Published Work

The work, documented.

Task force reports, strategic plans, and whitepapers produced through Confluence PSG processes. Most facilitated processes produce a report. These are the reports that also changed laws, rewrote codes, reset agency policies, and redesigned systems.

Confluence PSG Whitepaper · Methodology

The Power of Collaborative Decision Making: Breaking the Gridlock on Even the Most Complex and Contentious Issues

The whitepaper that documents the CDMP framework in full. It makes the case that most high-stakes collaborative processes fail not because the people in them are unreasonable but because the processes themselves were designed wrong, explains the reasoning behind each of the five phases, and provides the evidence base for why the sequence produces outcomes that standard facilitation cannot.

Published Work

Published reports from Confluence-facilitated processes

Good Government · Transportation

RTD Accountability Committee, Final Report

The complete findings and 31 recommendations of the RTD Accountability Committee, including the restructured nine-member hybrid board governance proposal codified in SB26-150.

Civil Rights

Task Force on the Rights of Coloradans with Disabilities, Final Report

Fifty-eight recommendations across four simultaneous subcommittees covering government accessibility, housing, outdoor access, and a full rewrite of Colorado’s civil rights statutes for persons with disabilities.

Housing

Task Force to Study Corporate Housing Ownership, Report, Findings & Recommendations

Findings and legislative recommendations on the effect of corporate ownership of residential real estate on communities across Colorado, produced for the State Demography Office.

Education · Public Safety

Colorado Educator Safety Task Force, Roadmap for Action

Findings and role-specific roadmaps from the 17-member task force, including the survey of more than 1,100 educators whose results contradicted all prior available data on educator safety.

Public Safety · Criminal Justice

Working Group on Transforming Criminal & Juvenile Justice, Final Report

Consensus recommendations from the 17-member working group on the mission, vision, structure, and membership for two new permanent commissions to replace the Colorado Commission on Criminal and Juvenile Justice.

Education · Public Safety

Colorado Safer Schools Initiative, Safer Schools & School Communities Report

Findings and strategies from Colorado’s largest working group of education stakeholders, with more than 250 members, on reducing violence involving students at the school, system, and community levels.

Education · Public Safety

Colorado Interagency Work Group on School Safety, Final Report

A Framework for Colorado State Government’s Approach to School Safety, containing more than fifty actions organized around the findings of six subcommittees. The approach has drawn interest from state and federal officials across the
country.

Strategic Plans

Published reports from Confluence-facilitated processes

Strategic Planning · State Government

Colorado Department of Local Affairs, 2024–2026 Strategic Plan

A three-year strategic plan produced through a multi-phase process including individual leadership interviews, two retreats, all-staff sessions, and division-level engagement.

Strategic Planning · Juvenile Justice

Colorado JJDP Council, Three-Year Plan 2024–2026

A three-year strategic plan produced through a multi-day Council retreat and ongoing subcommittee facilitation, advising the Governor and legislature on juvenile justice priorities.

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