Our mission:  To provide assistance and support to local companies in their growth, market development, and workforce training and expansion efforts; to promote strategic events and innovative programs that contribute to their core competitiveness; and to assist in the development of new companies and product innovation in order to diversify the economy and to promote job creation and retention.

Message from the CEO/President of LEDA Group
It is a great honor and pleasure for me to meet and speak to you in this online space. I would like to take this opportunity to reaffirm LEDA’s commitment to its guiding principles – providing superior value to our members, and to our citizens, for the purpose of realizing a richer and more vibrant future for our communities.

The financial crisis, combined with rising inflation and the consequent slowdown in global demand, has engendered significant insecurity about the outlook of the world economy. Our long-term agenda will require us first and foremost to train and educate our workforce with the skills necessary to compete in a knowledge-based economy. We’ll also need to place a greater emphasis on areas like science and technology that will define the workforce of the 21st century, and invest in the research and innovation necessary to create the jobs and industries of the future right here at home.