Rockford Chamber offers Speakers Bureau service

Add comment April 3rd, 2008

The Rockford Chamber of Commerce has launched a Speakers Bureau which makes Chamber-member professionals available as guest speakers for local meetings and events.

You can find a complete list of the speakers at www.rockfordchamber.com by clicking on the “Speakers Bureau” icon. There’s an online speaker request form and a list of speaker categories:
* Human resources and organizational development;
* Sales and marketing;
* Communications;
* Finance;
* Personal development;
* Customer service;
* Technology; and
* Continuous improvement.

Monetary charges or honorariums for the speakers are determined between individual event planners and speakers, said John Groh, chamber vice president, marketing and public affairs.

Here’s how the Speakers Bureau came to be. The chamber — when it was planning its own events and seminars for 2008 — sent out a “call for presentations” to its members, asking them to share their areas of expertise as prospective speakers, said Groh.
The number of responses to the request was so overwhelming, he said, “we thought, ‘how can we share this resource with the broader community?’”