West Michigan Strategic Alliance has become one of the leading regions in the country when it comes to building regional alliances. I’ll be heading up there shortly to start distilling some lessons from what they have learned. The Council on Competitiveness will also be integrating some of the lessons from West Michigan in their work on regional leadership.

Here’s one of their initiatives:

3rd Annual Natural Connections Summit 2008
Locally Green, Regionally Connected

Learn more.

Could NEO do something similar?