The NextGen Chamber of Commerce empowers emerging business leaders by generating insights, encouraging engagement, and nurturing leadership development to shape the future economy.

Our Vision is to be the leading voice for emerging business leaders.

Our Focus resides in three key areas:

Leadership Development: Working with our corporate partners to identify gaps in their structure to support our emerging business leaders, and supporting our NextGen leaders as they advance in their careers.
Insights: We generate insights from direct community engagement in building our policy agenda, showcasing the issues that matter most to our emerging business leaders.
Engagement: Through education, we engage policy makers, market shapers, advocates, and our NextGen business leaders on public policy, and ensure they have a seat at the table as we shape the future economy.

Our Values drive our work - here at the NextGen Chamber of Commerce, we value:

Stakeholder Value Creation: Ensuring that we are creating meaningful impact for our partners and beneficiaries.
Collaborative Network: We seek to build a collaborative network for our emerging business leaders, allowing them the chance to learn from each other and build connections as they advance in their careers.
Respect: We honor and consider the importance of varying voices inside of our emerging business leadership.
Integrity: We conduct ourselves with the utmost professionalism.
Forward-Thinking: We value innovation and forward-thinking as we build the future economy.

Our Impact ensures our emerging business leaders have the support they deserve:

Our collaboration with Next Gen HQ, and the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation has impacted over 150 youth entrepreneurs in Genesee County, Michigan with mentorship, networking, and collaboration.
We ensure emerging business leaders have a seat at the table with national, and international leaders in public policy and business.
We generate insights through direct community engagement - ensuring that NextGen insights and perspectives are reported and represented.

Join Us in supporting our emerging business leaders today!

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