Looking for a speaker who will inform, inspire, and engage your audience? You’re in the right place.
The Fox Cities Chamber Speakers Bureau is your go-to resource for connecting with knowledgeable, dynamic speakers from across our business community. Whether you’re planning a team training, conference, workshop, or community event, you’ll find local experts ready to share real-world insights and practical takeaways.
From leadership and workplace culture to marketing, AI, workforce trends, and more, our speakers bring a wide range of perspectives and experience to help move your organization forward. Browse by category, explore topics, and connect directly with speakers who align with your goals.
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The Fox Cities Chamber Speakers Bureau is intended to serve as a connection point between organizations and speakers within our membership. The views, opinions, and content expressed by individual speakers are solely those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect the views or positions of the Fox Cities Chamber. While we aim to provide a valuable and diverse resource, the Chamber does not guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or quality of any presentation and is not responsible for outcomes resulting from speaker engagements. We encourage organizations to conduct their own due diligence when selecting and working with a speaker.
*PLEASE NOTE: To be eligible to submit your information to the Speakers Bureau, you must be a current Fox Cities Chamber member in good standing. This resource is designed for both internal Chamber programming and external use by businesses, organizations, and community groups seeking speakers. Submissions must be for informational presentations only; not courses, classes, or workshops. To ensure the Speakers Bureau remains a professional, inclusive resource for the broader business community, the Chamber does not accept presentations that are political or religious in nature. Additionally, presentations that promote discrimination, illegal activity, or content that could be considered offensive, defamatory, or inconsistent with the Chamber’s mission and values will not be accepted. The Chamber reserves the right to edit or deny submissions at its discretion. Please note that submitting this form does not guarantee speaking engagements.
Presenter: Spencer Jones – CEO, Jonesin’ for
Description:
Most teams do not fall apart overnight. They get heavier.
Leaders carry more decisions, more pressure, more people issues, and more uncertainty than most people realize. Over time, that pressure can quietly affect clarity, communication, decision-making, morale, and retention.
In this practical presentation, Spencer Jones helps attendees understand how leadership pressure shows up in everyday work and why doing more is not always the answer. He shares a simple framework leaders can use to pause, recognize what is happening, and choose a clearer next step instead of reacting from stress or overwhelm.
Attendees will learn how to identify early signs of leadership strain, reduce mental overload in real time, and create a steadier pace for themselves and their teams.
This session is ideal for business owners, executives, managers, HR leaders, and team leads who want to stay calm under pressure, clear in the moment, and effective as their organization grows.
Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 277-1183
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
Presenter: Ken Dombrowski – Executive Life Coach & Master Hypnotist, Your Executive Life Coaching
Description:
Confidence is one of the most powerful tools in sales success. Confidence That Converts helps sales professionals overcome hesitation, handle rejection, and communicate with greater certainty and impact. Participants learn how mindset influences results, how to project confidence naturally, and how to build stronger client trust. This presentation includes practical performance strategies and techniques to reduce fear, improve focus, and strengthen motivation. Ideal for sales teams, entrepreneurs, and business development professionals looking to increase results through stronger confidence and presence. This presentation can be tailored to fit any business or organization’s needs and can also include hypnosis upon request.
Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 445-4322
Presenter: Pete Dulcamara – Founder, Pete Dulcamara & Associates, LLC
Description:
As the Fox Cities enters a new phase of transformation, local businesses are not just adapting to change. They are shaping what comes next. AI, advanced manufacturing, clean energy, and digital platforms are expanding what is possible. At the same time, expectations are rising around purpose, trust, and impact.
This session explores how to navigate that tension without losing what matters most. Through a humanity-centric lens, leaders are challenged to think differently about value creation. Not only in terms of growth and efficiency, but in the lives improved, talent developed, and communities strengthened along the way.
The focus shifts from technology alone to the people who will apply it, question it, and ultimately determine its impact. What does it take to build organizations that can move fast, adapt continuously, and stay grounded in values? How do you turn emerging capabilities into practical advantage while bringing your workforce and community with you?
Leaders will leave with a clear way to move from insight to action. They will make smarter bets, build resilient teams, and help shape a future that works for their business and for the region they serve.
Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 216-4120
Presenter: Amanda Van Den Elzen – Founder & Facilitator, BetterWork Training
Description:
You are spending tens, maybe even hundreds, of thousands of dollars on enterprise AI licenses, yet your bottom line hasn’t moved. Between licenses sitting idle and employees using AI for “fluff” tasks that don’t impact your goals, it’s easy to wonder if your investment is just an expensive fad.
The truth is, access isn’t adoption. Most teams are stuck because they haven’t been shown how these tools apply to their specific strategic initiatives and day-to-day work. This 90-minute workshop eliminates wasted spend by transforming your AI tool from a novelty into an indispensable partner tailored to your team’s specific function. Whether you’re targeting the HR team, Operations, Sales, Finance, or another function within your business, I can tailor this session to their unique workflows and objectives.
Learning Objectives:
Stop subsidizing idle software. Turn your AI investment into a measurable engine for results.
Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 328-5598
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:
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
Presenter: Amanda Van Den Elzen – Founder & Facilitator, BetterWork Training
Description:
What do high-performance motorsports marketing teams and unforgettable learning experiences have in common? They both know how to grab attention, keep people engaged, and drive behavior — fast.
In this high-energy, hands-on session, you’ll explore how the same principles that fuel viral social media content and fan-favorite marketing campaigns can transform your learning strategy. Whether you’re designing onboarding, compliance, or leadership development, the key to impact is simple: Entertain first, inform second.
You’ll walk away with a fresh framework for creating learning content that learners actually want to engage with — and remember.
Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 328-5598
Presenter: Ken Dombrowski – Executive Life Coach & Master Hypnotist, Your Executive Life Coaching
Description:
Stress can reduce focus, productivity, and overall well-being in the workplace. Stress Less, Achieve More is a presentation designed to help professionals manage pressure, stay calm under demands, and perform at a higher level. Participants will learn practical strategies to reduce daily stress, improve mental clarity, and build resilience during challenging situations. Guided mindset and relaxation techniques help attendees reset mentally and regain control over stress responses. This presentation is ideal for organizations seeking healthier, more productive employees with stronger morale and improved performance. It can be tailored to fit any business or organization’s needs and can also include hypnosis upon request.
Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 445-4322
Presenter: Julie Johnson – Race Director, Fox Cities Marathon
Description:
The Fox Cities Marathon organization is a full year, and a full-time job to bring a large-scale event to our community. What it takes is our community to make it happen along with keeping track of the many details for a safe, successful, and fun participant experience. In this presentation, reviewing of the logistics, operation and execution will reveal how this premier event has been going for 35 years.
Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 882-9499
Presenter: Brenna VanRooy – Audit Manager, Hawkins Ash CPAs
Description:
Employee benefit plan financial statements come with unique and complex compliance requirements—and even well-managed plans often encounter avoidable issues. We help plan sponsors and finance teams understand what “compliance” really means under ERISA and auditing standards, and how to confidently meet those expectations. We’ll highlight common problem areas—like investment reporting, participant data accuracy, and required disclosures—that frequently lead to audit findings. We’ll also share practical insights from real-world audits, including areas regulators and peer reviewers continue to scrutinize. Whether you sponsor a 401(k), ESOP, or defined benefit plan, this session will give you clarity and actionable steps to stay ahead of compliance challenges.
Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 502-7082
Presenter: Brenna VanRooy – Audit Manager, Hawkins Ash CPAs
Description:
Designing an employee benefit plan is one of the most impactful decisions you can make for your business—but with so many options, it can quickly become overwhelming. In this session, we’ll guide you through the key decisions and bring them to life with real-world examples from organizations similar to yours. You’ll gain insight into how others have structured their plans to attract top talent, enhance employee satisfaction, and create meaningful strategic advantages for their company.
Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 502-7082
Presenter: Donald Herrmann – Vice President, Human Resources, Future Focused HR™
Description:
How strategic HR improves organizational performance, productivity, profitability, and shareholder value.
Many organizations treat their workforce as an expense instead of a driver of business success. Participants and learn how, through strong workforce processes, add significantly to their margin and overall business performance.
Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 204-1841
Presenter: April McNamara – Community Liaison, CarePatrol
Description:
This session is designed for companies seeking meaningful, cost-effective ways to strengthen workplace culture and improve employee retention. Many employees are quietly managing the demands of caring for aging loved ones while working full time. This often impacts focus, stress levels, attendance, and performance. By 2030, all baby boomers will be 65 or older, and more than half of family caregivers are also employed, creating a growing workforce challenge.
Attendees will learn key factors that determine whether a loved one can safely remain at home, how to recognize when additional care is needed, and when it may be time to explore other options. The session also highlights how CarePatrol serves as a no-cost resource that HR teams can offer as an employee benefit by helping families navigate complex and emotional senior care decisions. This support can reduce workplace disruption, strengthen retention, and position organizations as truly employee-friendly employers of choice.
Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 841-4174
Presenter: Dan Fochs – Audit Manager, Hawkins Ash CPAs
Description:
Nonprofit financial reporting involves more than just numbers—it requires aligning GAAP financial statements, audit expectations, and the highly visible Form 990.
In this session, we’ll help you understand how these pieces connect and where organizations most often run into issues. You’ll gain clarity on preparing financial statements in accordance with the appropriate reporting framework and what auditors expect to see. We’ll also break down Form 990—not just as a tax filing, but as a public document used by donors, regulators, and other stakeholders to evaluate your organization.
Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 502-7064
Presenter: Brenna VanRooy – Audit Manager, Hawkins Ash CPAs
Description:
Facing your first financial statement engagement can feel overwhelming—but it doesn’t have to be. In this session, we help you shift from reactive to prepared by walking through what auditors actually need, when they need it, and why it matters. We’ll break down the engagement process—from planning to fieldwork to reporting—and highlight practical steps your team can take to stay ahead. Whether you’re preparing for an audit, review, or compilation, this session will give you the tools and clarity to make your first engagement smooth—and successful.
Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 502-7082
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:
Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 305-7247
Presenter: Aaron Johnson – Managing Member, Transworld Business Advisors of Northeast Wisconsin
Description:
Startups and new products face high failure rates. Grit and funding alone are rarely the solution. Success requires navigating the narrow ridge between ignorance and analysis paralysis. Successful startups and entrepreneurs are driven by an acute awareness of an unmet need and the discipline to execute a feedback loop of Hypothesis, Measure, Analysis, Improve, and Iteration. This presentation provides actionable frameworks to increase the odds of success by focusing on the core pillars of startup survival:
Contact:
[email protected]
(989) 615-5426
Presenter: Savannah Busnelli – Mindset & Empowerment Coach, Wellness by Savvy
Description:
Gratitude is more than simply “thinking positive.” It is a powerful mindset practice that can influence emotional wellness, perspective, relationships, and overall well-being. This presentation explores how intentionally recognizing and appreciating the good in daily life, both big and small, can help shift perspective and create greater positivity, fulfillment, and inner peace. Attendees will learn how gratitude impacts mindset, why small shifts in awareness matter, and practical ways to build gratitude into everyday routines, even during stressful or challenging seasons. Through real-life insight, reflection, and actionable tools, participants will leave with simple strategies to strengthen appreciation, increase presence, and support a healthier, more grounded outlook in both personal and professional life.
Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 312-7425
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
Presenter: Heather Bancroft – Speech & Language Pathologist, Speech Treat LLC
Description: Your nervous system is the operating system behind your professional performance, dictating how clearly you think, how effectively you lead, and how much energy you have left at the end of the day. Neurosomatic Intelligence (NSI) is a simple, science-backed way to work with your brain’s natural wiring to change how you feel and perform in real-time. In this interactive session, we are moving beyond generic, “one-size-fits-all” stress management. First, you will learn how to “check in” with your nervous system using a variety of simple assessments. This will allow you to read your body’s signals and respond effectively. Then, we will practice three quick, “high-payoff drills” that take only minutes but can instantly sharpen your focus and boost your energy across the work day. By using these targeted drills, you can shift your nervous system out of “overdrive” and stress-based “F-responses”—like fight, flight, freeze, or fawn—and back into a calm, parasympathetic state where your body can truly rest and digest. Most importantly, you will walk away with specific tools to help you flip the switch from “work mode” to “home mode”. By mastering these simple shifts, you can protect your productivity at work and, more importantly, ensure you have the energy and presence to enjoy your life rather than just rolling through the motions.
Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 418-1403
Presenter: Maria Pascente – Director of Operation – Occupational Health, Ascension
Description:
This presentation outlines the value of Occupational Health services and the important role they play in helping organizations build and maintain a healthy, productive workforce. It emphasizes that long-term success depends not only on hiring the right people, but also on supporting employees’ health and well-being throughout their employment.
We review Occupational Health best practices that help reduce workplace injuries, ensure regulatory compliance, and support timely, effective care when incidents do occur. These services also focus on prevention, including screenings, early intervention, and workplace health strategies that help minimize risk and reduce downtime.
A key theme is the importance of taking a holistic approach to employee health and wellness. This means addressing physical, mental, and emotional well-being so employees can show up as their best selves at work. When organizations invest in comprehensive wellness support, they often see improvements in engagement, retention, and overall productivity.
Ultimately, the presentation reinforces that healthy employees are essential to a thriving organization. By combining strong hiring practices with proactive Occupational Health and wellness initiatives, employers can create safer workplaces, support employee success, and drive stronger organizational performance.
Contact:
[email protected]
(414) 708-2320
Presenter: Savannah Busnelli – Mindset & Empowerment Coach, Wellness by Savvy
Description:
Burnout in today’s workplace is often less about workload and more about how we communicate, the boundaries we hold, and the patterns we repeat every day, both at work and in our personal lives. This presentation explores how unclear communication, people-pleasing tendencies, and blurred boundaries contribute to stress, disconnection, and burnout. Participants will gain practical, easy-to-apply tools to communicate more clearly, set and maintain healthy boundaries, and shift patterns that lead to feeling overwhelmed. Rather than adding more to an already full plate, this session focuses on simplifying how we show up at work and in our lives. Attendees will leave with a deeper awareness of their communication habits, language they can immediately apply, and strategies to support both individual well-being and a more sustainable, connected workplace.
Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 312-7425
Presenter: Ken Dombrowski – Executive Life Coach & Master Hypnotist, Your Executive Life Coaching
Description:
Maintaining balance between work responsibilities and personal well-being is essential for long-term success. Work Life Balance helps professionals create healthier boundaries, reduce burnout, and improve fulfillment. Participants learn tools for managing time, reducing overwhelm, and staying present both at work and at home. Guided mindset and relaxation techniques help reduce stress and restore mental clarity. This presentation is ideal for organizations that value employee wellness, retention, and sustainable performance.This presentation can be tailored to fit any business or organization’s needs and can also include hypnosis upon request.
Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 445-4322
Presenter: Debby Suchyta – Executive Director, Just Talk To Them
Description:
The presentations are built for real-world parenting—no scare tactics, just honest, accessible guidance on how to keep children and teens safer online and in daily life. We cover:
These free seminars can be delivered in person or virtually, and are great for school parent groups, church communities, PTAs, or neighborhood organizations.
Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 422-8330
Presenter: Caleb Azure – Owner/Principal, Azure Insurance Solutions
Description:
This is a Medicare 101 educational seminar designed to help individuals turning 65 or currently on Medicare better understand their options. This session provides a clear, unbiased overview of Medicare Parts A, B, C, and D, along with important enrollment timelines, coverage choices, and common pitfalls to avoid. Led by a licensed local insurance professional, this workshop is strictly educational—no specific plans will be discussed or sold. Attendees will leave with greater confidence in navigating Medicare and have the opportunity to ask general questions in a relaxed, community-focused setting.
Contact:
[email protected]
(920) 489-0844