Stakeholder mediation

Our experts actively establish connections with stakeholders and mediate between your interests and their objectives. Mediation assumes a common interest between your objectives and the stakeholders.

That is the fundamental difference with lobbying. Whereas lobbying focuses on a unilateral benefit, the mediation route seeks common interests between both parties. This is why mediation succeeds where lobbying fails.

Examples of stakeholder mediation:

• Mediation in the stakeholder process during a merger of three regional governmental agencies.
• Offering counselling to a publishing group during social negotiations, internal communication and stakeholder management, varying from unions to media.
• Active mediation between varying interests by means of feedback groups and advisory councils for a key infrastructure project in Flanders.