Founded in Moncton in 2003 as Axiom Strategic Consultants, our firm embarked on a mission to provide expert advisory services, initially focusing on the private sector. Aspiring to expand, we targeted economic development, strategic planning, and governmental affairs for public and non-profit clients. This led us to a period of strategic refinement from 2009-2023, expanding capabilities and culminating in November 2023 rebranding signaling a renewed commitment to comprehensive, customized municipal consulting, including:
Economic Development Strategies: We develop plans driving local growth and employment opportunities to foster robust economies.
Governance and Policy Formulation: Our experts craft governance structures, policies, and instruments aligning with strategic visions.
Sustainable Housing Solutions: We address pressing housing challenges through affordable, tailored strategies.
Government Relations: We assist in securing financing and partnerships by navigating complex government landscapes.
Strategic Communications: Our plans enhance municipality-resident relationships through transparency and trust.
Compliance and Efficiency Guidance: We provide regulatory compliance and policy optimization advice for operational excellence.
Leadership Training: Our governance training programs equip officials with best practices for effective decision-making.
We deliver practical, innovative solutions with community values for positive change and economic resilience.
The inventor of online GIS data tools for economic development organizations, GIS Planning’s technology is recognized as the industry standard, currently serving five Canadian provinces, 6 out of 10 Americans (including 30 statewide economic development organizations), Switzerland, several counties in the UK, Murcia (Spain), Bordeaux (France), Dusseldorf (Germany), Gothenburg (Sweden), Italy, Kyiv (Ukraine), Latvia, Poland, Finland, Mexico, Panama, and more. Economic developers choose ZoomProspector Enterprise (GIS site selection software) and our six stand-alone Intelligence Components for the outstanding range and depth of current data, analytical tools, ease of use, mobile optimization, and seamless integration with organizational websites. Showing off the most important features of your location is easier than ever with our powerful, new cloud-based ZoomTour software. Add text, images, video, maps and data to build interactive tours on any theme you like, from your region’s industrial parks to talent attraction to your tourist top 10s – or whatever else you’d like to explore. Our clients enjoy exceptional client services and marketing support. A service from the Financial Times, GIS Planning provides best-in-class corporate site selection technology and on-going innovation.
Helping rural communities thrive!
Kewin Consulting works with First Nations, Metis Communities, Municipalities and the Businesses that wish to work with them on projects related to Planning, Economic Development, Organizational Excellence and Effective Partnership Development.
Retail Attractions is an economic development firm that believes relationships are the key to closing deals. Our staff is dedicated to fostering partnerships that benefit our clients and the retailers and developers we work with. We have strong working relationships with over 70 developers and hundreds of restaurants, retailers and hotels.
We create expert, tailored small business content for government and corporations seeking to engage Canadian small business owners. We produce how-to articles, blogs, guides, whitepapers, videos, case studies, infographics, interactive tools, templates, podcasts, webinars and seminars designed to help small business owners acquire new skills and information they can use to power their enterprises.
All of our content is developed in peer-to-peer language because it comes from one experienced entrepreneur to another. We “speak small business”. Company President Roger Pierce is one of Canada’s top small business experts and the founder of 12 ventures.
Our content will help advance your local economic development efforts by providing useful how-to information to existing and new business owners. We can also develop content that points to local resources available to entrepreneurs. Please contact us today at 416-302-5251 for more information, or visit www.piercewords.com.
Success seeking and/or growth-oriented organizations ‘get it’.
To this end, these leaders understand the need to foster creativity and entrepreneurial behavior. What is often lost is the fact that an innovation culture will not happen unless embedded in strategy. The design of strategy plus the implementers (structure and controls) must be addressed in order to enable an organization to leverage the creative capacity of the resources that reside in the firm.
Geoffery insists that each client is unique and, accordingly, works with the leadership to design a meaningful program that meets the client’s objectives.
Geoffery has also worked with EcDev agencies to design programs for delivery to organizations within their region.
From FourSight Assessments to a strategic ‘innovation’ audit, the goal is always the same: To deliver a high-impact, long-term program that enables renewed growth and brand enhancement.
Based in Ottawa, McSweeney & Associates Consulting Inc. has served clients across Ontario, throughout Canada and in Central and Eastern Europe with management consulting services in economic development, real estate development and municipal management since January 2001. We have completed over 100 projects for various economic development organizations and over 20 projects internationally. The McSweeney team is driven by a passion for improving the quality of life in clients’ communities through economic development community capacity-building. Our firm inspires our clients to create communities that are economically sustainable and sensitive to cultural, environmental and social needs. Our work is providing advice, guidance, and tools for communities to achieve sustainable growth, to attract new business, to diversify, and to retain and grow existing businesses long past the time the consulting engagement ends.
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