Hear From Past Participants

“This training was beneficial to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Tampa Bay because we solely depend on Grants, Donations and Memberships. Understanding how grants work and the proper way to submit is crucial to be able to comply with our annual plan. Which is focus on serving Hispanic business and the Hispanic community overall. A great proposal is the face of our Chamber and we must be prepared to demonstrate the purpose of our existence. Great presentation!!”

-Diane Cortes, President | Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Of Tampa Bay

“As a former institutional business development professional, I appreciate the CLDP training because it was very informative, inspiring and presented in an objective, practical and extremely eloquent manner.”

- Julie Hermes, CEO | NCE

“This is an outstanding opportunity to hone your Chamber skills as a staff member or board member.  Having the opportunity to hear from experts who are successful and have years of expertise in their field is extremely valuable.”  

- Suzanne Wheeler, Mid-America LGBT Chamber of Commerce

“The Chamber Leadership Alliance provided an outstanding Leadership and Governance training webinar series that provided great nuggets of information for those seeking to navigate board leadership during these challenging times. Looking forward to future webinars.” 

- Vincent Williams, Chicago Minority Supplier Development Council

“As promoter of opportunities for small businesses, the USHCC and their partners are the number one  business organization to help the growth of minorities and women own businesses by providing the necessary tools through programs like this to chambers.”            

 - Carlos Solórzano-Cuadra, CEO, HCCSF

“The CLDP Training is by far the best that I have attended.  The SOAR concept is what I plan to use with my Board and Balch Springs Chamber of Commerce.”                                    

 -  Alvester Gibson, Jr., President, Board and Balch Springs Chamber of Commerce

“Excellent speaker and presenter. Made a thought-provoking explanation and showed the way to get great engagement. I could take it again and see it from a higher level as a holistic process of regeneration.”

– James Duran, Chair of the CHCC Foundation

“I really enjoyed and appreciated all of the valuable information that this presentation offered.  It is very important to know ourselves before expecting others to follow us as a leader. Thank you, Kerri, for your expertise and insight.” 

– DJ Hicks, Exhib-it

“I appreciate the organizers for identifying these areas as being important for leaders and creating a platform to train us free of charge. Thank you all. I will surely train my colleagues and apply all I've learned to my work and organization when I return to my country of Nigeria. I look forward to completing the other stages.”

-Dr. Ayotegu Ogu

“Fantastic program, can use and replicate the system. I particularly like the program logic model and I am going to use it to structure our organization’s program going forward.”

-President, Women in Energy, Oil & Gas

“Though I'm new to a chamber, I can see the value of this training for more established chamber members too.  Software, business strategies, and organizational laws change. I look forward to taking it again because I know how important it is to remain open to learning new things.”

-Natalee Fisher, Raleigh Business Professional Network

“I've been attending the national conference for two years now.  It's a great way to network and get guidance from other chamber leaders.  The programming is good, as I'm always able to take back things that I learned and start working on implementation at our chamber.”

-Petrina Bloodworth, Atlanta Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce

“The US Black Chamber has done a great job bringing capacity building services directly to chambers across the US. The PFC Black Chamber participated in the Chamber Leadership Alliance where we heard from key consultants, banking representatives, and chamber leaders who shared resources we could take back to help expand and grow our local chamber.”

-Sandra Pruitt, PFC Black Chamber

“This session had the greatest impact on me. Non-profit information is normally overlooked at conferences.”

-Anonymous

“Presenter was very knowledgeable and engaging!”

-Anonymous

“I am honored to be part of this timely and relevant training.  The instructors and facilitators have provided very useful information for advancing our organization.”

-Candace Waterman, Women Impacting Public Policy

This training gives us the opportunity to come together as business leaders from the USA to share ideas and create unity among all participants to be able to accomplish our common goals.

-Santos Arroyo, FHACC

“This was a detailed web series and very relevant to our needs.”

-Anonymous

“Excellent presentation.  Very informative.”

-Anonymous