Economic Stewardship

Strategic Thinking for Places People Live, Work and Visit  

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what we do
Economic Stewardship, Inc. (ESI) helps public, private and non-profit organizations:
  • identify fruitful market opportunities;
  • pursue feasible, strategic ventures, and;
  • increase their appeal as places to live, work, and visit.
balancing
pragmatism and creativity

As instigators of change, our clients require creative thinking backstopped by credible analysis that can withstand rigorous scrutiny.
ESI excels at disentangling knotty economic and strategic issues: isolating how market forces, consumer behavior, development economics, operating characteristics, and organizational capacity interact. These dynamics determine the quality of a place or an experience as well as its financial performance. Ideally, both exceed expectations.

A key benefit of ESI's approach? Enhancing the decision-making process so that lay audiences---citizens, board members and elected officials, industry representatives, and other stakeholders---can make meaningful contributions and understand the trade-offs involved.

ESI helps clients balance vision and pragmatism… and then explain the rationales underpinning the ensuing recommendations. ESI's project portfolio reflects national experience in urban and rural regions and engagements with a wide array of clients.