About me

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I help people figure out what they want to do together, and then I help them get it done. I work with coalitions, cooperatives, and public interest organizations navigating genuinely hard problems: the kind where the stakeholders have conflicting incentives, there’s no obvious path forward, and no simple solution. In these situations, I aspire to empower people to perform a kind of social alchemy – creating new possibilities to reshape the systems in which they live and work.

I love to work with people who are building a better future.
I’m passionate about the commons – i.e., resources that we share.
I believe that institutions function best when democratically governed: shaped by those who do the work, and those they serve.

I can help with:

  • Wayfinding through collective action problems in complex, multi-stakeholder landscapes
  • Developing cooperative governance models for shared infrastructure and open networks
  • Designing and facilitating participatory events and processes

Primary Projects

I founded the Open Referral Initiative, an international community of practice dedicated to the promotion of public infrastructure for information about the resources available to people in need. I facilitate Open Referral’s consensus-based development of data specifications that are now internationally adopted as industry standards for human service directory information exchange, and I help communities establish sustainable resource data supply chains.

I co-founded the Climate Resilient Insurance Strategy Project (CRISP), which facilitates multi-stakeholder cross-sector collaboration at the nexus of property insurance and climate adaptation. I work with public sector leaders, climate adaptation planners, and insurance industry innovators to design participatory activities that have resulted in groundbreaking pilot projects and coordinated policy action.

I provide strategic support for public health institutions such as the Gravity Project.

I am also a visiting scholar in the Data and Information Governance program at Indiana University’s Ostrom Workshop on the Commons. In this capacity, I have published multiple pieces in books about commons governance.

My CV.

Some Testimonials

“Greg Bloom is the first consultant I have worked with, as an employee of state government, that was worth far more than we paid for him. He is an excellent facilitator, thought partner, and subject matter expert who worked effectively with our diverse set of partners and stakeholders to generate consensus on policy recommendations for social care data use and capacities…. Greg was able to weave together multiple inputs into coherent ideas and decision points, and navigate tricky, sometimes contentious, discussions to drive toward us toward consensus. 5/5 stars.”

“Greg partnered with us to develop our partnership strategy and sustainability model. He brought a creative, strengths-based approach that helped us rethink how to build on what we already did well while driving meaningful innovation. He was especially skilled at bringing diverse stakeholders together—from frontline staff and community partners to senior leadership and our Board—to shape aligned, practical solutions.”

“Greg aligned his methodology with our particular needs and context, and creatively worked within our constraints, so that we co-designed an effective strategy that was careful enough to succeed and ambitious enough to get people excited about adopting bold and innovative solutions.“

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