Michigan CEO Summit Agenda: Lineup of top job providers to fuel discussion on efforts to grow the New Michigan economy

Today Business Leaders for Michigan (BLM) announced the full agenda for the first-ever Michigan CEO Summit which will bring more than a dozen of Michigan’s top executives together to share strategies for building the state’s economic future. The daylong event will be held on March 15, 2012 at the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel in Detroit and will focus on strategies for achieving success at the local, state and national levels, and explore new ways to innovate, invest, and accelerate Michigan’s economic growth.

“This event provides a unique opportunity for business, civic and community leaders to hear directly from Michigan’s largest job providers about what they think are the major trends that will most impact our state’s economy,” said Doug Rothwell, President and CEO, Business Leaders for Michigan.  “We will also focus on Michigan’s greatest challenges and opportunities and what business and others can do to grow the New Michigan economy.”

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2012 Michigan Turnaround Plan and the New Michigan

Business Leaders for Michigan (BLM), the state’s business roundtable, announced today its 2012 Michigan Turnaround Plan (MTP), which includes a number of new recommendations for continuing Michigan’s turnaround and revitalizing Michigan’s economy and a new sixth step that lays out a 10+ year vision for a New Michigan.

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4Q ECONOMIC OUTLOOK SURVEY: More optimistic about long-term outlook for both U.S. and Michigan

DETROIT, Mich., January 17, 2012 – A survey of Business Leaders for Michigan (BLM), the state’s business roundtable, shows that the state’s largest employers are increasingly optimistic about Michigan’s short and long-term economic outlook.  “Michigan’s largest job providers are getting downright bullish on the state’s economic prospects and backing it up with increased hiring and investment,” said Doug Rothwell, President & CEO.  “Business leader optimism about the state’s long-term economy is at a three year high and nearly a third of the largest job providers are planning increased hiring and investment in the next six months.”

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Regional Partners Advance Strategic Economic Outcomes in Greater Detroit

Report on Road to Renaissance Showcases Areas of Success and Leadership

DETROIT, Mich., December 12, 2011 — Business Leaders for Michigan, the state’s business roundtable, issued the last in a series of progress reports on the Road to Renaissance, a pioneering, comprehensive movement geared at engineering economic growth and development in the Detroit region.  

First launched in 2006, the Road to Renaissance initiative used input from hundreds of civic and business leaders to devise a strategy for accelerating regional economic growth.

“This effort has had stunning levels of involvement, complexity and reach,” said Doug Rothwell President & CEO of Business Leaders for Michigan. “More than $100 million was raised to support the activities of Road to Renaissance, and countless hours, people and significant amounts of energy were dedicated to growing our economy in Greater Detroit.”

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Michigan makes huge strides in 2011

Column by Doug Rothwell, President and CEO of Business Leaders for Michigan and Phil Power, the Founder and President of The Center for Michigan 

Michigan has much to be thankful for as this year comes to a close: Better managed state and local government, a brighter economic outlook and more efficient delivery of public services. Our state’s turnaround has begun, but in many ways the hardest work still lies ahead.

A year ago, our two organizations held a summit, “Common Sense Reforms for a New Michigan” in Lansing. We drew nearly 400 people, including newly elected Gov. Rick Snyder and many legislative leaders for a discussion of structural changes we felt were needed to turn around Michigan and put us firmly on the path to prosperity.

The summit resulted in recommendations to improve state and local government efficiency, business climate and quality of life in our state.  We also pledged to report on progress one year later — hence this column. There is much progress to report.

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