About Us

Our Why

Our How

We want to inspire entrepreneurs, enterprises, and communities to think differently—to look for ways to create an integrative framework for innovation, creativity, and sustainability.

Our How

We help entrepreneurs, enterprises, and communities embrace their potential by creating a process for identifying and realizing opportunities to reinvigorate the economic value and social prosperity of their community.

Our What

Our How

Our What

We provide workshops and seminars, research & assessment tools, and 1:1 personalized support to build confidence and to take risks—to accept challenges as opportunities to develop your local economy.

Our Clients

Entrepreneurs

We work with individuals that have a business, social, cultural, or recreational vision and want to create an entrepreneurial reality.

Entrepreneurial Services

Enterprises

Entrepreneurs

We help enterprises develop, grow, and diversify through the three key areas of operations, marketing, and financial management.

Entrerprise Services

Communities

Entrepreneurs

Communities

We work with communities through teaching, assessment, and researching opportunities to create a process of economic development that supports integrated solutions.

Economic Development Services

Our Solutions

Seminars and Workshops

We offer workshops and seminars for entrepreneurs, enterprises, and communities that includes entrepreneurial skills development, business concept formulation, business planning; enterprise development, growth, and diversification; and community prosperity through an economic development capacity building model.

Research Solutions

Seminars and Workshops

We offer an integrated service that includes assessment of an idea, project, or plan. Research that provides the foundation for establishing attainable goals, measurable objectives, and supportive rationale. Our integrated economic solutions approach is designed to create a process for public participation and accountability.

1:1 Customzed Support

Seminars and Workshops

1:1 Customzed Support

We offer a complimentary 1/2-hour service to review YOUR idea. After this initial session, we follow up with YOU to recommend an appropriate approach that meets YOUR needs.

...Shifting Economic Development Thinking

...Shifting Economic Development Thinking

About Us

Our Why

Our How

Our How

Our How

Our How

Our How

Our What

Our How

Our What

Our Clients

Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs

Enterprises

Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs

Communities

Entrepreneurs

Communities

Our Solutions

Seminars and Workshops

Seminars and Workshops

Seminars and Workshops

Research Solutions

Seminars and Workshops

Seminars and Workshops

1:1 Customzed Support

Seminars and Workshops

1:1 Customzed Support

Our Client Awards

2018 & 2019 East Kootenay Platinum Award, Ashlee Dawn Photography

2018 & 2019 East Kootenay Platinum Award, Ashlee Dawn Photography

2018 & 2019 East Kootenay Platinum Award, Ashlee Dawn Photography

2019 KHCC Best New Business Award, Thread the Needle

2018 & 2019 East Kootenay Platinum Award, Ashlee Dawn Photography

2018 & 2019 East Kootenay Platinum Award, Ashlee Dawn Photography

2019 KHCC Best New Business Award, Wandering Fern Cafe

2018 & 2019 East Kootenay Platinum Award, Ashlee Dawn Photography

2018 Fernie Best New Business Award, Fernie Copperworks Inc.

2018 Fernie Best New Business Award, Fernie Copperworks Inc.

2018 KHCC Best New business Award, Columbia River Catering Company

2018 Fernie Best New Business Award, Fernie Copperworks Inc.

2018 KHCC Best New business Award, Columbia River Catering Company

2018 KHCC Best New business Award, Columbia River Catering Company

2018 KHCC Best New business Award, Columbia River Catering Company