Acknowledging that every community is different, Kinetic West takes a highly customized approach to designing community and stakeholder engagement approaches that meet client needs while honoring the specific context of a place. We help our clients better understand community priorities, facilitate relationship building, and identify solutions informed by those most impacted.

Community & Stakeholder Engagement

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In practice this looks like:

Honoring experts and centering those most impacted: We take an asset-based approach to honor the unique contributions those with lived experience already bring to this work and engage community members in solutioning.
Being relational and reciprocal: We focus first on building durable relationships to root our work in mutual benefit for both our client and those we’re engaging throughout the process.This includes appropriately compensating individuals for their contributions.
Centering Equity: We recognize the systemic challenges that have created barriers to access, opportunity, and engagement and design our approaches to be accessible and ensure we reduce barriers for those who have historically gone unheard or overlooked.  
Operating with transparency and fidelity: We set clear expectations, ask for feedback, communicate impact, and present our findings with fidelity. Related, we never want to make promises we can’t keep and are honest about what community input can and cannot influence. We encourage clients into deeper relationships with community rather than creating cover as consultants.
Grounding ourselves in local context: Place, people, culture and history are important considerations that we integrate into an intentional approach, holding both historical and present-day experiences of (in)equity, (in)access, and (in)justice.