Deep management-side labor experience
Bargaining, impasse, arbitration, grievance resolution, contract administration, and successorship issues.
About BCG
Seasoned judgment for consequential workplace decisions.
Braun Consulting Group helps public agencies and private-sector organizations resolve difficult workforce issues, strengthen HR systems, and move important decisions from analysis into implementation.
Firm overview
A senior-level partnership, directly accessible to clients.
Founded in 1980 and led by Robert R. Braun, Jr., Owner and Managing Consultant, Braun Consulting Group has served more than 1,100 clients across a broad range of industries, union environments, and workplace challenges.
Strengthened by Principal HR Consultant Jessica Neill, SPHR, CLRP, the firm brings more than five decades of labor and personnel expertise together with 19 years of Washington public-sector HR leadership. BCG’s perspective is also informed by experience on both the labor and management sides of workplace issues.
Four clients have partnered with BCG for more than 30 years, and each has grown to at least twice its original size during that relationship.
Both practitioners work directly with clients. Organizations receive seasoned judgment, responsive communication, and hands-on support without a handoff to junior staff.
Engagements can be structured as a defined project, short-term surge capacity, ongoing advisory support, or embedded leadership during transition.
1,100+clients served since 1980
500+labor agreements negotiated
4client partnerships lasting more than 30 years
50+years of labor and HR practice
The value we bring
Public-sector fluency
Firsthand knowledge of Washington agencies, elected and appointed leadership, union environments, budgets, and public accountability.
Practical implementation
Strategy connected to the systems, communication, documentation, and follow-through needed to make it work.
A balanced decision lens
Consistency, fairness, fiscal responsibility, operational needs, equity, and the human experience of work.
Our shared principle
Curiosity before conclusions.
Clarity before action.
Humanity throughout.(SM)
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