Economic development that moves from insight to action.
Lighthearts Collaborative designs and launches practical economic development programs, training, data tools, and digital products for municipalities, regional organizations, business-support networks, and the small businesses they serve.
Each engagement starts with a real need, brings together the right collaborators, and moves toward something people can use.
From idea to implementation.
Lighthearts validates the need, shapes the response, convenes the people it requires, and remains involved through practical delivery.
Programs and partnerships
Initiatives, pilots, and business-support programs shaped around a clear need.
Training and workshops
Practical learning experiences that help organizations and small businesses prepare to act.
Data and digital tools
Dashboards, decision tools, and applications built around how people actually work.
Current work with WESTMARC, the Western Maricopa Coalition
One regional relationship has produced four distinct forms of work spanning training, workshops, readiness planning, and regional data infrastructure.
Training and workshops
Tech Forward Readiness Training
Applied cohort-based training designed to help small businesses assess technology readiness, identify useful priorities, and plan manageable next steps.
Lighthearts contributes program design, readiness framing, and implementation support.
AI Readiness Workshops for Small Business
Practical workshops that help small businesses identify where AI may fit, what they need to prepare, and how to take responsible first steps.
Lighthearts leads workshop design, facilitation planning, and responsible-adoption framing.
Digital platforms
Tech Forward Readiness Dashboard
A public assessment and planning tool that helps employers explore technology readiness and turn priorities into practical next steps.
Lighthearts leads assessment architecture, interface implementation, and regional alignment.
WESTMARC Regional Data Platform
A regional data platform that helps West Valley leaders find, compare, and explain economic, workforce, housing, education, and demographic data in one place.
Lighthearts leads product direction, data alignment, interface implementation, launch, and continuing stewardship.
Public evidence
The Tech Forward platform is live.
Employers can explore regional readiness analysis, use a four-question reflection tool, browse technology examples, and move into training pathways.
Visit the live platform(opens in a new tab)Built collaboratively.
Lighthearts is founder-led and assembles trusted specialists around the requirements of each engagement. The work determines the team. Responsibility stays clear. Implementation remains part of the engagement.
A growing application catalog
Alongside institutional work, Lighthearts develops focused applications around recurring problems in professional, family, and community life. The catalog includes private pilots, products in development, and public releases.
Private pilot
CEcD/EDP Certification Planner
An independent study and certification-planning platform that turns CEcD and EDP preparation into a structured, trackable learning workflow.
Private alpha
Bookish
A personal library application for accurate editions, series relationships, flexible imports, private reading history, and useful long-term patterns.
Public community product
GC Scribe
A conference companion for capturing impressions, taking structured notes, maintaining focus, and returning to personal commitments after General Conference.
Limited public release
Dadurday
A playful family decision tool that turns open-ended activity choices into a customizable, repeatable game.
What are you trying to make work better?
You do not need to arrive with a finished scope. Start with the problem, the people it affects, and what you wish were easier.