bluhon delivers state-of-the-art collaboration and negotiation services to leaders who seek to engage the ideas, creativity, and political energy of the public in creating public outcomes.
Our clients include public- and private-sector organizations with projects to plan, policies or programs to advance, and organizations who seek to renew their mission and operations. They include municipal and county government, special districts, state and federal agencies, NGOs, and community-based organizations.
Project sponsors retain us to assess stakeholder needs and the political landscape to design and facilitate an effective engagement plan. We partner with the project sponsor’s larger planning team and integrate our engagement and consensus-building tasks seamlessly with their work.
We serve as a trusted liaison between client and public as information is gathered, draft scenarios are shaped and tested, and final plans are advanced for consideration by the relevant decision-making entity.
Services
Public Engagement
- Inventory and risk assessment
- Process design
- Outreach/education, opinion research
- Public meeting facilitation
Consensus Building
- Agreement-focused facilitation
- Task force, advisory committee
Environmental Conflict Resolution
- Assessment
- Dispute resolution
Advisory (non-neutral)
- Stakeholder engagement
- Assisted negotiation
Sectors
Urban Planning
- General and specific plans
- Urban design
Infrastructure and Facility Design
– Transportation
– Civic and campus facilities
Environment
– Habitat, resilience, and climate adaptation planning
Strategy and Governance
– Policy design
– Organizational strategy