Our keynotes speeches and workshops are customized to meet your objectives. We will meet with you to establish the desired outcomes, inquire about the participant's profiles and, develop a program that works for you and your audience. Oh and I also use Guy Kawasaki's 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint (everybody at least once got an almost death experience from those presentations) - so here it is: a PowerPoint presentation should have ten slides, last no more than twenty minutes, and contain no font smaller than thirty points.
Here are some of the topics covered by Marie-Josée: strategy, innovation, performance and results in the economic development agencies; the impact of new economics on your organization; the myths on entrepreneurship and innovation; the role of the economic development and civic leader; the best practices in our field and beyond, etc.
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Economic Gardening: an entrepreneurial approach to economic development - the Littleton (CO) story
A common practice in economic development is to place almost all bets on business attraction. Learn how Littleton (Colorado) took a sharp right from the "wisdom of crowds" at the end of the eighties and benefited from growing their economy from within.
Communities and Innovation - the cases of Littleton CO and North Adams MA
Why do public service institutions like EDOs and municipal governments need to innovate? Well, they represent a sector that has grown faster during this century than the private sector - three to five times as fast - and maybe excessively we might add. Indeed, rapid change makes obsolete a good many of the old organizations and businesses as we can all witness. At the same time, such a trying period creates opportunities to take on new endeavours and for experimentation. Learn how leaders in Littleton (Colorado) and North Adams (Massachusetts) saw what was there but not yet visible by focusing outward.
Consultative Committee, City of LaSalle, at the center: Mrs. Manon Barbe (in red), Mayor of Ville LaSalle, surrounded by Mr. Pierre Plante (left), president of the board of CDEL LaSalle and VP at Delmar Chemicals and Marie-Josée Loiselle (right), president of Nuno ID inc.
Strategy is not planning or why all those plans fail
How many of those "strategic plans" accumulate on shelves instead of being incarnated in tangible results in your community? There are as many opinions on what strategy is as there are consultants "specializing" in it (yes that many…). For us strategy refers to being prepared to exploit the unexpected - this is why "plans" usually kill strategy. Learn to avoid being "driven to do something" which focus your operational efforts on the "how" before having defined the "what". Learn a model that focus on asking the right (tough) questions and its application in case studies.
If you don't understand innovation, you don't understand business: debunking myths about innovation
The starting point for your own organization and for your business community is to recognize that change is not a threat but an opportunity. A lot of misconceptions abound in matters of innovation: we imagine chaos, artists, gut feelings, "gun ho" entrepreneurs, crazy geniuses sweating it out in their lab, a high tech product with 150 features that nobody finds interesting or valuable except the inventor, etc. Because of those misconceptions, we are ill prepared to commit resources where the sources of innovation reside and learned a disciplined process. Learn to go beyond the 5 myths on innovation and how to create discipline in that area in your organization by searching for the 7 sources of innovation.
Putting management back into economic development: performance and results in non profit organizations
Most economic development organizations think in terms of physical "endowments": capital, land, buildings, incentives, headcounts, etc. But wherever we have only those things, we don't achieve development. Economic development is a matter of directing human energies on the right things which is the task of management. Since EDOs are not merely delivering a service - you also want to bring about change in others (entrepreneurs, CEOs, constituencies, etc.) - so they can ultimately produce the prosperity. Until that happened, you have had no results, it was mainly good intentions. Learn the do's and don't's of management strategies that produce performance & results.
The Impact of New Economics on EDOs
How to understand what will drive the community's economy forward: beyond pie charts and bar graphs. Learn what the financial & economic mainstream media and papers are not telling you which impact your work now and for years to come.
The Role of the Economic Development Leader
How it's not about you but the mission: the job of the leader is to think through and define the mission of its organization. You want leaders who take their roles seriously not themselves seriously. Learn how to make a difference, be an example, what you want to be remembered for, etc.
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