Chaos Resolved!
Creating the process to resolve complex disputes.
North Coast Strategies is a public affairs firm with a practice devoted to public policy dispute resolution, focused on facilitating complex multi-party policy disputes mired in politics or controversy. Trained non-partisan facilitators will provide a forum for resolving difficult public policy disputes and create a process by which to bring the stakeholders together. North Coast created this practice to help resolve complex policy disputes, to help opposing parties engage in civil and productive discourse and to allow the political and legislative process to move forward.
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Consensus building is a process by which the parties seek unanimous agreement. It involves a good-faith effort by each stakeholder to meet the interests of each other. In today’s legislative environment, politics often trumps policy and public policy dispute resolution can assist lawmakers and regulators in reaching consensus and bring closure to a number of issues that have long been unresolved, while overcoming outside political pressure.
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Services.
Facilitation – Dispute Resolution – Stakeholder Engagement – Training – Process development
Facilitation – Dispute Resolution – Stakeholder Engagement – Training – Process development
Areas
Economic development - Transportation - Government Consolidation - Municipal Mergers - Agriculture - Water - Land Use - Budgets - Legislation - Labor - Workplace - Community Discussions - Alternative Energy - Elections, Campaigns & Debates - Campaign Finance
Economic development - Transportation - Government Consolidation - Municipal Mergers - Agriculture - Water - Land Use - Budgets - Legislation - Labor - Workplace - Community Discussions - Alternative Energy - Elections, Campaigns & Debates - Campaign Finance
Benefits.
- Build trust.
- Improve outcomes.
- Develop strategic relationships.
- Help move beyond difficult issues to focus on other policy concerns.
Facilitators.
A facilitator can help disputing parties find consensus through controversy. They can help bring multiple stakeholders, including: a city council together with a mayor, along with the community they represent to extract the politics and find clarity through all the minutia. Trained mediators are ready to facilitate public policy disputes. For example: |
DANIEL CHERRIN, a certified, SCAO-trained mediator is a public relations + affairs specialist who just happens to be a lawyer, with 18 years of experience providing senior public relations and government relations’ counsel to organizations on state and federal regulatory and legislative matters in the U.S. and Canada, as well as issues affecting corporate and individual reputation, crisis management and the media. He is the former Communications Director for the City of Detroit and Press Secretary to the Mayor.
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Experience.
Ann Arbor Transit Authority | South Point Wind | City of Inkster | Starfish Family Services | City of Detroit | City of Windsor | Mackinac Island, Mich. | Ann Arbor Art Fair | Detroit Bulk Storage | Detroit Windsor Tunnel | University of Windsor | University of Toledo | Wayne State University
Ann Arbor Transit Authority | South Point Wind | City of Inkster | Starfish Family Services | City of Detroit | City of Windsor | Mackinac Island, Mich. | Ann Arbor Art Fair | Detroit Bulk Storage | Detroit Windsor Tunnel | University of Windsor | University of Toledo | Wayne State University
Case Study: Creating An Urban Core Transit Plan in Washtenaw County, MIchigan
Dear Daniel and Brian:
Please accept our sincere thanks for the facilitation services you have provided to our Urban Core Transit Working Group. The work you did with staff in preparation for those meetings, including review of prepared materials, was extremely helpful in setting the stage for each meeting. Your facilitation of the meetings themselves, helped ensure that we got through the materials, and that everyone was heard.
As you know, gaining consensus on the Urban Core Transit Plan has been a complex and painstaking process. We believe that your help was invaluable in achieving this consensus and setting the stage for our next steps toward achieving improved regional transit.
As you consider future opportunities to provide your alternative dispute resolution services to other organizations, please know that we will be happy to speak highly of the value of your work.
Sincerely,
Michael Ford
CEO, AATA
Dear Daniel and Brian:
Please accept our sincere thanks for the facilitation services you have provided to our Urban Core Transit Working Group. The work you did with staff in preparation for those meetings, including review of prepared materials, was extremely helpful in setting the stage for each meeting. Your facilitation of the meetings themselves, helped ensure that we got through the materials, and that everyone was heard.
As you know, gaining consensus on the Urban Core Transit Plan has been a complex and painstaking process. We believe that your help was invaluable in achieving this consensus and setting the stage for our next steps toward achieving improved regional transit.
As you consider future opportunities to provide your alternative dispute resolution services to other organizations, please know that we will be happy to speak highly of the value of your work.
Sincerely,
Michael Ford
CEO, AATA