Message From The Director

"How” matters. When seeking shared solutions, “how” you go about the task can make a big difference.  Finding the best path to lasting, shared solutions is at the core of the FCRC Consensus Center’s mission. We serve as an independent public center facilitating consensus solutions and supporting collaborative action. The Center provides a range of professional services to help leaders, stakeholders and citizens to work together, innovate, build consensus and implement quality solutions.

The Center was created by the Florida Legislature in 1987 and placed in our independent home at Florida State University. Many of our early successes were the result of mediating conflict to break impasse and gridlock on public issues.  Today many of our projects focus on enhancing and documenting collaborative leadership and facilitating stakeholder planning that results in the implementation of consensus plans and actions.

In hundreds of projects over the past 27 years, we have assisted public, private and NGO leaders, agencies and organizations on a wide array of national, state, regional and local issues. We have demonstrated that leaders, stakeholders and citizens with diverse perspectives can work together to move past their positions and differences and build common ground for consensus solutions.

The experienced staff at the FCRC Consensus Center remain committed to building the collaborative capacity among leaders, stakeholders and citizens that can enable them to produce both quality and lasting consensus solutions for our communities going forward.

Hal Beardall, Director, FCRC Consensus Center