Decision sponsor vs decision facilitator

[michaelwood]

In our consent decision making docs we define a facilitator as

Facilitator: Someone willing to run the consent decision making process. They make sure that everyone involved has engaged with the proposal and that all reactions are understood correctly. This person is not usually the proposer.

In the "As a decision sponsor we have":

As a decision sponsor you have overall responsibility for moving a decision through the decision pipeline. [...]

To me a 'sponsor' has a vested interest in a particular outcome and I think that doesn't always need to be the case (in fact it can be an advantage not to be) and may shrink the pool of people willing to do it. So I would suggest we change sponsor to facilitator to make the terminology consistent. Alternatively we could change it in the consent decision making documentation.

[ScatteredInk]

Thanks @michaelwood, that makes sense to me. Change the terminology here as "decision sponsor" potentially embeds a practice that, as you point out, may be less than optimal.