Designing & Leading Public Participation - Hosted by IAP2 USA

  • September 02, 2025
  • September 05, 2025
  • 4 sessions
  • September 02, 2025, 1:00 PM 5:00 PM (EDT)
  • September 03, 2025, 1:00 PM 5:00 PM (EDT)
  • September 04, 2025, 1:00 PM 5:00 PM (EDT)
  • September 05, 2025, 1:00 PM 5:00 PM (EDT)
  • Online with Kimberly Horndeski
  • 22

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Designing & Leading Public Participation

Designing & Leading Public Participation (P2) is a Level 2 course that introduces practitioners to the design and plan phases of the practice framework, providing them with the opportunity to develop P2 plans. This includes scoping, community mapping, determining purpose and objectives and levels of influence, choosing appropriate methods and managing resources, while considering the needs of diverse audiences. The course is suitable for practitioners who are leading the planning and implementation of P2 processes.

Course objectives:

1. For a real-world scenario, design an engagement process and plan that includes:

  • Develop a clear scope of the work, problem or opportunity with identified negotiables and non-negotiables
  • Conduct detailed stakeholder analysis, community mapping and equity analysis
  • Identify appropriate roles and levels of influence for key participants
  • Establish clear engagement purpose and objectives and success criteria/measures to suit scenario
  • Identify relevant profiles of engagement
  • Conduct a detailed risk/opportunities assessment
  • Identify key roles for senior leaders and decision makers

2. Explore principles and approaches for equity, diversity and inclusion, and apply them to stakeholder analysis

3. Embed digital strategies, platforms, tools and methods as part of the plan and process

4. Develop an evaluation framework to suit the scenario

5. Identify key roles and resources needed to implement the P2/engagement plan

6. Develop and apply a suitable presentation to senior leaders that will secure commitment and resources for the P2/engagement plan

7. Identify the many different contexts of engagement, including the elements present in more complex engagement scenarios

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    Trainer: Kimberly Horndeski

    Kimberly is a certified mediator, facilitator, and the Executive Director for Community Consulting LLC. Her work focuses on integrating policy and science to engage stakeholders, develop strategic plans, promote collaboration, and transform conflict into successful strategies for the future. She has led multiple state and national working groups to overcome challenges and reach consensus. Her projects include bottom-up approaches, such as working with nonprofits to develop effective strategies to engage elected officials in adopting initiatives, and top-down approaches, such as assisting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service throughout the nation to incorporate stakeholder values in the decision-making processes for federally-listed threatened and endangered species.



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