Develop Your Leadership Skills
with Community Leaders

Traverse Connect's Community Mentoring program is returning in February 2023. Using a strengths-based model, participants will be matched one-on-one with community leaders for a four-month, cohort-based program to pursue their career and leadership goals.

"I strongly recommend the Community Mentoring program," says Operations Partner at Mawby Sparkling Wines, Peter Laing. "I went through as a mentee this year and definitely gained some insight, as well as the confidence, to move forward in some of the areas where I felt like I was struggling a little bit as a leader in our business."

Meet this year's 12 Community Mentors, and apply by this Friday, November 18.

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News from Traverse Connect that you might have missed.

→ This quarter's Traverse City Young Professionals Morning Meetup will feature a very special guest. Paul Britten will share wisdom and insight from his 35+ years of leading one of the nation's premier creative production houses, Britten, Inc., tomorrow morning from 8-9 a.m. at the Traverse Connect first-floor conference room.

→ Last Monday, over 600 attendees joined us for the Annual Economic Summit at the Grand Traverse Resort. Building a championship economy in northern Michigan was the focus of the energizing and informative keynote address and panel discussion.

→ Our talent attraction brand, Michigan's Creative Coast, is now accepting applications for the first-ever digital Freelance & Independent Talent Directory of the Grand Traverse Region. The Directory offers local entrepreneurs a microsite to showcase their resumes, portfolios, and services while creating B2B development among freelancers and local businesses.

→ The Michigan House of Representatives passed the bi-partisan Housing Michigan legislation, which would expand proven programs that allow builders and non-profits to work with their local government to create workforce housing in their area.

Our midweek reading list.

→ Boost customer awareness and reach more holiday shoppers by registering your business for the American Express "Shop Small" map before Small Business Saturday.

→ Founded in 2001, TCNewTech has grown into a community of tech enthusiasts, businesses, entrepreneurs, and policymakers focused on building a culture of innovation, economic growth, and opportunity for local talent. Get to know the origins, impact, and alumni of TCNewTech.

→ Two Traverse City brothers will appear on Shark Tank this Friday, November 18, at 8 p.m. for their innovative, adventurous, and Traverse-City-based company, ActionGlow.

→ Builders Exchange of Northwest Michigan will welcome economic expert Anirban Basu to present a forecast on the impacts of elevated inflation, lingering pandemic, worker shortages, the war in Europe, rising interest rates, and increased infrastructure spending.

→ NMC is offering LARA-compliant implicit bias training to learn how to recognize some of the common implicit biases that often lead to negative reactions and outcomes. Explore the effects this has on our society and connect it back to your own experiences and place of work.

Traverse Connect's upcoming in-person and virtual events.

November 17 from 8:00 - 9:00 a.m.

Thursdays in November

December 13 from 2:30 - 5:30 p.m.

"If we’re not telling our story, someone else will, and it isn’t bragging if it is true." CEO & President of Michigan Economic Development Corporation, Quentin Messer, remarked on northern Michigan's natural and economic assets at the Annual Economic Summit.
"There are a lot of wonderful Michigan truths; let’s share them with the world. Let’s get it!"

November 16, 2022

Develop Your Leadership Skills with Community Leaders

Develop Your Leadership Skills
with Community Leaders