After 32 years working in economic development, I’ve noticed something.
There’s no real home for people doing this work in the UK.
No professional community where practitioners can share what’s actually working, get honest answers to difficult questions, or access decent CPD without sitting through another generic leadership course.
That’s why I built Economic Development World.
It’s a community for UK economic development practitioners โ combined authority staff, local authority ED teams, consultants โ who want to get better at what they do and connect with others who understand the job.
Founder membership at a special discount is open until 20 April.
If this sounds like your kind of place, the link is at https://www.economicdevelopment.world/join
๐๐ฆ๐ข๐ฅ๐บ ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ต๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ ๐บ๐ฐ๐ถ๐ณ ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ช๐ค ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ท๐ฆ๐ญ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ฑ๐ณ๐ข๐ค๐ต๐ช๐ค๐ฆ?
Economic Development World is a new CPD site and pracitioner community for local and regional economic development, hosting 15 hours of courses, workbooks, live events and workshops.
๐๐ฆ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐ง๐ฐ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ณ ๐ฎ๐ฆ๐ฎ๐ฃ๐ฆ๐ณ – ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ด๐ฉ๐ข๐ฑ๐ฆ ๐ต๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ฎ๐ถ๐ฏ๐ช๐ต๐บ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ฅ ๐ง๐ถ๐ต๐ถ๐ณ๐ฆ ๐ค๐ฐ๐ฏ๐ต๐ฆ๐ฏ๐ต ๐ต๐ฐ ๐ฎ๐ค๐ช๐ง ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฅ๐ด.
๐ญ. ๐๐ผ๐๐ฟ๐๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐๐ฃ๐ ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐น ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ฅ๐ฒ๐ด๐ถ๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฐ๐ผ๐ป๐ผ๐บ๐ถ๐ฐ ๐๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐น๐ผ๐ฝ๐บ๐ฒ๐ป๐:
Access to 15+ hours of ๐ผ๐ป-๐ฑ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ courses across 8 economic development disciplines (Foundation Knowledge; Policy, Strategy & Intelligence; Enterprise, Industry & Innovation; Employment & Skills; Inclusion & Equality; Place & Infrastructure; Climate & Sustainability; and Management & Practice).
Aimed at early career professionals with 0 to 5 years of experience.
A Workbook Library (strategy, FDI from scratch, innovation strengths, economic participation challenges, develop a winning idea… and many more).
๐ฎ. ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐น๐๐๐ถ๐๐ฒ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐ ๐ฒ๐บ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ฝ: ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฐ๐, ๐ฃ๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฎ๐น ๐๐ฐ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐๐ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ฒ๐ฟ (๐๐น๐ฒ๐ป๐ป):
– 3x Monthly 1-to-1 Mentoring Sessions with Glenn in the first three months.
– 1x Career Planning Session to guide your professional development.
– 6 Exclusive Workshops with your Founder Member cohort in the first year.
๐ฏ. ๐ฆ๐ฒ๐๐ฒ๐ป-๐ฑ๐ฎ๐-๐๐ฟ๐ถ๐ฎ๐น – ๐ฐ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฐ๐ฒ๐น ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ ๐๐ถ๐บ๐ฒ. You can check out the site for 7 days, no credit card required.
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