Economic development strategy, systems, and projects built to be used.
I help communities, regional partnerships, and economic development organizations build clearer strategies, stronger systems, and more practical project frameworks — from investment attraction and workforce initiatives to dashboards, reporting, BRE, and CRM-enabled delivery.
Practical Economic Development
Economic development work often struggles with vague strategy, weak reporting, and too little structure for real execution. I help organizations make their work clearer, more measurable, and easier to implement.
Strategy
- investment attraction strategy
- sector opportunity analysis
- regional economic development strategy
- initiative and program design
- governance and operating model development
Systems
- BRE system design
- CRM workflow design
- dashboard and KPI reporting
- project tracking and accountability tools
- board, council, and funder reporting frameworks
Execution
- implementation support
- workshop and stakeholder facilitation
- fractional or interim leadership support
- funding strategy and grant alignment
- special project structuring and partner coordination
Selected Project Profiles
Selected project profiles showing the kinds of economic development systems, initiatives, and practical tools I’ve helped build.
Building a Regional Workforce Initiative
How to move from regional partnership language to measurable activity, employer value, and usable reporting.
Designing a BRE and CRM System
How to turn business retention and expansion work into a usable system for relationship management, issue tracking, and follow-up.
Creating Dashboards for Councils, Boards, and Funders
How to report economic development work in a way that is visual, credible, and useful to decision-makers.
Structuring a Regional Investment Attraction Initiative
Governance, mandate, and operating logic for regional investment attraction efforts.
Designing Grant-Funded Economic Development Initiatives
Structuring practical initiatives that can attract external funding and still function in practice.
Sector Opportunity Analysis
Clearer framing of sector opportunities, constraints, and realistic development paths.
Economic Development Strategy Review for Small Communities
This offer is for smaller communities that may not have the budget for a full-time EDO but would benefit from a practical outside perspective on their economic development strategy, priorities, or structure.
What’s included:
- Review of community strategy
- 30-minute call
- written summary
- 3–5 practical recommendations
What’s not included:
- full strategy rewrite
- stakeholder engagement
- detailed market research
- full implementation plan
Founder & Principal
I’ve worked across consulting and municipal economic development leadership roles, with experience in investment attraction, workforce initiatives, regional collaboration, KPI reporting, BRE systems, and multi-partner project development.
My work is focused on helping organizations build clearer strategies, stronger systems, and more usable frameworks for action.