CHAMBER ACADEMY  |  Become a Speaker

Chamber Academy was created to provide an easy and reliable way for Chamber members to get advice, learn concepts and garner information on a variety of important topics.  To ensure quality programming, the Chamber has implemented strict guidelines that each speaker must accept. 

Speaker Guidelines

• Chamber Academy sessions are educational, non-commercial forums.  Under no circumstances may a speaker use the Chamber Academy speaking engagement as an opportunity to promote their own product or service.  We will provide a tabletop display opportunity and attendee contact information for post presentation follow up.
  
  
• Speakers must refrain from statements or comments which can be deemed offensive, or anything less than professional.
  
  
• Speakers should fully disclose all intellectual property utilized within handout materials and during any session. This is to protect intellectual property rights such as copyright, ownership, and utilization of revenue derived from creation, production, and use for educational courses.
  
  
• Speakers must be current members of the Chamber.
  
  
• Proposed session topic must be relevant and generate enough interest to attract an audience of at least 30 participants.
  
  
• Proposed session must be clearly defined including learning objectives and what attendees can expect to take away from the session.
  
  
• Proposes session must be balanced to serve a variety of knowledge and skill levels.
  
  
• Speaker must possess the expertise, ability and skills to cover the subject matter.
  
  
• Speaker must possess a demonstrated ability to communicate useful and applicable information to the Chamber’s diverse audience.
  
  
• The speaker must be able to deliver his/her presentation in the allotted time available (presentations are generally 45-90 minutes in length).
  
  
• We are looking for a variety of topics applicable to diverse roles within a given business from customer service to human resources and multiple topics in between.

Submit Your Topic Now

We are looking for some “new faces” to promote via the Chamber Academy.  If you are interested in making a presentation to the Chamber audience, and you meet the criteria outlined above, please complete our Proposal for Educational Presentation, which consists of three parts:

Presenter’s Background, which tells us about the speaker/presenter;

Presentation References, which lists people who have heard you as a presenter;

Description of Presentation, which describes/outlines your presentation(s). [NOTE: You may submit up to three different presentation options]

The information we receive about you and your presentation is considered confidential and will not be shared.

Benefits for Chamber Academy Speakers

With an overabundance of advertising opportunities available everywhere it is very easy to believe that marketing is all about taglines and various techniques for improving campaign successes.  This neglects a major concept that can build credibility, trust, and consumer confidence - free help.  By offering valuable concepts, information and/or advice a speaker can quickly build credibility by actually providing a sample of their work or expertise.  This simple act of offering free information will set your company apart from the sea of similar companies that continually ask for business without really establishing any level of credibility or rapport.

Click here to view our list of benefits for speakers.