It takes hard work, dedication and sometimes good old fashion luck to build a strong, profitable business. One of the best pieces of advice for entrepreneurs and emerging business owners is to get smart insights from people who have been there before.
See what Nancy Denning-Martin of Bridges for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (BridgesWEST) has to say on how he keeps his business growing.
On Tuesday, June 23, join the Greater Memphis Chamber Chairman Willie Gregory for the Chamber’s first virtual Mid-Year Chairman’s Forum. Chairman Gregory will give a brief update on the activity the Chamber has engaged in during the first half of the year. Following Chamber updates, we will have Benjamin Pring, co-founder of Cognizant’s Center for the Future of Work, as the keynote speaker.
Ben will discuss “After the Virus.” His discussion will center around what is going to be changed? What technologies we will use? How we will go back to physical facilities to work? What about travel, security, health and safety? Ben feels it is “unrealistic to think that we will go back to normal and we as leaders need to adjust.” Ben has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the London Times, Forbes, Fortune, the MIT Review, the Daily Telegraph, Quartz, Inc., Axios, the Australian, and the Economic Times.
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Reported by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), while the April 2020 unemployment rate for the Memphis MSA rose higher than its previous January 2010 peak, the Memphis metro has seen less dramatic impact to unemployment compared to other metropolitan areas across Tennessee. Unemployment in Memphis for April, the latest reported figure from the BLSs for metropolitan areas, was two percent lower than the April figures for the nation and the state of Tennessee, and nearly three points lower than the Nashville metro area.
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On June 12, the Chamber held its first Mid-Year Chairman’s Forum, giving the full membership an opportunity to learn about the work underway at the Chamber.
Gary Rosenfeld is the Chief Executive Officer of the Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA). Rosenfeld’s main focus is to rebuild the transit system into a world class mass transit provider while implementing new transit innovations.
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July 2, 2020 – To build an understanding of current labor market trends and conditions that are impacting the Memphis Metro area, the Chamber will release an update to our economic recovery in two-week intervals. With the release of the May 2020 unemployment numbers on July 1, these updates will provide a key snapshot of where the Memphis market sits as it relates to a recovery in the local economy.
[Read more…] about Monitoring Recovery | Indicators to Watch and Metrics that Matter
It takes hard work, dedication and sometimes good old fashion luck to build a strong, profitable business. One of the best pieces of advice for entrepreneurs and emerging business owners is to get smart insights from people who have been there before.
See what Kellan Bartosch of WISEACRE Brewing Company has to say on how he keeps his business growing.
The Greater Memphis Chamber is excited to introduce our new Chamber members who joined from March to July. We continually strive to connect you to one another and to the community at large. Please welcome them by visiting their website, sending them an email or stopping by to introduce yourself. The personal touch will help our chamber continue to grow and thrive.
Harry Pratt, III is President and Chief Executive Officer of Allen & Hoshall, a full-service architectural-engineering firm with over 105 years of experience in the Mid-South.
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The Greater Memphis Chamber is pleased to announce that nominees are currently being sought for the Young Memphis Class of 2020. Young Memphis recognition initiative is designed to cultivate and showcase exceptional young professionals in the Greater Memphis area.
It takes hard work, dedication and sometimes good old fashion luck to build a strong, profitable business. One of the best pieces of advice for entrepreneurs and emerging business owners is to get smart insights from people who have been there before.
See what Adriane Johnson-Williams of Standpoint Consulting has to say on how she keeps her business growing.
[Read more…] about Member Advice with Adriane Johnson-Williams
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Bank of America recognized the extraordinary potential of two college freshmen, Hannah Blackwell and Akaash Seemakurty, by selecting them as 2020 Student Leaders (#BofAStudentLeaders). These two recent Shelby County Schools graduates completed the bank’s summer program, an experience full of leadership opportunities, civic engagement, and workforce skills-building. Both students expressed how well the Student Leaders program prepared them for starting as freshmen at two different universities this fall.
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