What Sets Us Apart
Dialogue Partners is committed to personally and professionally engaging people in decision making to make better, more durable civic engagement decisions. Five factors set us apart from other public engagement firms:
Our Experience
Dialogue Partners is composed of a team that has seen it all.
- We have designed, planned, organized, facilitated and reported upon over 300facilitated events
- We have organized and facilitated events that range in size from six experts to thousands of citizens.
- We specialize in controversial and emotionally charged situations.
This depth and breadth of our civic engagement experience ensures that your programs will be delivered smoothly and sustainably.
Our Front-end Oriented Process
Whether by public and stakeholder engagement, coaching, facilitation or training, your public participation process will be enhanced by a proven methodology that places emphasis on front-end design elements that include needs analysis, conflict assessment, and rigorous planning.
Dialogue Partners will work with your project team and participants to clearly define and ensure a common understanding of the community engagement issues you face. By taking care of the front-end design, we can dramatically improve your stakeholder engagement success.
Our Leadership & Innovation
We know that it is important that the people you work with rise to the challenge, become creative and enthusiastic, and implement your programs with integrity.
At Dialogue Partners, stakeholder engagement is not just what we do, it is who we are. With our backgrounds as certified professional facilitators and our roles in the facilitation community and in the International Association of Public Participation (IAP2), we strive to improve and contribute to the world-wide practice of public engagement.
Our Elevated Standards
Our clients want to know that they are getting the best civic engagement advice. Our definition of “best”




