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The Collaborative Plans the Conversation Before It Plans the Place
A Boston firm found an unusual way to move public projects forward: treat the meeting, the map and the message as one piece of infrastructure.
The Consulting Firm That Turned a Stormwater Tax Into a Day at the Park
Shockey Consulting sells something city halls badly need and cannot manufacture on command: a credible conversation. Its best work begins where the engineering ends and the public questions start.
The Barnhart Company and the 30-Minute Rule for Public Trust
On Arizona's biggest public projects, the decisive technology may be a hotline, a bilingual survey and a clock. This small Phoenix firm turns public attention into an operating system.
The People Who Translate the Orange Cones
For nearly half a century, this small Boston firm has worked in the gap between a technically correct plan and a public willing to live with it. Its product is not publicity. It is a room where the hard questions can finally be asked.
The Firm That Brings a Biologist to the Public Meeting
Hollaway built an unusual consultancy around a simple observation: the science can be right and the room can still be lost. Its answer is to put field scientists, planners, communicators, and designers on the same side of the table.
The People Between the Bulldozer and the Neighborhood
K Strategies built a business around the awkward space where big civic projects meet actual human beings. The work looks like PR from a distance; up close, it is translation, trust and a very detailed meeting plan.
The Meeting Was Never the Point
Cortez Consulting built a business by noticing who was missing from Austin's public conversations. A decade later, it is taking the same habit inside the organizations that run them.
Blue Flamingo Group and the art of getting people to act
After the Camp Fire, Paradise needed a way to reach a scattered community. Blue Flamingo Group built a communications practice around the difficult distance between receiving a message and doing something with it.
Circlepoint knows a better project starts with a better conversation
An environmental report and a neighborhood conversation rarely speak the same language. Circlepoint has built a consulting business around getting them into the same room.
Convey makes the public part of public works
A civil engineer built a communications agency around a stubborn problem: a technically sound project still has to make sense to the people who live with it.