CPD, training and skills in Local and Regional Economic Development
- 15 hours of on-demand courses covering the 8 disciplines of local and regional economic development
- Practical workbooks (e.g. FDI from scratch; develop a great project idea)
- Community, chatrooms, discussion
- Mentoring support
- Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
- Training and skills for economic development practitioners
- For less than the price of a conference, you get a year’s membership
Develop Your Skills in Local and Regional Economic Development With Online Tutorials, Briefings and Workbooks
15 hours of courses; 17 workbooks
Initial Focus on Professional Training for Executives With 0-5 Years of Experience
Resources for more experienced executives will be launched May 2026
Founder Membership Available Offering Mentoring and Coaching
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CPD for local and regional economic develoment
A real live community with interaction, live events, expert Q&A and live cohorts of courses.
Flexible lean learning: learning and skills when you need them
You can access any course at any time, when you need it. Need to learn about FDI for your meeting next week? we’ve got it covered.
A free foundation course in Economic Development
A free 2-hour foundation course for those new to local and regional economic development.
Regular articles, tips, guides and industry news
Short form news and tips, and long-form expert reviews and guides.
A paid membership that includes all courses, resources and access to live content and webinars
Membership gets you access to 15+ hours of courses, that are being refined and expanded all the time – in response to your needs.
Mentoring and coaching
Structured mentoring programmes with specialist expert advisors and mentors.
The Team
Glenn Athey
Glenn (BA, MA, PhD) has 31 years of experience in local, city and regional economic development and regeneration.
This includes executive leadership, project development and leadership, area visioning programmes, leading partnerships, and economic analysis and insight.
Glenn has held senior roles at Futureskills Scotland, London Development Agency, Centre for Cities, The East of England Development Agency, and Greater Cambridge Greater Peterborough LEP.
Glenn also heads up a consultancy practice at Mylocaleconomy; and contributes to the Local Skills Improvement Partnership.
7 Lessons for Enterprise and FDI Support from a Programme Review
A couple of years ago I helped a region review its approach to enterprise and business growth and inward investment promotion. One of my key observations was that – this region is renowned for being a tech and business success, but in reality this success was in a...
𝙒𝙝𝙮 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙡𝙖𝙞𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 “𝙒𝙚 𝘿𝙊𝙉’𝙏 𝙉𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙇𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩” 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙗𝙡𝙮 𝙢𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙙𝙤…!
How come? well, by saying that - the person probably is doing so from the point of defensive ignorance. How do they know they don't need Local Economic Development? And how do they know that things will never change? Hint: they do. Local Economic Development (LED) is...
𝘽𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙋𝙧𝙚𝙥𝙖𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 7 𝙃𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙩𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙃𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙡𝙮 𝙀𝙛𝙛𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨
To be able to pivot your portfolio of economic development activities and funding streams once a market or economic crisis unfolds - you need to be forewarned of the changes taking place, or at least keep pace with them once they are underway. To keep ahead of...
3 𝙏𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨 𝙏𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙎𝙢𝙖𝙧𝙩 𝙀𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙞𝙘 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙥𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝘿𝙤 𝙒𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙏𝙝𝙚𝙞𝙧 𝙍𝙚𝙨𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙘𝙝 𝙍𝙚𝙥𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙀𝙫𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙠
Folks, that 100-page report full of stats, charts (and hopefully analysis telling us what it means) about your local economy was not meant to sit on your shelf gathering dust! I've lost count of the number of cracking economic reviews I've done for clients to support...
𝙒𝙝𝙮 “𝙒𝙚 D𝙤𝙣’𝙩 B𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙣 P𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 W𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙨” 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 F𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙚 A𝙧𝙜𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩
𝙒𝙝𝙮 "𝙒𝙚 D𝙤𝙣'𝙩 B𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙥𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙬𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙧𝙨" 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 F𝙖𝙡𝙨𝙚 A𝙧𝙜𝙪𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝗗𝗼𝗼𝗺𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 C𝗵𝗼𝗼𝘀𝗲: W𝗵𝘆 G𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 H𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗮𝗻 I𝗻𝗱𝘂𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗮𝗹 P𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗰𝘆 W𝗵𝗲𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘁 𝗶𝘀 E𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗿 N𝗼𝘁 Dani Rodrik (Harvard University) argues that governments are "doomed to choose" and inevitably engage in industrial...
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝘽𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝘾𝙖𝙨𝙚…
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙗𝙞𝙜𝙜𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙡𝙚 𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙘𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙨 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙖𝙨𝙠 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙂𝙧𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝘽𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝘽𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙨 𝘾𝙖𝙨𝙚...𝗜𝘀 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝘄𝗲𝗮𝗸 𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗮. Clients often approach people like me at the 'concept stage' of the business case process with project pitches like, “We need to do something...