Below you will find project specifics for "Public Sector" clients
What makes a great place to live, work and play? Answering such a challenge is called Placemaking. And there are few good answers in the Dallas-Fort Worth region. Strip malls abound. It takes a car to get anywhere. For the City of Mesquite, it’s an urgent challenge. Over the next several years the undeveloped, four-square-mile area along I-20 inside the …
For the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles, at the behest of DMV’s board, Conbrio was part of a team of consultants that assessed all levels and activities of the department to understand its effectiveness and recommend changes. Conbrio was charged with assessing the TDMV’s culture and found it defensive and, in some parts of the organization, toxic. In one-on-one interviews …
For DFW Airport over three years, Conbrio designed and led both executive and board retreats which defined execution themes for the year for new and continuing airport programs and projects. The airport’s staff and board, comprised of the mayors of Fort Worth and Dallas and appointees of each city’s city councils are responsible for a $900 million a year enterprise …
The World Café is a process for creating collaborative dialogue around questions that matter in corporate, government and community settings. Café participants – a minimum of 20 people and as many as 100 or more – seated at small tables of four discuss a current problem put before them, its deeper implications and possible actions to take to solve the …
Nearly every city at one time or another holds workshops for its mayor and council members. Some cities hold workshops every year. The workshops serve at least two purposes: Update or completely rewrite the city’s strategic plan. Build trust and common vision so mayors and council members can work better together as a team to further interests of their cities. …
For the City of Mesquite, Texas, Conbrio worked with senior leaders to change the city’s development review process and capture the new process on a visual storymap. City Manager Ted Barron, assistant city managers, department heads, planners and engineers involved in the development review process were frustrated and angry because the process was broken. Members of the development community complained …
For the North Texas Tollway Authority, Conbrio Managing Principal Bill Bancroft led a multi-pronged project including strategic planning, change management, culture assessment and team performance. Because board members and staff believed they were left out of the process to write the previous strategic plan, they had little time or interest in a new strategic planning initiative. However, because state statues require …
For the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Conbrio designed and led a project to assess the culture of the 100-person finance division led by the university’s chief financial officer. The university, established in 2009 and with an endowment of $20 billion, is ranked among the top 20 universities in Asia and the Middle East. …
