Eric McSweeney

Background

About Eric McSweeney

Eric’s team, McSweeney & Associates, is Canada’s Leading Economic Development Training, Education and Consulting firm. An experienced facilitator, community and capacity builder with a gift for bringing divergent interest groups together, Eric’s work has resulted in superior and lasting outcomes for municipalities across Canada, and in Eastern Europe. The McSweeney team, formed in 2001, is fueled by a passion to build the capacity of each client to accelerate their community’s economic growth and quality of life. The firm inspires their clients to create communities that are economically sustainable and sensitive to cultural, environmental and social needs. Its work therefore, is providing advice, guidance, and tools for communities to achieve sustainability and to de-mystify what it takes to be successful in economic development. Eric has a broad and intricate understanding of municipal economic development, strategic investment targeting, and investment readiness which has led to the preparation of hundreds of economic strategies and projects for communities across Canada, with previous involvement in Central and Eastern Europe and in the U.S.