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Hickey Global Canada is a full-service economic development consulting firm supporting private, public, and non-profit economic development organizations around the world. We create custom solutions to help communities prosper by identifying opportunities for investment and job growth.

Research and Analytics

Cluster Studies
Economic Development
Research and Analysis
Competitive Assessments
Community Profiles

Strategy & Business Development

Economic Development
Strategic Planning
Business Development Strategies
FDI & Export Strategy
Rural Economic Development
Industrial Park Development & Positioning
Marketing Assessment

Insights and Incentives

Site Selector Engagement
Incentive Benchmarking
Incentive Program Design
Mock Site Selection
Diversity & Inclusion Strategies
Trend Insights
Speaking Engagements

Organizational Development

Community Investment Readiness
Ecosystem Building
EDO Benchmarking
Stakeholder Engagement
EDO Structure & Metrics
Retreat Facilitation

Workforce Development

Labour Force Analysis
Skills Gap Analysis
Talent Retention & Attraction
Program Gap Analysis
Workforce Strategy

Each of Hickey Global’s service offerings is customized to meet the needs of your community and designed with the expertise of our team of economic development practitioners. Still, we’ve found a way to further differentiate ourselves by creating several distinct enhancements to our advisory work:

Distinctive Enhancements

Each of Hickey Global’s service offerings is customized to meet the needs of your community and designed with the expertise of our team of economic development practitioners. Still, we’ve found a way to further differentiate ourselves by creating several distinct enhancements to our advisory work.

Speaking Engagements

Our public speaking services empower organizations and communities by delivering engaging, informative presentations tailored to economic development needs. With a focus on actionable insights and inspiring strategies, we equip stakeholders with the knowledge and tools to drive growth and innovation.

Training Services by Hickey Global

The Hickey approach to economic development learning programs is flexible and crafted for the needs of our clients. The engaging workshop modules laid out below are developed as a recommended course set. However, the courses may be selected on more of an a la carte basis. We also can develop custom modules and welcome interesting and creative assignments not listed.

Creating Opportunity: Successfully Working with Site Selectors

Workshop Module I

Global trends in the site selection process
Real-time impacts of recent events on location strategy
Review key drivers of site location decisions
Shift in decision criteria following the pandemic
Understand the approach to the location process
Identify best practices for responding to RFIs and hosting site visits
Understanding the consultant's role working with companies
Global site selector panel discussion and Q&A

Understanding Your Labour Force: How to Play To Your Strengths

Workshop Module II

Best practices in labour analytics
Post-pandemic changes to the labour market
Major talent indicators and trends
Overview of labour data sources
Site selector perspectives on talent
The importance of talent in down selecting communities
Telling your workforce story
How to use visualizations to your advantage
RFI Case Studies: learn how to increase the effectiveness of your responses
Panel Discussion and Q&A with subject matter experts

Understanding Incentives to Attract Business & Deliver Taxpayer ROI

Workshop Module III

Best practices in the use of economic developer incentives
How companies value incentives
What site selectors are looking for in an incentive program
Understand how incentives impact the bottom line for decision makers
Identify developments in incentive programs due to recent events
Understanding the site selector's role in working with incentives
The future of incentives
Incentive panel discussion

Successfully Working with Site Selectors & Understanding Incentives (Hybrid)

Workshop Module IV

Global trends in the site selection process
Real-time impacts of recent events on location strategy
Review key drivers of site location decisions
Understand the approach to the location process
Site selector panel discussion and Q&A
Best practices in the use of economic development incentives
How companies value incentives
What site selectors are looking for in an incentive program
Understand how incentives fit into the location decision process

Tel. +1 (917) 410-4626
info@hickeyglobal.ca

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