MEDC CHAMBER WORKSHOP AGENDA
9 – 9:30 AM: Registration
9:30 AM: Welcome from Debbie Hudson
9:30 – 11:30 AM: Leadership Development – Intentional Organizational & Personal Goal Setting
Speaker: Beth Stevens, IOM, Executive Director, Greenwood-Leflore County Chamber of Commerce
Description: Beth is a John Maxwell speaker/trainer/coach. She will use this knowledge and fun games to lead attendees to find personal leadership goals as well as organizational goals/challenges/ideas.
11:30 AM – 12:15 PM: Networking Luncheon
12:15 – 1 PM: Chamber Affinity Programs
Speakers: Chrissy Yelverton, Vice President, BXS Insurance and Marc Maddox, BXS Insurance
Simon P. Sherman, Business Development Manager – Mississippi, Business Solutions Division, Office Depot, Inc.
Description: A discussion on affinity programs that chambers are offering for their members and what are the success or failures of these programs.
1 – 2 PM: Engaging Millennials – Our Future Workforce in Your Community
Speakers: Dr. Ruth Nichols, Special Assistant to the President for Community & Economic Development, Alcorn State University
Debbie Hudson, IOM, President/CEO, Natchez-Adams County Chamber of Commerce
Description: Dr. Nichols and Debbie Hudson will discuss how to engage millennials in your community through a variety of ways including chamber young professional programs that have proved to be successful in Adams County.
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