Lawrence Susskind

City Planner, Mediator, and MIT Professor

  • The Consensus Building Approach

    01/03/2013 12:00 am

    Consensus building is an approach to group decision-making that puts a premium on problem-solving.  (The problem, of course, is how to get everyone on board.)…

The Consensus Building Approach

Larry Susskind is Ford Professor of Urban and Environmental Planning at MIT and Vice-Chair of the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. His blog reports on the way consensus building and negotiation tools are being used to ensure more democratic decision-making. Larry is also founder and chief knowledge officer of the Consensus Building Institute.