Strong Towns President, Charles Marohn will be giving a Keynote presentation titled The Local Leader’s Toolkit: A Strong Towns Response to the Pandemic at the Downtown New Jersey Conference on January 19, 2021.

Our cities and towns are supposed to be places of stability and prosperity. But the way our places have grown in recent decades has made them economically fragile (and too often culturally fragile as well). With the COVID-19 crisis, we’re experiencing what happens when that fragility is tested. Local leaders are on the front lines, facing head-on the challenges of our time. They are forced to innovate with systems naturally resistant to change. And to be successful, they must lead despite the anxiety and distrust that permeates modern discourse. The Local Leader’s Toolkit: A Strong Towns Response to the Pandemic details the next steps local leaders must take to stabilize their communities and put them on a path to recovery.

The Local Leader’s Toolkit: A Strong Towns Response to the Pandemic

New Jersey Downtown Conference

January 19, 2021

Presentation time: 11:15am EST / 10:15am CST