{"id":126912,"date":"2024-01-30T22:54:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T03:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126912"},"modified":"2024-01-30T22:56:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T03:56:44","slug":"sharing-inspiration-and-advice-to-the-valleys-young-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126912","title":{"rendered":"SHARING INSPIRATION AND ADVICE TO THE VALLEY&#8217;S YOUNG PROFESSIONALS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Lehigh Valley, PA\u00a0\u2013 The Young Professionals Council is excited to host their <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.lehighvalleychamber.org\/events\/2024Leadership%20Summit%20presented%20by%20the%20Young%20Professionals%20Council-839268\/details?fbclid=IwAR20zMlZxpg8fBxhS0p1b1J-59oB0Ztoj7yN_9VJzcHfBsdLd_qi4e-Wc5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5th Annual Leadership Summit<\/a> <\/strong>as a way to inspire, uplift and give advice to the Lehigh Valley&#8217;s young professionals. The event will take place on Thursday, February 29th, 2023, from 7:45 am &#8211; 12:00 pm at DeSales University.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Hear from Keynote Speaker\u00a0<strong>Alex Michaels<\/strong>,\u00a0President and CEO for Discover Lehigh Valley.\u00a0He served in the United States Navy from 2001-2005, as a medical hospital corpsman. In 2003 was named Pacific Northwest Sailor of the Year and received The Navy &amp; Marine Corps Achievement Medal. He has lead Visitors Bureau\u2019s in Florida and Virgina, now leading Lehigh Valley\u2019s destination marketing organization serving Lehigh and Northampton Counties.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Breakout Sessions:<\/strong><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>The Business of You \u2013<\/strong> Personal Branding for Big Results<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Shelley Maley, Dreamcatcher Career Coaching<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Elevate Your Leadership Potential: Networking and Mentorship Essentials \u2013<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Sponsored by: Cedar Crest College<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Krista Berardelli, Promenade Shops at Saucon Valley<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Tim Burke, New Bethany Ministries<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Carol Obando-Derstine, PPL Electric Utilities<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Moderated by: Molly MacDonald, Altitude Marketing<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Navigating Power &amp; Using Your Voice<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Meloney Sallie-Dosunmu, Precision Talent Intl.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Leadership Panel<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Jessica Elliot, Habitat for Humanity of the Lehigh Valley<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Santo Napoli, Assembly 88<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Katie Santana, ASR Media Productions<\/div>\n<div>\u2022 Moderated by: Genesis Ortega, Mayor\u2019s Office for the City of Allentown<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/web.lehighvalleychamber.org\/events\/2024Leadership%20Summit%20presented%20by%20the%20Young%20Professionals%20Council-839268\/details?fbclid=IwAR20zMlZxpg8fBxhS0p1b1J-59oB0Ztoj7yN_9VJzcHfBsdLd_qi4e-Wc5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tickets<\/a><\/strong> include breakfast, networking, complimentary headshot, keynote presentation, breakout sessions, panel discussion, vendor exhibits and more!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>Who<\/strong>:\u00a0The Young Professionals Council of the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce<\/div>\n<div><strong>What<\/strong>: Leadership Summit<\/div>\n<div><strong>When<\/strong>: Thursday, February 29th, 2023 &#8211; 7:45 AM &#8211; 12:00 PM<\/div>\n<div><strong>Where<\/strong>: DeSales University, University Center ,\u00a02755 Station Ave, Center Valley, PA 18034<\/div>\n<div><strong>Pricing Info<\/strong>:\u00a0$49 Member, $99 Future Member<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/web.lehighvalleychamber.org\/events\/2024Leadership%20Summit%20presented%20by%20the%20Young%20Professionals%20Council-839268\/details?fbclid=IwAR20zMlZxpg8fBxhS0p1b1J-59oB0Ztoj7yN_9VJzcHfBsdLd_qi4e-Wc5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/web.lehighvalleychamber.org\/events\/2024Leadership%20Summit%20presented%20by%20the%20Young%20Professionals%20Council-839268\/details?fbclid=IwAR20zMlZxpg8fBxhS0p1b1J-59oB0Ztoj7yN_9VJzcHfBsdLd_qi4e-Wc5o<\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>Sponsored by:\u00a0Air Products, Capital Blue Cross, Cedar Crest College, EBC Printing &amp; Signs, Moon Honey Photography,\u00a0Norris McLaughlin\u00a0and Olympus Corporation of the Americas.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><em>Sponsors as of 1\/29\/2024<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><strong>About The Chamber<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>The Chamber\u2019s mission is to improve the economy and quality of life in the Lehigh Valley.\u00a0\u00a0Serving more than 5,000 businesses and members\u00a0with more than 280,000, the Chamber is the largest in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, and in the top six nationwide. Our thirty-plus affiliated chambers, councils and committees are On Every Main Street with more than 1,500 community focused volunteers who actively contribute, at the grass roots, to develop and achieve their respective and collective goals.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Information provided to TVL by:<br \/>\nBrittany Keal<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lehigh Valley, PA\u00a0\u2013 The Young Professionals Council is excited to host their 5th Annual Leadership Summit as a way to inspire, uplift and give advice to the Lehigh Valley&#8217;s young &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=126912\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SHARING INSPIRATION AND ADVICE TO THE VALLEY&#8217;S YOUNG PROFESSIONALS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/summit.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}