Building inclusive economies.
We are a community and economic development consulting agency.
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Is your organization interested in visiting new markets? Or do you need assistance with corporate tours for your industry? We help coordinate regional tours. Meet with economic development leaders, ecosystem builders, investors, startups in fast-growing markets and connect with senior level leaders in thriving markets.
Innovation Tours & Events
It's time for new and fresh perspectives on corporate and community leadership.
Many of us have been told leadership is about a particular personality or maybe even charisma. Or we've been told, it's about asserting yourself and being the loudest person in the room. Let's make a paradigm shift. We believe leadership is about IMPACT. Find your leadership voice regardless of your personality type or background and discover how to lead with impact in your organization and community.
Training diverse leaders to achieve impact.
Our community and economic development services are around workforce, innovation and entrepreneurship. We can assist your city, county or nonprofit with developing strategies, program and outreach focused on business attraction, workforce development and startup innovation.
Economic
Development.
We help you communicate your impact and reach. How has your organization contributed to the community? How do you measure it and communicate your impact to the world?
Impact Reports.
Our leadership training focuses on IMPACT. We help you build influential leaders who achieve positive impact internally with teams and externally in the community. Please inquire about our training topics.
Leadership
Training.
We assist nonprofits with creating strong programming structured to attract support and engagement including membership plans, communication strategies, program curriculum and more. How do you build a strong program with strong operations? How do you leverage grant funding into operational revenue? Our services are around programming development and we can also assist with association and membership engagement strategies.
Nonprofit Programming.
How does your organization engage with the community? Are you connected? Community engagement is one of today's best marketing strategies. We can help you build partnership strategies including workforce programs such as internships, apprenticeships and career pathways or outreach marketing to help you better engage with the community and elevate your brand.
Community
Engagement.
Looking to discover new markets? We can help your organization or venture capital firm to host your next innovation event or regional tour. We can host tours of your city or region or set up market visits to help you build connections with community and economic development leaders. We also love to help host events around economic development, innovation, startups or venture capital connections.
Innovation Tours and Events.
Services
Making
Impact
Mission
Our mission is simple...IMPACT. To help community partners build thriving and inclusive economies through creating and supporting strong programming and training diverse community leaders. We want to help build a brighter tomorrow.
Our Why
We believe in closing the disparity gap and addressing economic disparity through creating and promoting programs and empowering community leaders.
Support the
rising tide.
Our favorite quote is "Rising tides lift all boats." Our goal is to create inclusive economies through our work and we believe it takes uplifting and thriving leaders to lift the tide in our towns, cities and regions. Our hope is that through our work, we will help lift the tide for all and create thriving communities.
Leaders were born for impact.
Here are some of our favorite quotes.
"It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it."
- Nelson Mandela
“No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"No American is ever made better off by pulling a fellow American down, and every American is made better off whenever any one of us is made better off. A rising tide raises all boats."
- President John F. Kennedy
People are first.
Data drives results.
Leadership is impact.
Support the rising tide.
Our Values.
summer 2024