Complex problems require carefully crafted, inclusive, and systematic approaches to develop meaningful solutions that can be effectively implemented.

Cortex designs, facilitates, and manages processes to solve complex problems. Our staff includes professional facilitators and an internationally certified Project Management Professional (PMP).

We have supported scientific, technical, and multi-stakeholder processes that span several years and involve multi-million dollar budgets by:

• advising on appropriate governance structures, terms of reference, and protocols
   
• facilitating development of strategic and business plans
   
• undertaking research and analysis, preparing backgrounders and briefing notes to help guide decision-making
   
• developing and maintaining password-protected project management websites
   
• formulating and administering requests for proposals
   
• preparing contracts, monitoring expenditures and implementation of workplans, and tracking project deliverables
   
• developing communication plans and products for technical and non-technical audiences
   
• eliciting values and related indicators from diverse groups for use in conservation planning models, and assessing the impacts of management scenarios on those values.