'lead to consensus' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when two or more parties are trying to reach an agreement. For example, "The members of the committee discussed their points of view until they were able to reach a compromise that would lead to consensus."
Equal participation in searching for a settlement is likely to lead to consensus.
A new text, said the Belgian, Louis Michel, "could lead to consensus".
In a buy note, Bank of America Merrill Lynch said: Next reports its 2014 results on 20 March and we expect these to lead to consensus earnings upgrades given Next's online momentum and an improving outlook for the UK consumer.
Next reports its 2014 results on 20 March and we expect these to lead to consensus earnings upgrades given Next's online momentum and an improving outlook for the UK consumer.
Some lawmakers believe the shifting membership of the Senate has contributed to the rising partisanship, since it reduces the number of long-term, across-the-aisle relationships that can lead to consensus and compromise.
There, even a small fraction of 'open-minded' agents with relatively high tolerance may bridge the opinion difference between the rest of the agents and lead to consensus.
That in turn may lead to consensus-driven votes and lengthy discussions.
During that period, iteration between evolving engineering constraints and the relative science potential of candidate sites led to consensus on four final sites.
But representation is the essential concept, and it is the process of fitting representation to reality that, eventually, leads to consensus, acceptance of a version of the past as true.
"Everyone can make a contribution," he said to interviewer Rory Cellan-Jones, who asked him about what Hegarty had said earlier on the matter ("the danger of collaboration is that it leads to consensus").
Rather, it's the confluence of the broad weight of evidence that leads to consensus.
