1. Annual
Summit
October 21 – 24, 2012
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2. Bill Michalerya
President,
University Economic Development Association
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3. Christi Bell
Board Member & Past President,
University Economic Development Association
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4. Lawrence A. Molnar
Director
EDA University Center for Economic
Diversification, University of Michigan
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5. Janet M. Miller
Chief Economic Diversity Officer
Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce
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6. NATIONAL PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHANGE
Janet M. Miller, CEcD, FM
,
Board Member
International Economic Development Council
(IEDC)
UEDA 2012 Summit
October 23, 2012

7. PRESENTATION OUTLINE
 About IEDC
 IEDC’s University Relationships
 Interesting Research
IEDC-UEDA Partnership

8. ABOUT IEDC
N AT I O N A L PA R T N E R S H I P S F O R C H A N G E

9. ABOUT IEDC
• Established in 2001 through the merger of the
American Economic Development Council and the
Council for Urban Economic Development
• Over 4,200 members nationally and internationally
• The largest membership association serving
economic and community development
professionals worldwide

10. IEDC‟S VISION
To make economic development a priority in all
communities and at every level of government by:
• Professionalizing the economic development
field,
• Providing world class services to our members,
• Increasing our policy and advocacy efforts; and
• Becoming the number one source of ECD
expertise worldwide.

11. IEDC MEMBERSHIP
IEDC’s membership consists of individuals and
organizations with expertise and collective influence,
including:
• State, regional, county and city economic development
professionals
• Chambers of Commerce and other business support
agencies
• Technology development agencies

12. IEDC MEMBERSHIP (CONT‟D)
 Utility Companies
 Educational Institutions & Non-profits
 Consultants
 Redevelopment authorities

13. UNIVERSITY
RELATIONSHIPS
N AT I O N A L PA R T N E R S H I P S F O R C H A N G E

14. UNIVERSITY RELATIONSHIPS
IEDC’s Higher Education Advisory Committee
• Created in 2008 as a task force
• Permanent Advisory Committee in 2010
• Committee Charge:
 Broader engagement between
economic developers and the higher
education sector

15. UNIVERSITY RELATIONSHIPS
Higher Education Advisory Committee
 Increased efforts to increase student presence at
IEDC Conferences
 Houston Conference had seven students in
attendance

16. UNIVERSITY RELATIONSHIPS
Basic Economic Development Courses (BEDCs)
 24 courses accredited by IEDC – nine tied with
Universities
 University of Alaska
 University of South Florida
 University of Northern Iowa
 University of Arkansas
 University of Southern Mississippi
 University of North Carolina
 University of Tennessee
 University of Minnesota
 University of Oklahoma

17. UNIVERSITY RELATIONSHIPS
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE (EDI)
• Managed through University of Oklahoma
• Signed MOU Business Partnership with IEDC
• Courses currently offered in Oklahoma City,
Indianapolis and other locations (for further details
go to www.edi.ou.edu )

18. COMMUNITY COLLEGE MEMBERS
14 Community College Members
 Forum presented at the Houston Conference
 Goal: strengthen the connection between Community
Colleges & ECD Professionals
 Championed by Ray Laughter of the Lone Star State
College System

19. INTERESTING RESEARCH
N AT I O N A L PA R T N E R S H I P S F O R C H A N G E

20. INTERESTING RESEARCH
Economic Development
Research Partners (EDRP)

21. THE EDRP BUSINESS MODEL
 Strategic Research Projects
 Long-term, in-depth, comprehensive research
 Speed to Market Products
 Short-term, short briefing papers to meet an immediate need or respond to a
newly-emerging issue
 Peer Learning and Engagement Opportunities
 VIP events (with guest speakers)
 Facilitated retreat

22. EDRP LONG-TERM RESEARCH PROJECTS
• Jobs in the Making: Economic Development
Strategies to Grow Manufacturing (2011)
• Roadmap to Globalization (2008 – 2009)
• Sustainability and the green economy

23. SHORT-TERM/SPEED TO MARKET
• New Realities for Economic Development Organization (
• Knowledge is Power: Working Effectively with Site Selectors
• High-Performing Economic Development Organizations
• Post-Election Analysis
• Role of the Economic Developer in Cross-Border Mergers
and Acquisitions
• Stimulus Success Stories

24. CURRENT EDRP RESEARCH TOPICS
Adapting and Thriving: New Realities for Economic
Development Organizations
 New Realities for EDOs (launched May 2012)
 Financing EDOs
 Measuring Success (Economic Development Metrics)
 Looking around the corner
High-Growth Entrepreneurship Strategies

25. REPORTS ON DISASTER RELIEF
• Terrabonne Economic Recovery Needs Assessment (2012)
• Galveston Economic Recovery Assessment (2009)
• Cedar Rapids, IA Economic Recovery Assessment (2008)
• New Orleans Public/Private Economic Development
Partnership: Organizational and Operational Plan (2008)
• California Wildfires Economic Recovery Assessment (2007)

26. 2013 RESEARCH AGENDA
 Alignment between workforce and economic
development strategies
 Immigration and its impact on economic
development (white paper)
 Non-traditional economic development
incentives (best practices focused)

27. IEDC – UEDA
PARTNERSHIP
N AT I O N A L PA R T N E R S H I P S F O R C H A N G E

28. IEDC-UEDA PARTNERSHIP
 Initial MOU in 2010 for one year
 Joint meeting- Mar. 22, 2011
 Co-presenting workshops/sessions
 Recognition of the UEDA Annual Summit for
CEcD credits
 Current MOU signed in 2012 for two years
 Reciprocal trade of advertising space
 Cross marketing opportunities

29. IEDC-UEDA PARTNERSHIP (CONT‟D)
 Current MOU – relationship
continues to grow
UEDA board member on IEDC’s
Higher Education Advisory
Committee
Discounted rate for conference
registration
Development of handbook/guide
profiling best practices

30. IEDC-UEDA COLLABORATIONS
 2010 IEDC/UEDA Workshop
 “Regions at the Crossroads: Transforming
Higher Education and Economic Development”
 6-hour workshop held at the 2010 IEDC
Annual Conference (Columbia, OH)

31. IEDC-UEDA COLLABORATIONS
 2010 IEDC/UEDA Facilitated Forum
 “Makingthe Connection to Economic
Development Organizations”
 IEDC led conversation with audience of
higher education representatives (2010 UEDA
Annual Summit)

32. THANK YOU!
W W W. I E D C O N L I N E . O R G
J O I N I E D C O N FA C E B O O K A N D L I N K E D I N
J O I N I E D C O N FA C E B O O K A N D L I N K E D I N !

33. Annual
Summit
October 21 – 24, 2012
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34. Susan Sciame-
Giesecke
Interim Chancellor
Indiana University Kokomo
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35. The New Economic Reality:
Creating a Regional Mindset
Presented by:
Susan Sciame-Giesecke, Ph.D.
Interim Chancellor
Indiana University Kokomo
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

36. The Role of Regions
• According to the Council on
Competitiveness (2005), “The role of
regions as the critical nexus for
innovation-based economic growth has
increased. The locus of innovative
activities is at the regional level where
workers, companies, universities, and
government interface most directly.” (p 9)
10/31/2012

37. Promoting a Regional Mindset
• With all the support for regionalism, the
question remains, however; how to
promote a regional mindset in more
geographic areas. Many communities
have found creating a regional culture
takes a new kind of leadership, and few
know how to engage in this kind of
regional civic leadership.
10/31/2012

38. Regional Mindset
• Political boundaries, institutional turf,
school athletic rivalries, and other local
issues can get in the way of pursuing
collaborations. They know the value of a
regional mindset; yet understand how
difficult it is to get others to see the need
to think and act regionally.
10/31/2012

39. Regional Mindset
• Human nature pulls their constituencies
to protect their cities‟ boundaries and,
thus, they end up competing with the
other communities around them, rather
than networking and collaborating to
maximize access to greater resources
and scale which come from partnerships.
10/31/2012

40. Regional Leadership Initiative
• Several communities in north central
Indiana were facing such a challenge and
turned to the faculty and staff of a
regional campus of a university system to
help develop a new broad group of
leaders who could act as stewards or
“trustees” of the region‟s future.
10/31/2012

41. Regional Leadership Initiative
• They needed a group of leaders who
could help their local communities
understand the importance of a regional
mindset and work toward regional
clusters for economic growth.
10/31/2012

42. Regional Leadership Initiative
• Through the support of a WIRED grant, a
Regional Leadership Initiative was
created to support leadership
development. As a result of this two year
initiative, a model emerged providing
insight into the process of developing a
regional mindset.
10/31/2012

43. Regional Mindset Model
Shaping
Discourse
Learner
Visualizing Regional
Centered
Regionalism Mindset
Foundation
Developing
Skill Sets

44. Learner Centered
• Learner-centered is a learning model
which places the student in the center of
the learning process. In a learner-
centered environment, people are active
participants in their learning; they learn at
their own pace and use their own
strategies; they are more intrinsically than
extrinsically motivated; learning is more
individualized than standardized.
10/31/2012

45. Learner Centered
• Learner-centered processes focus on
problem solving, critical thinking, and
reflective thinking.
10/31/2012

46. Learner Centered
• This approach was chosen as the
foundation for the model, for creating a
regional mindset, because we were faced
with adult learners who needed to
reframe a concept; relearn it, if you will. If
we were to create change, they needed
to understand the concept of regionalism.
So first we had to engage our regional
constituencies in a learning experience.
10/31/2012

47. Shaping Discourse
• Shaping discourse is a strategy which
focuses questions and conversations in a
very directed way to bring about change.
Bringing people together around new
ideas affords an opportunity to engage
people around a chosen topic and focus
their thoughts and actions.
10/31/2012

48. Shaping Discourse
• Engaging leaders in a discussion of the
paradigm shift in leadership was a basic
strategy to help participants look at
leadership through a new knowledge lens
and be ready to learn a new concept –
regionalism – in order to cope with the
changing economic realities around
them.
10/31/2012

49. Visualizing Regionalism
• In the RLI initiative, key change occurred
when participants visited three best
practice sites. During their visits, they
spoke with volunteers and staff members
who were engaged in regional projects.
Seeing others think and act regionally
was the spark that excited the group
about regionalism.
10/31/2012

50. Visualizing Regionalism
• One participant stated, “As a non-profit
director, I learned that collaborations are
more possible than one might think.
Perhaps one is too quick to tell him or
herself „no‟, when „maybe‟ or „yes‟ is just
as likely. The varied collaborations
employed in northern Kentucky were
impressive and most likely were forged
by time, perseverance and success.”
10/31/2012

51. Visualizing Regionalism
• Another participant added, “I thoroughly
enjoyed the trip to the Piedmont Triad of
North Carolina. Those folks really had
their act together. Different little towns
were not competing with each other but
were feeding off of each other‟s
successes. They had identified their
strengths and had built on them.”
10/31/2012

52. Visualizing Regionalism
• In each of these reflections, participants
began to understand the concept of
regionalism, began to see what it looked
like when people acted regionally, and
began to plan how to create a regional
mindset back home. Being able to
visualize the concept is what made all the
difference.
10/31/2012

53. Developing Skill Sets
• One of the most fundamental skills is to
create a habit of mind of optimizing.
According to the book,
Megacommunities, “Optimizing refers to
the recognition and actualization of
benefits to the larger system as a whole.”
(Gerencser, Van Lee, Napolitano, &
Kelly, 2008)
10/31/2012

54. Optimizing
• It is a perspective which understands the
interdependence of everyone. Optimizing
is the opposite of maximizing, which
refers to a primary focus on the
immediate benefits to your own local
domain.
10/31/2012

55. Maximizing
• Maximizing is an ineffective strategy
when responding to a complex global
economy, because it does not respond to
all sectors involved, and we know no one
sector possesses all the capabilities to
meet the challenges.
10/31/2012

56. Optimizing
• Opening the mind of most Americans to
the concept of optimizing is difficult
because we have been raised on a
“winner take all” philosophy. It is a win-
lose perspective – one city wins a new
industry while another one loses – rather
than a regional win-win perspective.
Everyone in the region can prosper from
new business.
10/31/2012

57. Crossing Boundaries
• The ability to cross boundaries is another
essential skill as groups come together to
partner on regional initiatives.
Relationship building skills, networking
skills, and effective communication skills
are all necessary if regional partnerships
are to succeed.
10/31/2012

58. Crossing Boundaries
• One participant noted the skills
necessary when she stated, “Tearing
down silos, planting the seed for future
cooperation, and regional planning were
all part of the leadership program.”
10/31/2012

59. Strategic Doing
• As they begin to understand one another,
the parties can initiate opportunities for
collaboration. What can we do together?
How can we benefit one another? This
skill set has been coined “Strategic
Doing” in the literature.
10/31/2012

60. Strategic Doing
• It is a set of principles, practices, and
disciplines for implementing strategy in a
network. Strategic doing guides strategy
across organizational and political
boundaries with a discipline to build
collaborations quickly.
10/31/2012

61. Strategic Doing
Strategic doing answers four questions:
What could we do together?
What should we do together?
What will we do together?
When will we get back together?
This is an essential skill if regional projects
are to be realized.
10/31/2012

62. Regional Mindset Model
Shaping
Discourse
Learner
Visualizing Regional
Centered
Regionalism Mindset
Foundation
Developing
Skill Sets

63. Annual
Summit
October 21 – 24, 2012
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67. Annual
Summit
October 21 – 24, 2012
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