We help communities create jobs and investment.

Avalanche is the nation’s go-to strategist for workforce and economic development organizations.

Economic
Development

Supercharge your region’s economy

Economic development consulting is Avalanche Consulting’s primary concentration. We create targeted business recruitment, expansion, and entrepreneurship strategies that are founded in the best research and industry insight available.

>> Read More

Workforce
Development

Aligning workforce development with economic development

Access to talent is a top requirement in site selection, yet many communities struggle to anticipate the needs of industry. State and national data only scratches the surface of the true dynamics of a labor market. Avalanche offers detailed educational inventories, gap analyses and occupational forecasts that inform curricula decisions and synchronize talent development with employer demands.

>> Read More

Research
Tools

We’re on the cutting edge of economic and workforce research.

Avalanche has developed proprietary research tools that are unavailable from any other consulting firm,
including survey methodologies and our own in-house data systems.

>> Read More

NEWS

10/10/12:  Avalanche Consulting releases its first Economic Brief of 2012 on discouraged workers and the nation’s true unemployment rate.

>> Read the Summary

>> Download the Full Report