I love history and the study of human nature and our rich evolution as people and within the realm of nations and localities. I love to travel and meet new and interesting people. My wife and I love to sip wine and discuss politics, world affairs and the future. I am a positive person that believes in change for positive purposes if done in a spirit of caring for the future of others.
Music
I love the eagles, Boston and old rock bands.
Movies
I am a thriller action movie kind of guy. My favorites tend to be the Highlander series, Indiana Jones, Star Wars of course and numerous others.
Television
Battle Star Galactica and 24 with a mix of two and half men. I enjoy West Wing and Ering.
Books
I love Vince Flynn, Tom Clancy, John Grisham, Patrick Robinson, and Bernard Cornwell novels.
Heroes
My Dad and Grandfather first and foremost. After that it would be Thomas Jefferson, Teddy Roosevelt, Douglas MacArther, and Al Oerter.
Don's Details
Status:
Married
Here for:
Networking
Orientation:
Straight
Hometown:
Dayton
Body type:
6' 3" / Some extra baggage
Ethnicity:
White / Caucasian
Religion:
Christian - other
Zodiac Sign:
Aries
Children:
Proud parent
Education:
Grad / professional school
Occupation:
Economic Developer
Don's Schools
Butler High School
Vandalia,OH
Graduated: N/A
Student status: Alumni
Degree: High School Diploma
I am trying to write a book related to my industry "Economic Development" and make it interesting to the general public. I am open to any self publishing tips for how to achieve this project.
Don's Companies
Verizon Tampa, Florida US Senior Staff Consultant Public Affairs
July 1998 until July 2001
SSP/IGH EDC Progress Plus South St. Paul, Minnesota US Executive Director Chamber of Commerce
July 1991 until December 1992
Crooskton EDA Crookston , Minnesota US Executive Director City Government
January 1993 until August 1996
Red Wing Port Authority Red Wing, Minnesota US Executive Director Port Authority Public Agency
August 1996 until March 1998
Partnership for Economic Development, PED Lake Havasu City, Arizona US President/CEO Non-profit Economic Development Agency
September 2001 until July 2004
Wayne County Economic Development Corp. Richmond, Indiana US President/CEO Non-profit Economic Development Agency
October 2004 until February 2006
Don in your extended network Posted at 2:35 AM Aug 7, 2007 view more
About me: '''Don Holbrook, Certified Economic Developer'''
Don Holbrook has been engaged in economic development since 1991. His passion is to create an environment in local communities that fosters sustainable economic growth and access to economic opportunities for citizens. His primary focus has been to create catlyst models to engage local strengths and eliminate and/or diminish local problems or barriers to such growth. Holbrook has been a maverick and over the horizon public policy thinker. His reality based reviews of communities can sometimes draw criticism from locals because they do not understand that change and progress are not always comfortable. Holbrook has been called by his peers a change agent. He is progressive and not afraid to identify the root issues that inhibit communities from reaching their potential. Holbrook feels that if our world, our nation and communities are going to reach their true potential we have to embrace new ideas and concepts that are constantly evolving. This constant inertia creates rapid changes in the fortunes of communities. His over the horizon ability to see changes in the economics of communities has been keen. What Holbrook has found however is that many communities profess they desire progress and change but unequivocably fight the transition when confronted with decisions to meet those challenges. His style has been controversial to some and coveted by his peers and others for his effectiveness at hitting the mark. Holbrook created a process he calls the Seven Step Process for Community Economic Development. This takes a community from start to finish in designing a reality based blueprint to increase their local economic growth and create a sustainable economy. His approach identifies areas that need change and focuses on how to pay for and implement those changes within the resources available to communities. Holbrook says communities must take calculated risks to create new economic horizons, but they must really calculate the risk and then measure that against the possibility of return of investment. His pioneering methods have created new incentive models, community profiling resources and internet enabled strategies as contributions to the economic development industry.
Holbrook has a patent pending Dynamic Distributed Internet enabled database model for site location and community profile ranking at the U.S. Patent office and has licensed this model for use by the International Economic Development Council, IEDC. His hopes are that economic developers learn how to embrace technology as a cutting edge tool to add to their capabilities. He has been instrumentally involved in the establishment of the IEDC site location data standards. Holbrook launched the first economic development web site in the world in 1991 and has been an economic development pioneer and social scientist ever since then. He loves to work with communities to find their best qualities and build upon their strengths to compete for new business and economic growth. While he has been chastized by some community leaders for his change oriented methods, he has remained a positive force in this drive to better community economic development. His positive attitude allows for the public frenzy as what he called "Justifiable fear of change." People fear change because they do not feel comfortable with the unknown. What I fear is outside forces changing their lives in a very negative manner because they did not seek to answer "What If?" and "How could we improve our local economies?"
Holbrook has lectured to thousands of economic developers. He has written numerous articles in trade journals and the economic development journals. He has been interviewed on Fox Television, by the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today and other local newspapers. He has written regular articles for Business Facilities and Expansion Management magazines. He currently is working on two books related to economic development and is seeking his doctorate in community economic development.
OK... this is just a classic. Every guy knows this is so true we all struggle to think of such ingenious ways to convince our mates to do so... Owen has made a great comedic spoof of it.
Don
Who I'd like to meet: People who are interested in public policy as it related to the socio/economic issues facing communities today. I am writing a book and would love to hear others perspectives on how they feel their community could be a better place to live? How their community faces progress? How competitive and progressive is their community? What changes might their community need to embrace and how would they pay for such changes?
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