In November, Dennis Fraise and Jason Hutcheson, co-hosts of the popular economic development podcast Develop This! visited the Iowa Lakes Corridor to keynote the Corridor’s annual Business Recognition Luncheon. While in the region, Fraise and Hutcheson sat down with community leaders to talk about some of the great initiatives and programs happening in the Iowa Lakes Corridor region.

Fraise interviewed 2017 OEI alumni Jacob Jensen, currently a Financial Planning & Investment Operations Specialist with Northwestern Mutual and Alyssa Petersen, Corridor Coordinator of Administration & Communication and OEI 2017 alum. The three of them discussed the history of the OEI program, what it takes to put a program like OEI together, and how it impacts the students who go through the program.

The Develop This! podcast is published at least twice per week and explores topics related to transformational community leadership including economic development, non-profit engagement, organizational management, and policy development.  It is a candid conversation with veterans of the economic development profession along with inspiring interviews of today’s thought leaders.