High Stakes, High Impact Public Engagement Consulting & Training

We open possibility, cultivate collaboration and spark change through dialogue.

We involve the community, bringing people together to facilitate conversations that make an impact.

Who We Are

Solving the unsolvable starts with bringing people together - because anything is possible with a little dialogue.

Dialogue Partners is a nationally-recognized public engagement consultancy. Our expertise helps you to engage with the public, facilitate conversations, and understand the perspectives of those who are interested and impacted. The public engagement experts at Dialogue Partners have become thought leaders in engagement, facilitation, and conflict transformation.

  • When people start talking with each other, not at one another

  • When we escape yes or no, black and white dichotomies

  • When we realize that many of the tools we use to communicate are pushing us away from having real conversations

... we’re on the path to something sustainable.

When your organization faces a divisive issue with diverse perspectives, we're the people you call.

Whether it’s getting your team into a room to talk after a serious breach of trust, or designing a multi-platform engagement strategy that gives thousands of community members a seat at the table, our solutions are as unique as your needs.

Dialogue Partners provides civic engagement coaching and mentoring to practitioners and organizations to help build community engagement capacity and ensure best practice implementation.

We conduct expert reviews of your existing public engagement and knowledge building initiatives. We have evaluated countless guidance documents, process design, consultation plans, and toolkits.

Our community engagement experts can also help you craft new toolkits, manuals, guides, information sessions, speeches, journal articles, and web content related to public engagement and facilitation.

CASE STUDIES

Come Train With Us!

Are you looking to enhance your skills in community engagement and facilitation? We offer industry-recognized training, both online & in-person at all levels.

Courses, Workshops & Webinars

For practitioners at all levels of experience, we offer hands-on training and one-on-one mentoring from our experienced practitioners.

We offer customizable training courses, workshops, and webinars. Once you have experienced one of our sessions, you will walk out empowered to creating meaningful and productive public engagement programs on your own.

Meet Kim Hyshka, Principal

Creating alignment when there are deep divisions isn’t easy.

It takes a certain personality to do what we do. Dialogue Partners provides our clients with unfettered creative energy, undivided attention and hard-earned expertise, and it all stems from our leader Kim Hyshka.

Kim has been a leader in the field of civic engagement and public participation for over a decade, amassing a list of clients that spans the corporate elite and the highest levels of government.

What we offer isn’t about massaging messaging or playing the PR game. Real conversations are about honesty, vulnerability—even intimacy. We pretty much guarantee you will laugh, learn and form bonds throughout the process, even (or especially!) when things get tough.