Speakers Bureau

The Chamber’s Speakers Bureau is a library of speakers for businesses and organizations in our community who are looking for engaging, knowledgeable presenters.

If you have insights, experience, or a topic that could benefit others, whether it’s leadership, marketing, AI, workforce, or beyond, we encourage you to submit your information!

The Fox Cities Chamber Speakers Bureau is a resource designed to connect organizations with potential speakers from our membership. The views, opinions, and content expressed by individual speakers are solely those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect the views, positions, or endorsement of the Fox Cities Chamber.

The Chamber does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or quality of any presentation and is not responsible for any outcomes resulting from engagements with listed speakers. Organizations are encouraged to conduct their own due diligence when selecting and engaging a speaker.

Leadership

Presenter: Matthew Rabe – Founder/Owner, Kingdom Training

Description: Your team isn’t underperforming because of bad strategy. They’re underperforming because of who they believe they are. Most leadership problems aren’t process problems, they’re identity problems. In this session, leaders will learn to identify the hidden belief loops and internal narratives quietly limiting their team’s performance, and understand how learned helplessness takes root in a culture without anyone realizing it. Because you can’t lead people out of patterns you can’t see. From there, we’ll break down how a single shift in meaning can immediately change how your team makes decisions, responds to pressure, and executes not after a long change management initiative, but in real time. Finally, we’ll expose the identity-performance connection most leaders miss: you can’t build a high-performing team by managing behavior alone. When you learn to shift identity at the root level, yours and theirs, consistent execution stops being something you have to force and starts being something your culture produces naturally.
No theory. No fluff. Just the framework that turns struggling teams into operators.

Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 224-5949

Management

Sales & Business Development

Marketing & Branding

AI & Technology

Workforce & Talent Development

Presenter: Bill Ostrum – Owner, Career Climbers LLC

Description:

Beyond the Paper: Build Your Brand So It Precedes You!
On average, a recruiter looks at a resume for about 6 to 8 seconds during the initial screening process. The way I see it, before a recruiter ever opens your resume, they should already know your name. This session is designed for those tired of being “just another applicant” in a digital stack. We are shifting the focus from passive application to active presence.

True professional standing doesn’t happen in a Word document; it happens when you live your value out loud. We’ll explore how to “build yourself forward” by cultivating a reputation that precedes you. This isn’t about catchy fonts or cover letter templates, it’s about radical authenticity and visible expertise.

I’m here to help you learn how to:

  • Shine Your Light: Identify your unique “value frequency” and broadcast it through strategic networking and thought leadership.
  • Live Out Loud: Use digital platforms and professional communities to solve problems in public, making your skills undeniable.
  • Create Gravitational Pull: Shift from chasing opportunities to attracting them by becoming a “category of one” in your field.

Stop waiting for permission to be noticed. Learn how to embody your value so brightly that the resume becomes a formality, not a gatekeeper.

Contact:
[email protected]
(630) 962-0260

Customer Experience

Human Resources

Finance & Operations

Presenter: Aaron Johnson – Managing Member, Transworld Business Advisors of Northeast Wisconsin

Description: Most business owners wait until they’re ready to sell before thinking about what their business is worth, and by then, it’s often too late to move the number. The decisions you make in the three to five years before a sale have more impact on your final selling price than anything that happens during the sale itself.

In this presentation, attendees will learn:

  • How business valuations actually work, and why SDE and EBITDA multiples vary so widely.
  • The top factors buyers pay a premium for (and the red flags that cause discounts).
  • Common mistakes that quietly destroy value: owner dependency, customer concentration, sloppy books, deferred maintenance.
  • Practical steps to take now, whether you’re selling in one year or ten.
  • What to expect from the sale process: timelines, confidentiality, buyer types, and negotiation dynamics. 

Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 305-7247

Entrepreneurship / Startups

Personal Development

Presenter: Rhonda Dohms – CEO, Dohms Metabolic Health & Business Coaching

Description: When an individual creates the best version of themselves in body, mind and spirit, that flows into their business and builds a business that is healthy in customer service, employee relations and financially.  How personal health and development affects one’s business.

Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 205-6007

Presenter: Logan Ferguson – CEO, Your Future Career

Description: Most keynotes on imposter syndrome treat the feeling as the disease and confidence as the cure. This talk argues the opposite. The feeling is a symptom. The actual disease is the quiet, compounding misalignment between how a professional describes themselves and how the world around them has been consistently seeing them for years. The cure is not a switch but instead tangible.

Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 383-1992

Presenter: Matthew Rabe – Founder/Owner, Kingdom Training

Description: You’re not stuck because you lack strategy. You’re stuck because of what you believe. Most people don’t have an execution problem, they have an identity problem. In this session, attendees learn to spot the hidden belief loops and internal narratives quietly running your results, and understand exactly how learned helplessness forms without your awareness. Because you can’t change what you can’t see. From there, we’ll break down how a single shift in meaning can immediately change your emotional state, your decisions, and your output, not in 90 days, but in real time. You’ll experience it in the room. Finally, we’ll expose the identity-performance connection most high performers completely miss: behavior doesn’t drive identity, identity drives behavior. When you change who you believe you are at the root level, consistent action stops being a grind and starts being automatic. No theory. No fluff. Just the framework that makes real change finally stick.

Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 224-5949

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