Economic Development Secrets

This month's episode of Economic Development Secrets features Kevin Carter, Executive Director of the High Ground of Texas. Kevin discusses rural economic development and strategic regionalism.

This month's episode of Economic Development Secrets features Kristin Reese, Executive Director of the Cleveland County Economic Development Partnership. Kristin discusses workforce development, site selection, and economic development trends.

In this two episode special, Paul Scheuren and Nicole D'Souza of Impact DataSource discuss economic development advice and other tips shared during their Texas Economic Development Best Practices Summits this Spring. In this second episode, they discuss evaluating and presenting projects and CRM systems that help you keep track of your active projects.

In this two episode special, Paul Scheuren and Nicole D'Souza of Impact DataSource discuss economic development advice and other tips shared during their Texas Economic Development Best Practices Summits this Spring. This first episode covers information on strategic plans, marketing, and business retention and expansion.

This month's episode of Economic Development Secrets features Sean Stockard, President and CEO of the ED Alliance for Brazoria County, TX. Sean discusses the importance of introducing students to vocational trades early so that they know that they have options when planning their future.

This month's episode of Economic Development Secrets features Tanner Jones, Research Analyst for Baldwin County, AL Economic Development Alliance. We discuss all things data and research. Tanner shares advice on how you can start relying on data more heavily.

During this month's installment of Economic Development Secrets, Mary Jacobs, Assistant City Manager in Sierra Vista, Arizona shares how her community has developed an economic development department and strategy. We also discuss national economic development trends.

This month we were joined by Bill Martin, Executive Director of the Greater Osceola Partnership for Economic Prosperity. Bill has worked in economic development for over 40 years in state, regional and local economic development groups. He shares the most exciting economic development project that he has worked on during his whole career and explains how his region offers different programs to edu...

This month's special guest is Michael Bunt, Director of Economic Development at the Artesia, New Mexico Chamber of Commerce. Michael shares with the audience about their incentive war chest and the importance of getting involved with neighboring EDO's at the state and local level.

This month, Jeffrey Finkle, President and CEO of the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) draws upon his 30 years of ED experience and shares his "economic development secrets". As the leader of the world’s largest economic development membership organization, Jeff shares a unique point of view of the economic development field. We discuss the history of IEDC, the process to become ce...

This month's episode of Economic Development Secrets features Lucienne Pears, Director of Economic Development in Charlotte County, Florida. She shares about their Certified Sites program and how they do economic development in a primarily retired community.

This month we were joined by Ben White, Vice President of Economic Development for the Round Rock, Texas Chamber of Commerce. We discuss how Round Rock's economic development activities are truly a product of different partnerships and their 8 Pillars of Economic Generation.

Dan Tobergte, President/CEO of Northern Kentucky Tri-ED joined us for this month's episode of Economic Development Secrets. We discuss their award winning BRE program and their Motor Vehicle License Fee funding structure.

This month, SeonAh Kendall, Economic Health Manager for Fort Collins, Colorado shares some wisdom that she's learned through her time working in Economic Development. We discuss how their manufacturing partnership educates students about the field, how her organization was one of the first in the nation to have a Sustainability Service Area, and how their downtown was the inspiration for Walt Disn...

In this episode of Economic Development Secrets, we sit down with Steve Jenkins, President of the Fond du Lac County, WI Economic Development Corporation.

In this first installment of our new podcast series, Economic Development Secrets, we are joined by Jim Gandy, President of the Frisco, TX Economic Development Corporation.