(CONNECT) Successful Business Strategies: Chamber 201
Name:
(CONNECT) Successful Business Strategies: Chamber 201
Date:
April 11, 2025
Time:
7:45 AM - 10:00 AM EDT
Registration:
Register Now
Event Description:
Welcome to the NEW Small Business Seminar and Step 2 in the New Member Learn. Connect. Grow. Event Series!
Chamber Learn. Connect. Grow.
Speaker: Brittany Cartwright
All current members are provided with a complimentary Best Practices Training session; members receive information about how to best activate their relationships in the Chamber. In addition, we review the various ways members can engage with our Chamber to ensure they are capitalizing on their membership.
After the Best Practices training is completed, a member of the Chamber will teach attendees a business strategy that has helped them in their business. Event Is open to non-members as well.
Successful Business Strategies: Topic TBA
Presented by: Trudy Crowetz, CEO, Nonprofits First
Trudy Crowetz has been involved in nonprofit leadership for over 25 years. She is a Certified Public Accountant who has served as the Chief Financial Officer for several nonprofit organizations during her career. Trudy has been focused on achieving organizational excellence for these organizations, and she brings her vast expertise in this area to Nonprofits First, where she has also worked as a fiscal reviewer, as a member of the Standards Committee, and as a graduate of the 2014 Rising Leaders, and the 2023 Advancing Leaders program.
Trudy strives to be a servant leader who puts the needs of others first. She served in the Emergency Operations Center during two hurricanes, and she was instrumental in assisting the county with securing volunteers and medical staff to serve in the shelters. She later received recognition from the county as being a “Hero of the Storm”.
She is a lifelong learner who is passionate about leadership development, which is evidenced by the various leadership programs in which she has participated, including the Leadership Palm Beach County’s Engage Class of 2022 and Focus Class of 2019, as well as Leadership West Palm Beach’s Class of 2017. She was honored to be chosen to participate in United Way Worldwide’s Advanced Leadership Program Class of 2018, where she was one of 17 people chosen from over 1,500 affiliates.
She is an active community volunteer advocates for women in leadership and has served as President, Secretary, and Treasurer for Executive Women of the Palm Beaches Foundation. She recently served on the board of the Croquet Foundation of America as the Treasurer, and she enjoys playing croquet in her free time. She has two grown children: AJ Crowetz, who is a Senior Production and Capacity Planner for Resilience in Gainesville, Florida and Alicia Crowetz, who is a Firefighter/Paramedic for the Pembroke Pines Fire Department in Broward County, Florida.
Photo Release Policy:
By attending this event, you hereby give the Palm Beach North Chamber of Commerce, their assigns, licenses, and legal representatives the irrevocable right to use, at no cost, your name (or any fictional name), picture, portrait, photograph, visual, and/or voice recording and likeness, in all forms and media and in all manners, including photo, film, audio, video, and all social media representations, for nonprofit, public or educational purposes, and waive any right to inspect or approve the finished product, including written copy that may be created in connection therewith, and any claim or right to compensation for such use.
Chamber Learn. Connect. Grow.
Speaker: Brittany Cartwright
All current members are provided with a complimentary Best Practices Training session; members receive information about how to best activate their relationships in the Chamber. In addition, we review the various ways members can engage with our Chamber to ensure they are capitalizing on their membership.
After the Best Practices training is completed, a member of the Chamber will teach attendees a business strategy that has helped them in their business. Event Is open to non-members as well.
Successful Business Strategies: Topic TBA
Presented by: Trudy Crowetz, CEO, Nonprofits First
Trudy Crowetz has been involved in nonprofit leadership for over 25 years. She is a Certified Public Accountant who has served as the Chief Financial Officer for several nonprofit organizations during her career. Trudy has been focused on achieving organizational excellence for these organizations, and she brings her vast expertise in this area to Nonprofits First, where she has also worked as a fiscal reviewer, as a member of the Standards Committee, and as a graduate of the 2014 Rising Leaders, and the 2023 Advancing Leaders program.Trudy strives to be a servant leader who puts the needs of others first. She served in the Emergency Operations Center during two hurricanes, and she was instrumental in assisting the county with securing volunteers and medical staff to serve in the shelters. She later received recognition from the county as being a “Hero of the Storm”.
She is a lifelong learner who is passionate about leadership development, which is evidenced by the various leadership programs in which she has participated, including the Leadership Palm Beach County’s Engage Class of 2022 and Focus Class of 2019, as well as Leadership West Palm Beach’s Class of 2017. She was honored to be chosen to participate in United Way Worldwide’s Advanced Leadership Program Class of 2018, where she was one of 17 people chosen from over 1,500 affiliates.
She is an active community volunteer advocates for women in leadership and has served as President, Secretary, and Treasurer for Executive Women of the Palm Beaches Foundation. She recently served on the board of the Croquet Foundation of America as the Treasurer, and she enjoys playing croquet in her free time. She has two grown children: AJ Crowetz, who is a Senior Production and Capacity Planner for Resilience in Gainesville, Florida and Alicia Crowetz, who is a Firefighter/Paramedic for the Pembroke Pines Fire Department in Broward County, Florida.
Photo Release Policy:
By attending this event, you hereby give the Palm Beach North Chamber of Commerce, their assigns, licenses, and legal representatives the irrevocable right to use, at no cost, your name (or any fictional name), picture, portrait, photograph, visual, and/or voice recording and likeness, in all forms and media and in all manners, including photo, film, audio, video, and all social media representations, for nonprofit, public or educational purposes, and waive any right to inspect or approve the finished product, including written copy that may be created in connection therewith, and any claim or right to compensation for such use.
| Event Cancellation Policy: A notice of cancellation must be received by e-mail within 48 hours (2 business days) prior to the event. NO verbal cancellations will be accepted. Cancellations under 48 hours prior to the event, will NOT receive event credit in order to solidify attendance numbers with the event venue. All cancellation notices received BEFORE 48 hours (2 business days) prior to the event will be given an event credit of equal value. Event credits will be applied upon request and are good for up to 1 year from the purchase date. There are NO REFUNDS. |
NOTE: Premier Events (ArtiGras Tickets / Loggerhead Triathlon Registrations) and Special Events (The Leadership Awards Dinner / Holiday Mixer / Business 2 Baseball / Golf Classic) do not qualify for an event credit upon cancellation. Contributions or gifts to the Palm Beach North Chamber of Commerce are not deductible as charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. |
Event Sponsors:
Series Sponsor
Location:
JMC Board Room @ Palm Beach North Chamber (5520 PGA Blvd, Suite 200, Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418)
Date/Time Information:
7:45 a.m. - Meet and Greet
8 a.m. - Chamber's CONNECT Program
8:30 a.m. - Coffee Break
8:45 a.m. - Business Strategy Session
9:45 a.m. - Q+A
10 a.m. - Event Ends
8 a.m. - Chamber's CONNECT Program
8:30 a.m. - Coffee Break
8:45 a.m. - Business Strategy Session
9:45 a.m. - Q+A
10 a.m. - Event Ends
Contact Information:
Brian Elkins
Fees/Admission:
FREE for current members (Discount Applied at checkout)
$25 for Future Members
$25 for Future Members
