Cabot Dow Associates is an independently owned human resources consulting firm, specializing in public sector and private sector human resource management issues.  

Our experience runs the spectrum of recruitment, classification/compensation, best practice approaches to public and private sector management: and, specifically, talent acquisition, recruitment, cost of compensation, benefits, negotiations, mediation, interest arbitration of police and fire contract disputes and administration of collective bargaining agreements.  CDA has a broad understanding of dispute resolution and expertise in how private and public agencies operate, the structure of governmental and private organizations, the role of elected officials, private boards and public commissions in setting labor policy and the need to be responsive to customers in providing services.

CDA has over eighty years of combined experience in public and private sector management and, specifically, in structuring compensation, negotiations and administration of collective bargaining agreements. Each negotiator and consultant has a broad understanding of dispute resolution and expertise in how private and public agencies operate.  This includes compensation systems, the structure of organizations, the role of elected officials, private boards and public commissions in setting labor policy.

Recent consulting projects include:

• Collective bargaining (negotiations, mediation, interest arbitration)
• Employee compensation (selection of comparators, total compensation studies)
• Employee selection (executive recruitment, retention, promotions, background checks)
• Management proposals on selected subjects (drafting contract language)
• Labor relations and Personnel policies (creation and administration)