Outsourced ED Partnership

GLDPartners has developed an innovative model for economic development delivery. While it won’t be right for every situation, in the appropriate setting our Outsourced ED Partnership is a tool for next-generation regional and local economic development. Our team’s economic development credentials, global presence, business relationships and business intelligence provide a unique partnership platform to support a limited number of economic development organizations. We see our tools as additive to an existing organization’s capabilities and when combined with our resources, create a special public-private partnership capacity.

What is it exactly? The GLDPartners Outsourced ED Partnership has 6 main components:

1. Business Leadership: GLDPartners assumes a day-to-day management role in an organization, placing an executive with world-class business credentials into the organization’s Executive Director or President role who would be fully accountable to the entity’s Board or political leadership. But in this case, GLDPartners would be accountable to the Board or Mayor, creating a depth of accountability tied to defined success metrics. From a management perspective, existing staff would remain employees but on a daily basis there would be a business professional with the weight of GLDPartners and its resources behind it.
2. Strategy: Some economic development organizations periodically undertake a targeted industry or strategy study. This can be expensive and in many cases, while interesting, doesn’t generally provide much explicit value. Via GLDPartners’ Outsourced ED Partnership, we develop an Annual Business Strategy for the entity, which is then supported throughout the year with ongoing business intelligence and sector information. We see the combined tools as continuous and seamless strategy development and implementation.
3. Business Development Emphasis: Our leadership will bring a