More than 100 business leaders from throughout our 10-parish region, including our CEO Lacey Osborne, gathered at Greater New Orleans, Inc. to hear Northshore’s own Susan Bonnet Bourgeois talk about her first 60 days in office as Gov. Landry’s new Louisiana Secretary of Economic Development. She discussed the leadership transition, implementation of changes (including department restructuring), collaboration with other state and local economic development organizations, business retention and recruitment, generating leads and incentives for new businesses to locate in Louisiana, and internal and external communications.