Join us for our installment of the Pacesetters Doing Business series featuring Mass General Brigham on August 7, 2025.
08/07/2025
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Virtual
The BIMA Summer Sizzler is a chance to network with your digital media industry peers from the agency, publisher, and adtech community!
08/14/2025
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Fenway Park
Join Boston’s leading educators and industry experts to explore career-aligned high school programs, in-demand workplace skills, and innovative school partnerships driving student success
07/17/2025
9:00am - 11:00am
Omni Boston Hotel Seaport
This program is in redevelopment. Click this page for DEI resources.
Our Women’s Leadership Program enables you to take your leadership to the next level by arming you with the most in-demand leadership toolkit.
Our Boston’s Future Leaders (BFL) program provides emerging leaders with a socially conscious and civically engaged leadership toolkit, as well as the opportunity to apply their knowledge through experiential assignments.
In this highly interactive workshop with Strategic Career & Leadership Coach Carole-Ann Penney, you’ll define your professional identity and develop strategies to confidently navigate workplace dynamics.
City Awake empowers young professionals in a variety of ways that encourages these rising leaders to stay invested in the region’s future success.
We are developing an ecosystem of corporations and partners with the influence and buying power to transform economic inclusion for minority business enterprises (MBEs).
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Learning & Development
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Our Boston’s Future Leaders (BFL) program provides emerging and promising leaders with a socially conscious and civically engaged leadership toolkit blending academic content, practical application, and networking. Participants graduate with the skills, experiences, and connections needed to lead Boston and the region into an equitable, innovative future.
In the orientation, Chamber learning & development staff welcome the incoming class, facilitate introductions among the group, and outline program content and expectations for the year. Immediately afterwards, participants begin their leadership journey at Harvard Business School in the first module focused on leadership authenticity and identity.
The Leadership Challenge is a capstone experience of BFL, and this session introduces this year’s partnering organization and challenge topic. Participants go “behind-the-scenes” of one of Boston’s most interesting and influential places of business, and hear directly from prominent leaders on a hot topic directly affecting not only the business but the Greater Boston region.
Diversity @ Workplace, the Chamber’s delivery partner, focuses this session on the critical skills and awareness needed to manage a diverse workforce and to build inclusive environments for equitable workplace experiences. Moving beyond basic training, participants gain a greater understanding of key DEI concepts and learn to navigate the current state of DEI in the workplace.
TSNE Missionworks, the Chamber’s delivery partner, assists participants in finding their preferred supervisory styles that also consider their individual team members’ needs. Participants practice adapting their supervisory approach and communication style in several hands-on activities, then engage in a reflection discussion on how to hold successful one-on-one meetings.
In the morning segment, participants finalize and practice their Leadership Challenge pitches/presentations in their assigned groups. After lunch, project teams present to a judging panel comprised of leadership from the partnering organization and other civic leaders. This session provides an important opportunity for participants to apply what they’ve learned in the program.
Chamber learning & development staff introduce the parameters for the Individual Action Project, an opportunity for participants to apply what they learn in the program to a specific problem or issue in their own companies or communities. Then BFL alumni share their experiences with the IAP, followed by Q&A to help participants understand the assignment and feel prepared.
Participants attend one of the Chamber’s Government Affairs Forums, a series investigating the political and business landscapes in Boston and the state of Massachusetts. Speakers vary, but typically the September forum features the current city of Boston mayor. This session is optional but highly encouraged.
Participants return to Harvard Business School for a follow-up session to module 1 in the spring. Expanding to encompass leadership’s impact on companies and society at large, participants continue to dissect, analyze, and discuss case studies as a cohort and in small groups while engaging with returning and new Harvard faculty.
This session introduces an innovative way to change how participants communicate within their own workplaces, run meetings, and establish equitable learning opportunities for their teams. The Chamber’s director of learning & development, an advanced Visual Thinking Strategies facilitator, demonstrates how to elevate your company’s social-emotional intelligence.
This brand-new session includes a deep dive into understanding the Chamber’s Pacesetters program, examining the importance of procurement and spending with minority business enterprises. The Chamber’s economic inclusion staff engage with participants, take questions, then lead a discussion connecting civic engagement to corporate responsibility.
In the final session, participants present their Individual Action Projects, debrief the IAP experience, then celebrate each other and the cohort’s success in a small graduation ceremony. Immediately following, participants mingle with Chamber staff, board members, and select special guests in the closing networking reception.
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