Helping Communities Thrive

Becker Professional Services, LLC is a local and regional planning and economic development services firm, serving communities in the upper Midwest for over 40 years. We exist to help communities become more resilient, innovative, and collaborative, so they can solve their most pressing challenges.

Services

Our Approach

We work with local government, schools, large employers, small businesses, and individual stakeholders to assess the needs-of or opportunity in the community, co-develop potential solutions, analyze the feasibility of each, and help with solution implementation and community transition. We utilize a systems-thinking yet human-centered approach, making sure the right mix of real data, individual needs and common-sense drives every decision and recommendation.

We inhabit a decade that will determine everything from the health of our planet to the stability of our societies.

“The world is about to undergo incredible changes that demand action: climate instability, pandemic disease and management, economic fragility, organizational and geopolitical uncertainty, systemic inequities, and eroded trust in our institutions. These shifts will radically reshape the global landscape in the next ten years, and the decisions we make today will shape our future for generations to come.

While these challenges appear daunting, they also open opportunities. This is the moment to reevaluate basic assumptions and redefine practices and activities of daily life, study current systems and institutions, work across sectors and borders to find solutions to the most pressing problems of our time, and devise new strategies that allow us to take bold and determined action to build a more just, sustainable, and equitable world.” 
(credit: Institute for the Future)

Our Clients