One of the biggest challenges in implementing regional development efforts is recruiting business leaders who lend their insight, influence and financial resources to these projects. This guide lays out a series of recommendations aimed at helping regions recruit, develop and sustain the involvement of business leaders. It is the result of a partnership between the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration’s (ETA) Workforce Innovation in Regional Economic Development (WIRED) Initiative and the Council on Competitiveness.

Five for the Future lays out what the Council considers to be the critical components of America’s competitiveness agenda for success in an increasingly global economy.