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All of our solutions begin with understanding.

We are driven by one thing: inspiring positive community change.

To do this, we work hard to listen well. No one knows your community's needs better than the people living in, working in, and experiencing it. Listening well allows us to provide advice, guidance, and tools unique to our clients so they can achieve community and economic sustainability.

Our clients are our partners.

Our methods are hands-on and easy to understand.

It's not just what we do, it's how we do it.

McSweeney and Associates are experienced analysts of local and regional economies using the most up-to-date and industry-leading data collection and analysis techniques. Successful research is not only based on analyzing data that reflects what has already happened - it is also about finding innovative ways of looking to the future, to identifying emerging trends that represent opportunities for the communities we work with. We work with clients to develop custom data-based solutions that fit their needs.

We have prepared data-based solutions to provide greater understanding on:

Community Profiles and Quick Facts
Labour Force Analysis
Employment Land Analysis and Development

Demographic Profiles
Economic Base Analysis/Situational Analysis
Sector Impact Analysis
Business Gap Analysis
Target Market Analysis
Retail Gap Analysis

We are educators. We take complex concepts of economic development and break them down through a custom approach that is visually simple and easy to understand. Our desire is to share this knowledge through education to develop capacity within Canada’s economic development community.

We have been instructors since 2014 for the Economic Development Association of Canada/University of Waterloo’s Certificate in Economic Development.

As investment readiness experts, providing unmatched insight into understanding investors’ information needs, over 40 communities have benefitted from our Investment Readiness Assessment (IRA).

We have prepared solutions to provide greater understanding on:

Coaching, Training, and Education.
Community Investment Readiness.
Economic Development Strategic Planning.
Rural Economic Development.

For close to 25 years, we have undertaken thousands of projects that positively impact millions of Canadians. Through our thoughtful and rigorous quantitative and qualitative analyses, we prepare strategies and develop realistic and doable action plans that are unique to each of our clients.

We have worked with clients to provide greater understanding on:

Economic Development
Community Development
Corporate Strategies
Organizational Review and Restructuring
Foreign Direct Investment
Tourism Development
Unique custom strategies
Others (Municipal Airports, Farmers’ Markets, BIAs, Downtowns/Main Streets, Museums, Culture)