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During this time, we have taken steps to make sure everyone is comfortable and safe while adhering to social distancing practices. Many individuals made tonight possible by thinking creatively and rolling with the punches. With that, we are proud to welcome ya’ll to the virtual Future 15 & Young Professional Awards. Thank you for being here and we are excited to celebrate the outstanding talent in this community.

OPENING REMARKS Mallory Nash, program manager, Current Young Professionals EMCEE Kia Murray, news anchor, reporter, Fox 11 WELCOME Presenting sponsor: The Donald J. Schneider MBA Program at St. Norbert College Remarks by Brenda Busch, associate director of graduate recruitment, and Dr. Daniel Heiser, dean, The Donald J. Schneider MBA Program at St. Norbert College MEET THE 2021 YOUNG PROFESSIONAL OF THE YEAR FINALISTS Presented by Emily Donegan, HR business partner, KBX Logistics MEET THE 2021 YOUNG ENTREPRENUER OF THE YEAR FINALISTS Presented by Trish Wirth, personal banker, Nicolet National Bank MEET THE 2021 NEXT GENERATION BEST PLACE TO WORK FINALISTS Presented by Krista Makos, organization development advisor, PAi Retirement Services CLOSING REMARKS Mallory Nash, program manager, Current Young Professionals JUDGES & SCREENERS - Natalie Bomstad, Wello - Brenda Busch, St. Norbert College - Jenene Calloway, Schreiber Foods - Rashad Cobb, Greater Green Bay Community Foundation - Emily Donegan, KBX Logistics - Kasha Huntowski, Neville Public Museum Foundation - Tanessa Klug, Edward Jones - Barbara Koldos, Hoffman Planning, Design & Construction, Inc. - Jenna Krawze, PAi Retirement Services - Kathryn Kroll, Green Bay Community Church

- Kelsey Lutzow, Community Living Solutions - Taylor Pierce,Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2019-2020 - Darin Schumacher, OSMS - Orthopedic & Sports Medicine Specialists - Kristina Shelton, State Representative to the 90th Assembly District, WI State Legislature - Brehanna Skaletski, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Wisconsin - Maddy Szymanski, Lucky 7, CP - Dan Terrio, Capital Credit Union

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DESSERT

MALLORY NASH Current Young Professionals program manager, Greater Green Bay Chamber To say it’s been a wild year would be an understatement.

Yet through it all, our young professionals continue to make an impact on the Greater Green Bay community. Their grit, passion and energy are contagious and inspiring. This evening celebrates 23 finalists and the significant accomplishments their efforts have contributed to making this community such a special place. It is an honor to welcome y’all to tonight’s awards. Despite being physically distant, it is my hope that tonight we will experience connection, gratitude and encouragement. Congratulations to all the finalists, each of you are more than deserving of this recognition.

LAURIE RADKE President and CEO, Greater Green Bay Chamber This is always an exciting time of the year, and this year even more than others.

I am honored to welcome you to Current Young Professionals’ Future 15 & Young Professional Awards.As you know, the young professionals in our community make a significant impact on our workplaces and overall community every day. During the past 11 months, I have seen their resilience, leadership and commitment to the community and to each other. I hope the stories of their achievements, goals, passions and purpose resonate with you and inspire you in your own personal and professional growth. Congratulations to all our nominees and honorees as they are the future of Greater Green Bay!

THANK YOU TO OUR SUSTAINING PARTNERS

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- Aardvark Wine Lounge - Ahnapee Brewery - Anduzzi’s Sports Club - Audrey Thomas Photography - Badger State Brewery Company - Bark & Brew - Board & Brush - Captain’s Walk Winery - Carnivore Meat Company - Cheryl’s Healthy Pet Food Market - CYP Ambassadors - Dave & Buster’s - Definitely De Pere - Dirt Juicery - Doth Brewery - Downtown Green Bay - Duck Creek Vineyard & Winery - Get Air Trampoline Park - Greater Green Bay Convention & Visitors Bureau - Green Bay Axe - Green Bay Booyah - Green Bay Botanical Garden - Green Bay Escape - Green Bay Floral & Greenhouse - Green Bay Gamblers Hockey Club - Green Bay Packers - Hotel Northland - Julie M. Gile Photography

CurrentWeek is a week-long celebration for young professionals to explore and engage with the Greater Green Bay community.

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- Kimp’s Hardware - LedgeStone Vineyards - Lindeman’s Cleaning - Lion’s Mouth Bookstore - Lox, Stock & Bagel - Mackinaws Grill & Spirits - Makos Furniture & Design - Margarita’s - Matco Tools - NeighborWorks - Neville Public Museum - NEW Zoo & Adventure Park - Noble Roots - PDQ Manufacturing - Pizza Ranch - RP Photography - Schreiber Foods - Seroogy’s Chocolates - St. Brendan’s Inn - The Exchange - The Foxy Pedaler - The Turn - Tie the Knot Bridal Boutique, LLC - Toast & Co - Vandervest Harley-Davidson - Van’s Heating & Cooling - Von Stiehl Winery - Western Racquet & Fitness Club

For event details and registration, visit greatergbc.org/currentweek.

Current Young Professionals is a program of the Greater Green Bay Chamber that works to engage, develop and retain young talent in Greater Green Bay. Current provides an opportunity for individuals to participate in professional development, social networking and community engagement opportunities within Greater Green Bay. Current created the Young Professional Awards in 2007 as a way to honor those who advance our mission by profiling best practices that could be adopted by other local individuals and organizations. Additionally, Current sought to recognize area young professionals in our community who are achieving noteworthy accomplishments and contributing to the overall quality of life in Greater Green Bay. All finalists are recognized and recipients awarded on night of Future 15 & Young Professional Awards.

FUTURE 15

Future 15 annually profiles 15 area young professionals who are growing and excelling in their respective fields. These individuals are currently influencing the growth, prosperity and quality of life in Greater Green Bay and demonstrate the ability to positively impact the area in the future through professional accomplishments and community involvement.

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Young Professional of the Year is selected from the pool of Future 15 recipients. This honor is presented to an individual with a demonstrated commitment to Greater Green Bay through civic and business involvement, especially during the past year. The individual will possess values consistent with those of Current, including an unwavering responsibility to the community through involvement with local organizations that elevate the overall quality of life in Greater Green Bay and our ability to attract and retain young talent.

This award is presented to a local business owner who exemplifies and holds true a commitment to Greater Green Bay through their demonstrated business entrepreneurial accomplishments.

Consideration includes but goes beyond financial success by evaluating the individual’s positive impact on the community as an entrepreneur.

This award is presented to a business that demonstrates a commitment to the development of young professionals, adapts work-life friendly policies, values generational differences and institutes attraction and retention initiatives for young talent.

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FUTURE 15 RECIPIENT

Ashley Bethke

Community engagement program officer, Greater Green Bay Community Foundation Community engagement is much more than a job title for Ashley Bethke. It’s part of her DNA. As a board member of COMSA, a nonprofit serving immigrant and refugee communities, Bethke has led the development of accounting practices and financial management and has supported the organization’s strategic planning process and continued board development.

In summer 2020, she was voted to the board of the Green Bay Curling Club during a time that required facing challenges that a pandemic presents to an indoor winter sport. She serves as co-chair of the Current Young Professionals’ social engagement committee— designing and facilitating strategic planning to identify a purpose statement aligned with Current’s mission to measure impact and share Current’s story.

Bethke designed and helped build the new bouldering cave at GBASO, where she volunteers in providing a safe area for youth to engage in action sports, education and mentorship. She also coaches soccer with Wisconsin United - De Pere and volunteers with Team River Runner and Baird Creek Mountain Bikers.

“My goal is to ensure that our community is socially connected in a way where diverse groups with different experiences work together to identify their common values and diverse needs,” she said.

The varied community service work follows a varied career that began with work as a high school German teacher, college soccer coach and sports management lecturer in La Crosse. With her move to Green Bay, she led community initiatives to support local schools with career education programs, including redesigning and launching a new career expo model with 1,500 eighth-grade students, expanding to 3,600 students in the second year.That work is now a model the Madison area has replicated, and the Ford Motor Company has explored implementation in Michigan schools.

Bethke shifted her community collaboration into working with local nonprofits when she joined

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the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation in 2018. In her role, she has improved processes and communications, including simplifying the process for nonprofits to apply for funding, access resources and share the impact of their work. She leads the Foundation’s work in leveraging technology to improve processes and build efficiencies, as well as works with committees for collective impact efforts in the region with Achieve Brown County and the Poverty Outcomes Improvement Network Team. She also led the formation of a Current Young Professionals and Give BIG Green Bay partnership beginning in 2019.

“My employer continuously explores new ways to grow the good in our community, and I have been able to lead and support this effort in many ways,” she said, noting that the landscape of philanthropy is changing as younger generations strive to be more connected to their giving. “My goal has been to take engagement to a deeper level by getting to know the organization and their work from personal experience, and to create content that our communications team can use to engage younger generations.”

Bethke does this work in the most hands-on way.

In the past year, this has included learning resiliency through skateboarding, mentoring girls in woodworking and kayaking with veterans.

Bethke directs her board involvement and volunteer time to smaller organizations doing impactful work addressing service gaps in the community. She values roles on working boards, where board members have more than an advisory role and contribute as volunteer staff learning more deeply about the community served.

“I believe by engaging in this work and collaborating, we will not only be a diverse, equitable and inclusive community at leadership levels, but also across all corners of the community,” she said.

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Bryan J. Carr

Associate professor, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay

After several years in broadcasting, Bryan J. Carr now works to create a community that is media literate and critical of the information surrounding us.

As an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (UWGB), Carr teaches topics ranging from game studies to radio broadcasting to mass media advertising. As part of UWGB’s Center for Games and Interactive Media, he is helping to develop revolutionary interdisciplinary curriculum and outward-facing media channels based on video games and its surrounding culture.

Through collaboration with the Brown County Public Library to produce community-oriented programming, he has helped create live podcast recordings and event programming as a part of their Comic-Con® event.

“I delivered a talk on podcast production aimed at encouraging local citizens to have their voices heard in the medium, in addition to podcast recordings on topics like diversity, feminism and psychology,” Carr said.

Carr also strives to build a more equitable community that is representative of its diversity. He’s currently working on two books regarding issues of race, gender, representation and transmedia depictions of popular comic book superheroes are scheduled to be published by 2022.

Carr has already published a textbook, eight book chapters, eight conference presentations and six book and media reviews in the last five years and produces a regular column on the UWGB multimedia blog.

He has written, edited, produced and hosted a 37-episode pop culture podcast and has produced and edited a student success podcast.

His work has not gone unnoticed. He has earned multiple institutional research grants, been awarded the 2020 Pride Center Lavender Faculty Leadership Award and 2018 Student-Nominated Teaching Award and received a fellowship to study the scholarship of teaching and learning and develop original research on gamification in the classroom.

For three years, he hosted video game tournaments and family activities at an annual holiday event to coordinate fundraising for the HSHS St. Vincent Children’s Hospital Child Life Program. The events funded the purchase of more gifts, electronics and other beneficial items for pediatric patients and their families during lengthy hospital stays.

Carr serves as the advisor for the Black Student Union at UWGB, helping to develop programming, communication and outreach efforts, and serves as a liaison between the students and university faculty and administrators. He advises about 60 students with class scheduling and career goals and provides guidance to students and new colleagues.

“I view these roles as an opportunity to use my experience and position to help others carve out a role for themselves and grow into their new identities and responsibilities, paying forward the guidance and kindness my own mentors and advocates showed me,” he said.

Citing a key goal as increasing the connection between the university and the Greater Green Bay community, Carr states: “I feel too often that universities and academics cordon themselves off from the public and write and communicate primarily with each other. Green Bay is a dynamic, growing community benefitting from increasing diversity and technological and industry innovation.”

Carr noted that his five-year plan includes investing his time and resources into outreach, using both new technologies and traditional teaching to expand access to knowledge and education.

“I want to find ways to open the doors and allow the public the chance to learn new ideas regardless of their finances, time, and resources,” he said.

“That means more presentations, virtual ‘field trips,’ certificates, service-learning efforts and other activities that mutually benefit both the academy and our local population.

“Information is the future, and that future should be accessible to all.”

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Diana Delbecchi

Community schools resource coordinator, Green Bay Area Public School District Having worked at a refugee camp in Greece while pursuing a graduate degree abroad, Diana Delbecchi then created the United ReSisters—a result of tireless work for the immigrant and refugee communities in Greater Green Bay. As founder of the United ReSisters, Delbecchi wrote a grant to fund a book written and published by a group of young women who shared their stories of strength and survival. The group served as cultural ambassadors, giving talks throughout the area on their experiences, using their book as a tool to educate the community and help build bridges. Delbecchi and the United ReSisters are focused on forming a better community for female immigrants and refugees.

Delbecchi has championed increased access to college for first-generation, undocumented and refugee students during her seven years in higher education.

She founded an access-to-education project in 2010 that supported 15 Preble High School students with college scholarships. She is continuing to work in K-12 education with a new strategy focused on building bridges between the community and our schools in an effort to uplift students.

“My passion is for education, and I believe this work starts with our schools,” she said about the ongoing championing of diversity in the community. “I want students across Green Bay to have access to books that represent them, books that tell their stories and books that uplift different voices.”

Delbecchi noted that culturally responsive curriculum can improve literacy and writing scores, increase family engagement in schools, raise high school graduations rates and open doors for children in the community to become the next generation of leaders. She has seen her role as an opportunity to advocate for the work and build community support for the initiatives across our schools.

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Delbecchi earned a master’s degree in human rights in 2016, having studied the right to education for undocumented youth in America. She attended the 64th session of the Convention on Elimination of Discrimination Against Women in Geneva, served as a contributing author to the 2018 book “Journey to Refuge: Understanding the Refugee, Exploring Trauma, and Best Practices for Newcomers and Schools,” was the 2018 keynote speaker for an event and book discussion where she presented her experience serving in a refugee camp and was selected to attend the 2018 summer institute at York University on forced migration and refugee rights. She has participated in a series of speaking engagements across Wisconsin, educating people on the refugee crisis in Greece, sharing her time serving refugees in a youth camp and fundraising for organizations that serve refugees.

Delbecchi received the 2020 Outstanding Recent Alumni Award from the University of WisconsinGreen Bay for her work abroad and locally. She served on the United Way impact initiative committee, focused on funding place-based initiatives to strengthen four Green Bay neighborhoods, designed and ran a summer youth program for more than 40 refugees through COMSA with a focus on mentorship and leadership training and served as an election inspector for the 2020 presidential election. She has also mentored youth from COMSA and United ReSisters, helping young leaders discover their passions and build a plan to achieve their dreams.

She has a plan to continue to embrace and celebrate the growing diversity in the community.

“In the last three years, Green Bay has grown a lot, but I know we have further to go,” she said. “Our community is more diverse now than ever before and I want Green Bay to be a home that celebrates and keeps that diversity.”

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Cassandra Erickson Green Bay Rights for All organizer, American Civil Liberties Union

From empowering disenfranchised voters to mobilizing the next generation around climate action, Cassandra Erickson is just getting started.

Erickson was elected to the Brown County Board of Supervisors in spring and earned endorsements from the Wisconsin Conservation Voters, the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) and the Citizen Action of Wisconsin.

Support from environmental groups comes as Erickson, founder of a local environment charity of grassroots community service, hosted river and beach cleanups during all four seasons, advocated for sustainable community planting projects and supported eco-tourism and state park exploration.

She has also led responsible waste management efforts at community events, like the Green Bay Farmers Market; Erickson organized three relief trips to Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria, which included beach cleanups, reforestation, construction of urban gardens and wildlife rehabilitation. She currently serves as the Brown County chair of the Wisconsin Conservation Congress to assist the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and other governing bodies in responsibly managing the environment and future of wildlife. Her diligence has earned her the River Alliance of Wisconsin’s 2018 Water Hero Award for environmental achievements.

That focus on the environment, however, is not a singular focus. Erickson has organized Green Bay Rights for All, a part of a statewide network to re-engage disenfranchised voters in the electoral process.

“By developing volunteer teams and advancing the leadership of people most impacted, I work to increase direct engagement between citizens and elected officials through nonpartisan, issue-based advocacy, as well as provide important information and resources so all eligible voters may successfully exercise their right to vote,” she said, commenting on her unwavering commitment to community service, which is just one aspect of the work.

“In my role as a trained legal observer, I have the responsibility to document and defend our constitutional rights in a way that is as objective as possible so [that] any evidence of misconduct or obstruction can be challenged justly in court,” she said.

When the pandemic hit and a safer-at-home order was put in place, Erickson assisted Operation Community Cares with assembling and delivering food, hygiene products and other basic needs items to families who were out of work or had tested positive for COVID-19, as well as assisting as a creative consultant in expanding social media promotion and website design. The nonprofit made more than 1,000 home deliveries.

As a former director of a children’s entertainment company, Erickson managed a team that appeared at community events and fundraisers, such as the MakeA-Wish Foundation’s Walk for Wishes, March of Dimes’ March for Babies and the 10th annual Down Syndrome Awareness Walk.

“I trained and employed a cast of performers equipped with the great responsibility to inspire magic in the lives of all children and family members of our community, no matter class nor background, while giving special consideration to those battling terminal illnesses,” she explained. “Through this work, I will forever be humbled by the beauty and resilience of the human spirit.”

Erickson has called herself a goal-oriented citizen who is committed to giving back and engaging others to do the same.

“Our community is our common ground, and it is not a democracy without everyone,” she said. “It is both my hope and our collective responsibility to overcome division by promoting a more thoughtful and engaging public discourse.”

Erickson expressed that encouraging everyone to explore public policy analysis and identify solutions to local civil liberty issues are key to establishing a culture around productive politics and civic engagement.

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Meredith Hansen

Campus education and prevention project manager, St. Norbert College

Meredith Hansen has devoted her career to improving the quality of life in this community.

Serving as the resource specialist for the Aging & Disability Resource Center, Hansen created resources and contributed to the Brown County United Way 211 database. Through a creative collaboration writing curriculum for local medical students, her team was the first in the state to conduct the course onsite at the nonprofit.

Hansen now manages a federal grant for St. Norbert College with an aim of improving campus culture by eliminating gender-based violence She obtained a master of Business Administration to better understand how business acumen could improve a nonprofit organization. A former member of Phi Kappa Phi with a 4.0 GPA in the program, she took the initiative to conduct a qualitative research thesis with two dozen local interviews to analyze how for-profits and nonprofits could be unique in their social responsibility to make sizable changes. Hansen indicated that using this framework to connect forprofits and nonprofits for sustainable change will move the needle on poverty, homelessness, transportation issues, economic growth and healthy living.

She was named a 2019 Brown County United Way Outstanding Emerging Leader for her contributions to the community, served on the Beyond Health Taskforce for seven years as part of the core team to launch a county mental health resource database and develop the Food Drive 5, an initiative to stock food pantries with healthy foods. A member of Wello’s Farmers’ Market EBT Double Your Bucks implementation grant team, she helped to bring FoodShare benefits to local farmers’ markets. With the Aging Network of Greater Green Bay steering committee, she helped bring professionals together for education and networking.

She has participated in POINT, a multi-county level effort to reduce poverty in Northeast Wisconsin, and co-developed, wrote, hosted and produced videos for Brown County NEWEye TV station. She has also

conducted multiple projects through her training in LEAN process and design thinking.

Hansen has volunteered at Happily Ever After Animal Sanctuary for the past seven years, assisting with fundraising events and caring for animals. Chair of the United Way’s Emerging Leaders Society, she has led community service activities and long-term projects dedicated to serving youth; diversity, equity, and inclusion; and the United Way Neighborhood initiatives, including mentoring at Elmore Elementary School. Part of Current Young Professionals’ YPAC committee, she connected young professionals to local advocacy efforts, government officials and community projects. Previously a member of the United Way Impact Council, she has assisted in the grant award process, gaining knowledge of community resources.

Having served as a full-time caregiver for more than a decade for four family members, Hansen gained intimate knowledge of end-of-life needs and considers those to be strong life lessons she carries with her now in both her personal and professional life.

Her priorities for the community have included seizing opportunities to engage people of color at all levels, such as board members and organizational leaders, in order to be representative of the community in a way that makes others feel welcome and respected.

“We need to inspire the young generations of the majority minority in our school systems, making it our mission to help all community members find their passions locally, keeping their incredible brain power in Northeast Wisconsin,” she said.

Green Bay is her home and Hansen is dedicated to giving back to a community that has given so much to her.

“If we instill this sense of dedication amongst all community members and harness their skills, we can grow and flourish into the community we aspire to be,” she said.

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Marissa Heim

Grants and outreach manager, Golden House, Inc.

Marissa Heim was satisfied with her work serving homeless young adults; it fed her passion to help others.

However, she knew she could do more.

Now, as a grant writer and outreach manager at Golden House, a domestic abuse program and shelter serving families and individuals, she has started new, innovative programming for young adults focused on relationships. She has brought multiple programs to middle and high schools and all local colleges, including a growing national program. She has created new partnerships, identified gaps in service and focused on targeted youth groups for increased impact. This included providing weekly inperson support to youth such as teen parents and those incarcerated in the juvenile justice system. She has increased grant revenue by more than $500,000 by seeking new opportunities that hadn’t previously been considered. She has continued to ensure community programming continues to grow.

She still has a belief that she can do more.

Heim, a first-generation college graduate, earned her master’s degree and is the only one in Brown County who is a certified family life educator (CFLE) through the National Council on Family Relations.

She served on the exam-writing committee, has been published in their magazine and was recognized for her work through the National Council. As a Level 3 trained CFLE through The Gottman Institute with an educator certification from One Love, a national relationship education program, she has been invited to speak nationally due to the success of the One Love Foundation programming in Brown County.

After obtaining her undergraduate degree, Heim served in the AmeriCorps at Habitat for Humanity ReStore, a reuse store that serves as a funding arm of the local Habitat for Humanity organization. In college, she volunteered and interned with a number of social service agencies, including the humane society, 12 | 2021 Future 15 & Young Professional Awards

health and human services department and the local high school. Other roles have included providing her input and expertise through committee involvement, including on the Coordinated Community Response committee for domestic violence and sexual assault.

Heim has started one of the three domestic violence high-risk teams in the state that connects key community partners in the goal of meeting victims’ needs and supporting them throughout the court process. She has supported future certified family life educators through regular meetings and feedback, providing grant-writing support, making community connections and working with them to ensure their clients’ needs are met.

Heim has been nominated for the Women of Strength recognition and said she does not believe a work title defines a person—that everyone can learn from each other. She and her family have been active in the community, though adding to the family and encountering COVID-19 barriers have led them to engage less in person.

Each year has brought a new professional goal that Heim has been able to set up and knock down time and again. In 2019, it was through her work to bring the programs One Love, Coaching Boys into Men and Athletes as Leaders to youth in the community and work on creating healthy relationships with youth in the juvenile detention facility. In 2020, creating and running a domestic violence high-risk team contributed to her goals of better supporting victims of crime.

While 2021 goals will address gaps in children’s mental health therapy, future goals include increasing access to affordable childcare, breaking down barriers to employment, improving housing accessibility and more—goals that will not only impact individual lives, but will leave a lasting, positive impact on the community.

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Chelsea Kocken

Director of sales and marketing, Thornberry Creek at Oneida

There are many ways to give back to the community and Chelsea Kocken has encouraged many individuals to find their passion.

“I will always express my feelings to everyone that I can about how important it is to be involved in the community however they feel comfortable,” she expressed. “If it is mentoring youth, caring for animals, getting involved in politics or anything else, being involved makes a difference.”

Being involved in the community, Kocken has served in different roles with a variety of organizations over the years.

With more than six years volunteering with local veteran’s organization 4th H.O.O.A.H., including as a board member, Kocken has played an important role in fundraising, event planning, marketing and community engagement and fundraising thousands of dollars for the organization while building relationships among veterans, civilians and businesses.

She has helped bring together dozens of neighbors through event planning, fundraising, newsletter creation and creative contests as a board member for her neighborhood association, helping to ground herself in the community as well. She has also served as vice president of the John Muir Park Neighborhood Association.

“This is the community that I will be raising my children in, and I feel very strongly about being connected to the people who live here,” she commented. “I have helped to create many lasting relationships by bringing people together, whether it be encouraging them to attend an event, volunteer for an organization or support a cause.”

Professionally, her impact has been just as critical to building bridges and cultivating community. While with On Broadway, Inc., she helped spur the growth of the downtown district by hosting more than 60 events annually, many of which she created. One standout event brought more than 20,000 people into

the downtown area, produced sales for vendors and local businesses and showcased an underutilized park.

Her efforts received recognition for creativity and community impact, including Best Special Event awards from Wisconsin Main Street three years in a row and Best Public/Private Partnership in 2018.

“In total, the events I directed brought more than 250,000 people to the downtown district annually,” she said. “These events created a sense of community and showcased and celebrated small businesses year-round.”

As director of sales and marketing at Thornberry Creek at Oneida, Kocken has created 10 new events, which have attracted hundreds of people, generating new revenue, customers and initiatives. She has also begun creating new marketing and sales strategies.

She traced her community commitment back to mentors who helped her realize the importance of giving back, helped her to build the confidence that led to successful event planning and creation and spurred her to volunteer. She has been recognized multiple times for more than 500 volunteer hours in one year at the same organization.

Kocken has a plan to continue her work with local organizations by volunteering her time and talent and connecting them to opportunities for participation in events and initiatives she is engaged in. Overall, she has expressed an interest in helping others grow their own community and awareness.

“I will continue to do everything I can to help bring creative new events to life that can bring people together and keep our community buzzing,” she said.

Kocken has sought opportunities to mentor and lead others in servant leadership, focusing on selfreflection, continuous improvement and helping others grow personally and professionally. Her goals have led her to complete a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership, a path she chose to pursue because of the importance of supporting others.

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Joshua Kohnhorst Wealth operations associate, Nicolet National Bank

A strong work ethic and a servant leadership mindset have guided Joshua Kohnhorst throughout his career and influenced his community service and personal accomplishments.

Preferring to let his work speak for itself and achieve goals behind the scenes, Kohnhorst’s leadership and innovative achievements have been recognized by his employer and community alike.

In his role as a loan processor, he saw the need for creating efficiencies while leading the training program for new loan officers. He created a program to help determine the documentation needed for loan support; his simplified checklist clarified the loan officer process for meeting with customers. During his previous role leading a team of 20 at Festival Foods, his team helped the company create inventory management efficiencies that increased margin and profit and reduced the amount of product that expired before it was sold.

His work ethic has helped him stand out as a highpotential leader and led to a promotion as department manager before age 25 at his previous employment.

He has also been promoted to his current position as a member of the Nicolet National Bank wealth management team.

Having earned the Spirit of Current award, his work has been recognized for going above and beyond in volunteering. He has contributed hundreds of volunteer hours through three organizations, including leading members as the chair of Current Young Professionals’ ambassador committee which is responsible for welcoming new members, engaging local employers and retaining talent from local universities. He became a member of the executive committee of his alma mater’s alumni association, leading a team of six to boost the alumni role in recruiting the next generation of students. Before moving, he served on the Ashwaubenon public works and protection committee for three years, ensuring

ordinances were enforced for higher quality of life in the village.

Kohnhorst has acknowledged that the community has learned and grown in 2020; his five-year action plan would build on those changes by focusing on financial literacy and positivity in society.

“This year challenged even the soundest financial plans. This year taught us that rainy days will come, and we should be prepared the best we can for that rainy day,” Kohnhorst said, noting that his industry offers people the opportunity to build spending plans, evaluate savings and reduce overall debt load. “I plan on creating an awareness of the existing public resources while also volunteering time to help others with the items mentioned above so everyone can be adequately prepared for the unknown.”

Just as important is the community’s issues around negativity and divisiveness. Kohnhorst has a plan to create a webinar series showcasing the good happening in the greater Green Bay area.

“We as a society have so much to be grateful for, and we need to show it,” he said.

That belief stemmed from the principles of servant leadership, which Kohnhorst said transformed the way he leads and interacts with people. He learned about servant leadership from his mentors, including the chairman of the grocery stores and his student government association advisor, where he served three terms as student government president. The advisor helped him navigate challenging times in his first true leadership role and taught him the basic principles of being prompt with work, building relationships with others and working through others to get things done, establishing a solid foundation for his professional career today.

“It taught me to value relationships with others and to understand we are here to serve their needs and not your own,” he said.

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Billy Korinko

Director of the Cassandra Voss Center, St. Norbert College

Billy Korinko has spent his career creating spaces for complex conversations around social issues.

Korinko has engaged thousands of people in challenging, dominant narratives about race, gender and sexuality and initiated discussions on racism, sexism and homophobia to create more equitable relationships. When George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was killed in Minneapolis in May, Korinko helped assemble a team of educators who engaged nearly 100 of this colleagues in weekly conversations over two months around being more actively anti-racist. It encouraged honest and hard conversations regarding racism and equipped participants with the skills and tools to confront injustice.

“This work has demanded that I model having a teachable spirit, an openness to discomfort and an ability to push up against ‘Midwest nice’ – which often leads people to avoid difficult conversations,” he said, noting that he has an ability to create partnerships between educational institutions, community organizations and corporate partners to engage people in these difficult conversations. “I believe that this work needs to be grounded in powerful relationships for it to have the greatest impact, and that belief has provided me a consistent focus for my work.”

In 2020, Korinko completed his doctorate in gender and women’s studies from the University of Kentucky.

He is director of the Cassandra Voss Center at St. Norbert College, which identifies its mission as promoting and facilitating critical conversations and creating spaces in which genuine dialogue can thrive.

He has been recognized for both his research and teaching, including receiving the University of Kentucky Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Korinko credits strong mentors with many of his career successes.

“I have been the beneficiary of some of the greatest mentors one could ever hope for,” he said, pointing to

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one mentor in particular who, over the past 15 years, has become one of the most important relationships in his life.

“My mentor is someone who recognizes my gifts but also always challenges me to grow and expand my professional skill set. I have learned so much from this mentor, and they have been so instrumental in shaping my professional skill set.”

That relationship has led Korinko himself to support others and taught him how to mentor those who can use that support in their lives.

“In my role as a mentor, I too work to celebrate my mentee’s strengths, but I also work to build trust where I can help people recognize where they may have areas of growth,” he explained. “Mentorship is a central aspect of my professional career, and so many of my successes throughout my career are the direct result of having incredibly strong mentors.”

Korinko has coordinated domestic violence prevention trainings for local organizations and is helping others build diversity within their boards.

In the past year, he has led an eclectic cross-section of individuals in the Greater Green Bay area to support both nonprofit and for-profit organizations in expanding the diversity of their boards, helping the group identify systematic barriers toward board engagement in an effort to build long-term strength in the organizations.

“Over the next five years, I want to help the Greater Green Bay area become a radically more inclusive space,” he stated. “I want to do this by creating spaces where people have complex conversations about issues related to identity – and I will do this in the only way I know how: by meeting people where they are, creating a welcoming environment and grounding work in the best and most engaging scholarship.

“I believe this work is personally transformative and is critical to the future of our region.”

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Bradley LaPierre

Production manager, Infinity Machine and Engineering Corp.

Brad LaPierre tracks his current role as production manager at Infinity Machine and Engineering Corp. back to his Greater Green Bay Chamber Youth Apprenticeship program involvement as a West De Pere High School student.

A mechanical design job placement in a tool and die department at Krueger International (KI) led to his interest in pursuing a position within the engineering department at Infinity after graduation.

Early days as a design assistant were punctuated by experience in each department of the company and two years as a mechanical engineer while pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Stout.

After receiving his degree, LaPierre was promoted to project coordinator for five years. He then pursued an Master of Business Administration (MBA) from St. Norbert College. After graduating Magna Cum Laude in 2018, he was promoted to production manager and now leads around 85 people from all assembly departments, as well as the machine shop, fabrication and paint operations.

His impact on the company was felt early. Starting at age of 18, he was one of about 30 employees and was instrumental in managing the company’s exponential growth year after year, helping to bring the company to its current employment of 185 people. As project coordinator, he managed and maintained the schedules of all project aspects in the organization. Transitioning to the project manager role added recruitment and management responsibilities for assembly, machine shop and paint employees while the main facility expanded twice and added two local locations.

LaPierre considers the owner and president of the company to be a mentor who encouraged his education and investment in himself. His mentor has modeled servant leadership and putting others above the organization and himself, which are qualities LaPierre emulates in his role as mentor to new team leaders.

“As [he] has done for me, I have modeled servant leadership, showing them that this can be the single most important factor in the relationships that you build with the team you are leading,” he said.

LaPierre has not forgotten those early Youth Apprenticeship roots and serves as primary contact for high school students hoping to pursue a career in engineering or the trades. He works with principals, teachers, school counselors and other stakeholders to determine appropriate placements for students and provide mentorship as they acclimate to the work environment. He serves as a member of the West De Pere School District strategic planning committee.

He also intends to pursue involvement and potential leadership opportunities in the Trades Career Academy in the two De Pere school districts.

Prior to his MBA, he had also served as assistant chairman of the Northeast Wisconsin Ducks Unlimited chapter for four years, each year recruiting members and donors to the main banquets that raise funding to rebuild habitats and protect wildlife in Wisconsin, including projects for the bay of Green Bay. LaPierre intends to build a stronger community and workplace through continued servant leadership, including cultivating the potential of individuals in his organization through community resources, such as programs and certificates at Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and St. Norbert College.

“Growing the company in an important manufacturing industry in the Greater Green Bay area will improve our community by adding new well-paying jobs for people,” LaPierre said, noting that his goal is increasing the diversity of the workforce.

“This includes increasing the cultural diversity of our workforce and recruiting more female engineers and production workers to our organizations.”

LaPierre plans to partner with local school districts on internship opportunities and experiences for students interested in a career in the trades.

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Joshua Loritz

Senior community relations coordinator, Familia Dental

Joshua Loritz has dictated his professional goals to “how can I make the world a better place?”

Having started as regional director for an organization targeting poverty reduction at the policy level—a volunteer position that facilitated the exchange of ideas and strategies between students and young professionals across the nation—Loritz lobbied local Congressional leaders to include critical poverty reduction legislation in their agendas. Since he started his role as community relations coordinator in the healthcare industry, he has become a resource in bridging the underserved population with a muchneeded service. Loritz has been working with stateinsured and underinsured individuals and families, providing education, information and opportunities for those in need of access to healthcare options.

In regards to his work, Loritz has received the Chancellor’s Leadership Medallion Award from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay for his outstanding engagement and contribution, completed a professional internship as a political affairs ambassador and raised funds for The Borgen Project, a global poverty organization.

Fluent in Spanish, Loritz has engaged actively with the Greater Green Bay Hispanic community and is involved in several community organizations, including the Housing and Homeless Coalition, Family and Childcare Resource Center of Brown County, Forward Service Corporation and the local Catholic Charities chapter. He has supported monthly diaper drives and worked to expand membership and distribution of informational materials while cultivating other important community partnerships through his platform.

Loritz has become a mentor to a departmental team of six, which has given him the opportunity to promote values and lessons instilled in him by his own mentors, including one he worked with during his undergraduate studies. Loritz had consistently felt challenged through his coursework and learned

qualities he believed made him the professional and active community member that he is today. He has stated that leadership, humility, initiative, knowledge and collaboration are key qualities—as well as the importance of civic engagement and using these qualities to rise to become a pillar of the community.

“The qualities [my mentor] instilled within me allow for me to utilize my current position to lead by example and assist my team in giving back to their own communities,” he said.

Loritz has served as coordinator of the Network of Human Services Coalition, which is a network of more than 50 nonprofit organizations, private businesses and other entities devoted to creating a connection of support for the underserved community of Greater Green Bay. He has also become a member of the Hispanic Inter-Agency Coalition, its mission being to serve the local Hispanic population and increase resources for the community.

“Green Bay is an incredible city with a rich history.

One of the oldest cities in the United States, it has grown to become a safe and comfortable place for families to prosper and grow,” he said. “One aspect of this city I would like to improve is its approach to diversity.”

As the Hispanic population grows to become the community’s second-largest demographic group, Loritz has recognized the opportunity to bridge and integrate growing minority communities with the rest of Green Bay, particularly through continued engagement and education as a primary tool. Loritz has a plan to continue his own education and to continuously improve as a professional and a leader.

He has looked to lead the creation of a new coalition of human service organizations that are being planned, as well as facilitate a resource pool for minority populations of Greater Green Bay and allow for the exchange of new ideas and strategies embracing the community’s growing diversity.

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Cathryn Siolka

Human resources generalist, KerberRose

With a career in talent recruitment, Cathryn Siolka has recognized the importance of providing the community resources needed to retain talent and the opportunities needed to attract it.

Her role managing campus recruiting for several KerberRose office locations was challenged during the pandemic when campus events transitioned to virtual platforms. The challenge forced Siolka to adjust her presentations to a virtual setting, expand marketing of the company through social media platforms and engage with students through more proactive communication.

Through her efforts, which included inviting students to see “a day in the life” of the company in one-on-one Microsoft Teams meetings, all internship positions were filled one month early during the pandemic.

Siolka also oversees benefits enrollment and maintains personnel relationships within KerberRose.

She and colleagues have been working on improving staff onboarding functions, including creating new hire checklists for proactive communications, an extensive onboarding guide for new hires and training videos for self-study, improving overall department communication and providing a more welcoming environment.

After completing her Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in human resource management and graduating Summa Cum Laude, Siolka completed her Society of Human Resource Management Certified Professional certification, which designates her as an expert in the field. For two years in a row, she accepted St. Norbert College’s William E. Dargan Fellowship Award, a recognition awarded to a few business professional students annually.

Siolka’s community involvement has included serving as president of St. Norbert College’s Colleges Against Cancer group for planning events, managing financials and fundraising efforts and mentoring other team members. Volunteering regularly at Zion Lutheran Church, she has contributed to Operation Shoebox, chili dinners and Christmas services. In Current Young Professionals, she has been a Community Partnerships Committee member, Support of Urban Projects (SOUP) captain, Give BIG Green Bay partnership co-

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captain and has mentored new members. She serves on the board of Junior Achievement, where she helps plan events, reviews finances, recruits volunteers and assists with the Business Challenge in the classroom.

She also created and maintained the Bonduel Wrestling Club website.

A highlight of her community service was serving as a buddy to a pre-kindergarten class at Syble Hopp School, spending a few hours a week with the children at recess and during projects.

“This opportunity taught me patience and to be an active listener,” she said. “I learned to be a follower in conversations and let them lead.”

She has also benefited from her own mentors and appreciates being challenged to broaden her approach to her work.

Siolka has served as treasurer of the Wisconsin Society of Human Resource Management at the collegiate level and is a programming co-chair for the state conference in 2021, helping to manage registration, event logistics and other behind-the-scenes details.

Her role as a recruiter has given her a unique perspective on attracting and retaining talent. “It is important to create a community that is ever-growing and evolving,” she said, noting that a first step is increasing mobility for the community through viable transportation options including mass transportation and improvement or creation of walking and biking paths.

Siolka has stated that attracting new businesses will allow the community to continue to create jobs and provide greater economic support. She expressed the potential to provide broader career opportunities with a greater variety of businesses for those who wish to move to, or stay in, the area.

“Finally, the community should continue innovative programs to engage community members,” she said.

“Continue connecting nonprofits with local businesses in fundraising and support efforts and host volunteer fairs for community members to learn of local service options.”

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Cameron Teske

Visitor center director, Greater Green Bay Convention & Visitors Bureau It was Cameron Teske’s personal passion for travel that led him to a career in the tourism and hospitality industry.

After creating unforgettable memories for guests at the “happiest place on earth,” he explained he tries to bring the same magic and enthusiasm to promoting greater Green Bay as a destination.

Teske is overseeing a project to create a visitor center, having already raised $4 million, which is expected to welcome six million annual visitors to the Greater Green Bay area.

“This will be a place to tell our community story and promote many small businesses vital to Green Bay,” he said.

His work in the tourism industry has led him testify before Wisconsin State Senate and Assembly committees to secure funding and support for Northeast Wisconsin. He has been recognized by a leading international tourism organization as one of 30 up-and-coming tourism professionals worldwide under the age of 30.

In October, a major publisher printed Teske’s proposed book on Green Bay’s brewing history when an editor reached out after reading his article on current Green Bay breweries. “I was able to bring to life on the pages some forgotten, yet formative, local historical characters dating back to the 1850s through today who have helped make Green Bay what it is,” Teske remarked.

Much of his community work stems from personal experience. After Teske’s wife lost a two-year battle with breast cancer, he made it his mission to help defeat the disease. He participated in the American Cancer Society’s Real Men Wear Pink fundraiser, an initiative to engage men in the cause that he considers a personal way to fight back. He has also taken up advocacy for donating blood.

“Something I learned while watching my wife battle breast cancer was how much blood her medical teams

put back into her,” he said. “Her life, along with millions of other people fighting for theirs, was and is reliant on blood donations.”

For his part,Teske has organized two blood drives in Green Bay and championed family and friends outside the area to donate as well.

“I received dozens of messages from across the country of first-time donors who just needed a reason,” he stated.

As a firm believer that a person is the average of the five people they spend the most time with, Teske intentionally surrounds himself with people who display traits and characteristics he wants to embody.

“One of the biggest ways I’ve grown has been because of a variety of people I look up to for their wisdom, their leadership, their success and, overall, who they are as a person,” he said. “I strive to be that to someone else as well.”

Teske wants to see continued local investment in attracting and retaining talent of all backgrounds and beliefs, making diversity a priority to add culture to the community.

“It brings new ideas, gives a community character and allows all people to feel a sense of belonging within the community,” Teske said, crediting tourism with encouraging a community’s welcoming nature. “It’s the right thing to do for the community. All people belong in our community.”

“As a tourism professional and a lover of travel and people, my favorite quote is from Mark Twain: ‘Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness,’” he said. “We all must travel more, experience new places and meet new people. When we return to our communities, we each will be better for it, ultimately creating a better community and place to work, live and play for all.”

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Katie Trulley

Academic advisor, Northeast Wisconsin Technical College

Having a list of achievements and the recognition to show for it, Katie Trulley has built her career around creating and maintaining inclusive communities that allow people to feel safe, respected and inspired.

Being an academic advisor for more than 600 students each year and through other related initiatives, she has primarily been focused on supporting students and colleagues. She has served as part of a core grant project team that implemented a coaching model that accomplished a culture shift in the way more than 400 student-facing staff members work with students and each other.

Trulley has been the co-chair of the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College’s (NWTC) diversity team where she helped to foster grassroots organizational change and engage senior leadership to spur systemic change. She was integral in developing a student campus climate survey and facilitated NWTC’s 40hour staff diversity, equity and inclusion professional development series. She has been a continuous contributor to the student diversity leadership training series and has said that she has consistently used her privilege and influence to promote diversity, equity and inclusion efforts in an education setting.

Trulley has co-led an institution-wide partnership that implements developmental coaching for students and led a cross-functional team reviewing and planning process for student retention, enrollment and onboarding. She has regularly presented at national and regional professional conferences on topics including academic advising best practices, change management, coaching, leadership development and diversity, equity and inclusion. She coordinated with colleges and universities to provide clear pathways of transition for students, helping to enhance their experience by developing academic and student services-focused relationships across the nation.

“I love my job and feel fortunate to have the opportunity to help students transform their lives through education,” Trulley said.

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Beyond professional work, she expanded her efforts of creating a sense of belonging to the larger community, including serving on the De Pere strategic visioning/branding steering committee responsible for modernizing the city’s marketing and branding initiatives, sharing best practices in diversity, equity and inclusion with a community partner diversity and inclusion group of local businesses and educators and joining the YWCA Greater Green Bay board of directors to support the mission of eliminating racism and empowering women.

“In 2019, I became chair of the community service committee at the YWCA and lead the group as we have refined the focus of the stand against racism series by elevating the sometimes-taboo topics that are hard for our community to address but necessary for us to grow,” she said.

Trulley has continually reflected back on and agreed with the answer that author, professor, feminist and social activist bell hooks gave when asked what a community should focus on in order to achieve excellence: Everything.

“Green Bay is a wonderful place to live, but we have a lot to work on. We need to tackle issues including racism, homelessness, climate change and talent retention,” Trulley explained. “No one person can or should be responsible for addressing all of these things.

Rather, it will take the entire community: all ages, all backgrounds, all perspectives.”

Trulley has indicated that she sees herself continuing and building upon the impact she has already made in the community.

“The only answer I have is that I will keep showing up and playing to my strengths,” she said. “I will keep on leveraging community resources and connections.

I will continue to engage and promote vulnerable, authentic communication. I will continue to engage and build relationships in our community both at work and by being my curious, extroverted, problemsolving self.”

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Kim Westover

Graphics and brand management, Belmark, Inc.

With her position at Belmark, Inc., Kim Westover has had the opportunity to support the community, though the desire has been in her all along.

Westover has noted that one highlight of her community service with Belmark included launching and maintaining a fundraising golf outing for Donate Life Wisconsin, an organization that advocates for organ, tissue and eye donation. She had coordinated teams, collected donations, secured sponsorships and designed a day that, over two in-person events and one virtual event, raised more than $230,000 for the organization. Westover was appointed chair of the committee and has established relationships with vendors and partners that created a network of giving and connected people for supporting and sponsoring future community giving events and fundraisers.

Having a history of volunteering time and resources, Westover has been given a platform through her industry and employer to serve and improve the community. Improving the life of the youth in our community through mentorship, board service and fundraising efforts has long been one of her priorities.

A member of the board of directors of Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Wisconsin, she has helped navigate the safe and successful promotion and execution of programs and activities in a virtual landscape through the marketing and programs committee. Her committee role focused on diversity, equity and inclusion within the organization which will help ensure those principles remain an integral part of the local Big Brothers Big Sisters’ values and mission. This work has come during a time of focused efforts to lead the organization through complex financial issues in a pandemic since fundraising events have been canceled and needs are increasing.

Westover’s involvement with local youth has included mentoring in the Brown County PALS Program, which supports abused and neglected youth in Greater Green Bay. Westover mentored a 13-yearold girl with a history of neglect. Both experienced

new perspectives, whether they were shooting hoops, biking, going for ice cream or participating in other everyday experiences.

“I had a great childhood growing up and had two parents that showed me nothing short of support and love at that young of an age,” Westover said, noting that their time together left an impression that she remains grateful for. “She thinks she learned a lot from me, but I learned just as much, if not more from her.”

She has also led a Boys & Girls Club of Greater Green Bay program for students of Danz Elementary School, providing lessons on finances, budgeting and planning for the future. Through the program, she helped teams of young students develop their own businesses and navigate a weekly budget with hypothetical money management situations.

Through connecting with local Asian-Americans, she has begun work toward using the group’s platform and network to help bring opportunities to other AsianAmericans starting careers and taking leadership roles within the Greater Green Bay community.

Though recent events have limited Westover’s usual personal, hands-on involvement in serving the community, she has continued to step up in numerous ways and find the opportunities to give back. From shopping and sourcing local businesses to keep money in the community to preparing to safely dive back into the physical volunteering opportunities to host events and lead efforts to raise proceeds, Westover’s continued goal is to give.

At Belmark, Westover has helped customers maintain the integrity of their brand.

“My employer is extremely active and generous when it comes to community giving,” she said.

“Because of that generosity, I have the opportunity to volunteer for various committees and events and am able to support the community.”

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Dr. Sadey Broecker CEO and family chiropractor, Lux Life Chiropractic

Dr. Sadey Broecker has known a key to her early success as an entrepreneur was her hunger.

When she moved back to De Pere and opened Lux Life Chiropractic in 2019, she was hungry to succeed and that hunger propelled action.

“I know that my success as an entrepreneur was single-handedly earned through doing uncomfortable things,” she said. That included inviting fellow business owners to coffee 10 to 15 times a week, cold calling businesses, maximizing social media and creating content through video posts, emails and ads. She joined the Greater Green Bay Chamber, local Rising Tide chapter and a De Pere women’s networking group and attended Definitely De Pere meetups and events.

“Basically, I was just everywhere, all of the time,” she said. “I have always said, ‘Do the work,’ so that’s what I did, and it continues to pay off almost 18 months later!”

As she developed her business, she continued to modify her work, including specializing in pediatric, prenatal and family care and providing consistent, weekly wellness care for continual prevention and education rather than reaction to problems. She has seen her business as an opportunity to provide education and knowledge about health to the community while empowering families with resources.

Dr. Broecker has received both Webster and Torque Release Technique certifications and earned Epic Pediatrics’ 2018 Best Associate Doctor Award and 2019 Top Startup Entrepreneur Award. Within six months of Lux Life’s opening, it was awarded second place in Best of the Bay 2020 among 88 other chiropractors. She was an alumni speaker at Palmer College’s pediatric symposium in 2019 and she has continued to lead workshops and webinars for fellow pediatric chiropractors, speaking and engaging with chiropractic students nationwide and offering students shadowing opportunities in her office.

Dr. Broecker’s own career began with a dream associateship position in the office where she interned. She spent three years gaining experience, leadership and knowledge before returning to the area. Her vision included a standalone practice in De Pere where she can provide care, host educational workshops and create community connections.

Dr. Broecker has hopes to help the community grow both through her business and by investing in other entrepreneurs. Her vision for the future of Greater Green Bay is one of advancement, growth and opportunity. Her work has directly impacted the economic prosperity and growth of the area through its support of the wellness of its people; a person’s health impacts job performance, family relationships and community connections.

“A community is only as well as the people that make it up, and I believe that if each member is as healthy as possible, the health of our community as a whole improves,” Dr. Broecker said.

Dr. Broecker noted that her chiropractic work is about more than back pain and headaches. She has supported children on the spectrum, struggling with ADHD, ADD, anxiety and sensory challenges, as well as infants with colic, constipation and poor sleep habits.

She supported mothers during pregnancy and after birth and offered advocacy and education to parents concerned about the health of their children. She provided solutions for adults with anxiety, hormonal issues, digestive problems and low energy levels.

“My team and I get to experience miracles and be a part of incredible stories of healing every single day,” she said. “By improving the health and wellness of the individuals and families that make up this community, we are simultaneously improving their quality of life on all fronts.

“I believe that this is paramount in regard to the success, growth and connection of our community and the future of Greater Green Bay.”

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Trevor Folker

Owner/Founder and lead clinician, MVMT Performance & Rehabilitation

Trevor Folker’s business model for cash-based performance physical therapy and athletic training was the most effective way he could help people.

“It allows me to work with them one-on-one for a full hour, spend time to build a relationship, get to know them, hear their story, and treat them and their individual injury as such – an individual, not just a number,” he explained.

Insurance issues can prevent people from getting the care they need. Through this model, he has helped people learn to move more efficiently, become stronger and take care of themselves, be pain free and enjoy what they want to do. His plan charges a single rate with weekly visits that he said puts them on the road to recovery more quickly than traditional treatment.

The model allows people to take control of their health and learn to trust healthcare providers.

“It’s not your average seven-minute doctor’s visit and take these pills,” he said. “I want people to know that I can help them without the meds, injections and surgeries. It’s proven to be possible.”

Folker began his career as a high school athletic trainer before getting his master’s degree in applied exercise science while working as an assistant athletic trainer at Concordia University. He opened MVMT Performance & Rehabilitation in May 2019.

Key to his work is listening; that includes patient feedback through testimonials, referrals and followup communications.

The business has built relationships with gyms and their members, as Folker helped people learn how to move better and take care of themselves. This included providing free workshops on technique and sharing exercises daily on his social media accounts.

He has written three e-books, shares materials on his

website and posts to his blog on specific injuries with tips and tricks for recovery.

“I am very passionate about using the body to heal itself, and I fully believe that if you can give people more mobility, more stability, more strength and teach them how to move more efficiently, you can eliminate their pain for good,” he stated, noting that he doesn’t focus only on the symptoms, but treats the whole person.

Folker has an understanding about the movement needed for optimal functionality and can break the movements down and rebuild them.

“If I see someone with back pain, I understand that the issue probably isn’t at the back; that’s just where the pain is,” he said.

Folker is proud of the ways in which he has adapted to challenges inherent in opening a new business, especially with the added concerns of COVID-19. He has worked hard to provide a service that is superior to larger settings and to make local connections that help him benefit the community.

“The whole reason I pursued the degrees I did was to help people live their life as healthy as possible as long as possible and to complete the activities they love without concerns about an injury,” he said.

In the next five years, he’d like to see his wife, a physical therapist who shares his vision for patient care, join his business and see MVMT add staff and increase their space. In the meantime, his focus will remain on individual client care—listening to patients’ needs, connecting with them and building a plan that incorporates their input.

“I truly listen and hear them, and that’s because I can spend the time doing so, and that time is invaluable,” he said. “It’s hard to trust a new healthcare provider. I try to make it as easy as possible.”

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Julie Gile

President/CEO, Julie M. Gile Photography

When Julie Gile began making client connection her true goal rather than focusing on finances, her business began to flourish.

With an hour-long strategy session before each shoot, increased session times to make clients more comfortable, client engagement through all touchpoints and back-end business tasks outsourced locally, Gile gained the opportunity to prioritize people and nurtured the relationships that led to growth.

“Genuine connection can’t happen in a 30-minute photoshoot, so I stopped doing them. Generic images don’t represent a brand story, so I stopped doing them. Busy images are noisy, so I stopped creating them,” she explained. “When I really stepped back and decided what kind of photographs I wanted to create, I knew I needed a different approach.”

This meant quality over quantity; better versus bigger. Without a connection, photos lack the authenticity needed for visual marketing content to resonate with an audience. Through a detailed brand strategy call, the current branding is reviewed with the client, drilling into the passion behind the brand and eliminating the noisy, busy and generic images that can’t be digested by the brain fast enough to hold a viewer’s attention. This is part of the psychology behind visual imagery.

“My storytelling images are organized, contain a ‘hero’ subject to hold attention and minimize any distractions around the edges,” she said. “All this by design to maximize the ability to make connections through unique and potent visual imagery.”

When Gile moved to Green Bay three years ago, she discovered a unique energy that small businesses bring to the community, such as a widowed mother who started a gluten-free restaurant to an art company that spreads joy in honor of a mother’s late daughter. She has defined her role as highlighting, through strategic visual marketing, audience connections that rise above what box stores can deliver.

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“My company shines a light on these small businesses, telling their stories of passion and purpose fueling our economy,” she said.

At first, online hype around scaling up, creating sales funnels and putting automation between her and clients created short-term gains but less personal investment.

When she realized she wasn’t loving her work, she took a step back, leading to her reconnection with people over spreadsheets.

“Never losing sight in the value of making people feel heard is key to bringing our local businesses front and center,” she said. “My plan is to continue building connections in support of local brand stories from small grieving ‘mom-preneurs’ to larger corporate businesses—all equally important to the energy of Green Bay.” Gile leaned into collaborative partnerships, considering local business products, services, spaces and people when preparing for a photoshoot. She provided exposure to two local bakeries when she engaged them in a product styling for a tea company, showcasing seasonal treats. With a project showcasing the National Railroad Museum’s wedding event space, she enlisted local vendors for elements, from floral details to décor rental and wardrobe.

“This massive promotional opportunity was shared between businesses to help everyone create and share content, boosting engagement and developing relationships,” she said, her vision for the community including downtown Green Bay districts bustling with business, socialization and laughter.

“Each business would stand out based on their own story, and instead of competing against each other, they would thrive off the collective energy Green Bay has to offer,” she said, citing the potential for local businesses to thrive over national chains through authentic connections. “These are the stories I communicate through visual marketing and will continue to move forward on this mission as our city rejuvenates.”

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Katrina Magnuson Owner and winemaker, LedgeStone Vineyards

For Katrina Magnuson, business ownership is not an individual endeavor. It’s a way to collaborate with other entrepreneurs, champion their work and foster an environment of success for everyone.

In this, Magnuson has built LedgeStone Vineyards into a place of community, connection and friendship.

Magnuson saw an opportunity in her professional impact to support Wisconsin grape growers, showcase local musicians and provide a service platform for food trucks and more.

“In the last century, building small businesses, supporting entrepreneurs and embracing the elements of community have been the building blocks of my career,” she said.

Her career began with running a small winery, then serving as the small business representative of the Business Improvement District development in the famed RINO district of Denver. Providing avenues for small businesses to thrive remained the core of her development when she moved to the Greater Green Bay area.

“I felt there was an opportunity to connect the community through creative business, talented musicians and hard-working folks to the area,” she said.

The vineyard hosts live music several times a week and hosts snowshoe events during the winter months, embracing what each season has to offer. She started First Friday Markets in 2018 to highlight what she considered the best of the industry with more than 2,000 guests of the vineyard market exposed to live music, food and custom pottery.

“At our business, we were able to highlight not only what we believe in, but what we believed in our community and those around us,” she explained. “We were a direct impact to the growth of others, and we adore them as much as they admire us.”

Magnuson has contributed to numerous local organizations and been involved in Wrightstown

community events, outreach campaigns to Wrightstown/Greenleaf school programs and other committees. She and the organizations have supported drives and foundations through 91.1 The Avenue and partnered with local businesses to donate to Send a Smile gift packages during the pandemic.

Through LedgeStone Vineyards, she offered the community an escape.

“The experience at our business is captivating,” she said. “We create a connection to the land, the Wisconsin roots and the pure joy we get, as owners, making the wine.”

Magnuson has trained staff to take customers on a journey; to help them experience the new and the comfortable, learn about the process and leave the tasting room with greater insight.

“When you take a seat at the winery, you are put outside of your comfort zone on purpose,” she said, with a future plan to continue the vineyard’s impact.

“Five years is quite a ways away; we could change the world by then, but really, I’m looking to make sure that each little part is appreciated.”

She has considered Green Bay an inspiration in the development of the business.

“I’m only a part in the larger picture of businesses coming together to build an image that supports the community’s vision,” she said. “We are about family, quality time, the expression of outdoors and the ability to embrace the seasons.”

Businesses like LedgeStone Vineyards help to foster hard work and appreciation of all customers.

“I’m in a unique position that nearly every customer through the door is one we can talk with. Someone we can learn a bit about their path and perhaps make an impact in that journey,” she said. “If I can be a part of the positivity in their life, with a splash of wine or a story of other businesses to embrace, I believe Green Bay is off to better things.”

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Rachael Phillips Family portrait photographer, RP Photography

Rachael Phillips started her photography business when she became an aunt several years ago.

“When I held my hours-old baby niece in the hospital, my heart was so full,” she said. “I knew I wanted to provide my sister with high-quality images of her little human because kids grow so quickly.”

Phillips was working full time at a nonprofit, enjoying family photography on the side. When her position was cut, she made the transition to pursuing photography as a career, starting with basic equipment and family images outdoors.

By investing in education, equipment and editing software and remodeling a building into her studio, she took things to the next level. Phillips had to learn how to safely pose newborns, get genuine smiles from children and expand into photographing high school seniors and professional headshots.

“I try to go above and beyond for my clients by helping them coordinate their wardrobe for the session, make them feel relaxed in front of the camera, and take care of their printing needs for them,” she said.

Phillips explained that she connects with clients through a phone conversation that reveals the client’s vision, followed by a complimentary in-home consultation that allows Phillips to meet the family, discuss wardrobe and measure wall space in order to recommend print sizes. She then gives clients a prep guide and family outfit guide, and she prepares poses and prompts for genuine smiles and heartwarming interactions—and fruit snacks or dog treats for potential bribes.

At the in-studio viewing, clients review a slideshow of their images over wine and snacks and make their selections.

“I love seeing clients’ images turned into artwork to display in their homes,” she said, adding that she

does the packaging and home delivers the order with a thank you gift. “I believe this is especially helpful to busy parents who may not have time to go print their images or new mothers who are home on maternity leave. While they’re snuggling their new baby, I am printing and delivering their images for them so they can get those photos up on the wall instead of letting them sit on a USB in their junk drawer.”

A business’ goal is to retain existing clients, engage new ones and increase revenue each year. Phillips said her future goals include emerging as an elite, full-service luxury photographer, potentially with a high-end studio downtown and assistant support.

Her work would include more contributions to local nonprofits, including donated photo sessions.

Phillips photographed more than 100 families for the Front Steps Project, a nationwide initiative during the pandemic to connect people when they couldn’t physically be together. Spurred to offer her services after seeing a Facebook post regarding their needs during quarantine, her efforts raised $2,000 for Freedom House and were featured through WBAYTV2 and WHCY radio, published in Reader’s Digest magazine and highlighted on the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation’s website. She partnered with The Children’s Museum of Green Bay to offer introductory photography workshops to children and their families and has engaged in partnerships with other local nonprofits, as well as offering discounted or free headshots to low-income individuals for employment needs.

“I like to encourage people to succeed and contribute to our society in a positive way,” she said.

RP Photography has grown each year, with 2020 marking the best yet.

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NEXT GENERATION BEST PLACE TO WORK FINALIST “Family first” is a core value of American Tent. This principle has fostered a culture of trust and respect as the provider of commercial, party, event, and custom tents.

With flexible scheduling and an overall understanding that office staff will get the job done when it works for them, American Tent has been able to accommodate a variety of lifestyle demands, such as working moms handling virtual schooling on their own, remote workers, and time off for hunting or pursuing other passions. Recognizing that not everyone can be available on an 8-5 schedule, American Tent trusts team members to make scheduling decisions that work for them and their families.

With this culture of trust, employees know they can ask for help when personal challenges arise so that no one is navigating a difficult situation alone or sacrificing career for home life. It’s one of the ways the company works within the unique generational differences among the team.

Leadership staff range in age from 22- to 72-yearsold. They appreciate the learnings that run the gamut of generations. All team members have a growth mindset, unafraid to learn new things. Some employees offer wisdom and experience and have strong management skills while others learn, integrate and innovate the ideas they’ve learned from their mentors.

American Tent’s focus is to do what’s best for the team and the company at every point, including being committed to celebrating healthy lifestyles and diversity, providing better-than-average pay and benefits, as well as incorporating environmentallyfriendly ways.

No one is pushed beyond their comfort zone unnecessarily at American Tent. Recognizing that everyone learns and takes in information differently, no matter their age, American Tent says its processes live both in the cloud and on the bulletin board.

Young employees choose American Tent because its leader can breathe success into them and the future of the company. He is a visionary who allows all employees to “find their perfect seat at the conference table” and ensures that if an employee is unhappy in their current role, they will work together to create a better one. The company has a youthful progressive culture and strives to ensure employees of all backgrounds feel safe and comfortable, are happy, and can succeed.

This mindset is part of American Tent’s investment in “right position, right person.” American Tent communicates expectations and culture clearly, giving employees the resources needed to be successful and investing in employees through coaching, education, training and more. It recognizes employees may not stay forever and celebrate those moving on in their careers, proud to be part of their foundation for success. Furthermore, employees and management work together through performance issues and challenges.

American Tent’s commitment to its community is just as strong. The company ties its involvement to causes that are meaningful to employees and uses surveys to learn more about interests and passions.

In the past year, the company has participated in Miles for Matches with Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northeast Wisconsin, sponsored the nonprofit’s Golf for Kids’ Sake and joined Greater Green Bay Chamber initiatives, including participation in YPAC, the annual Leaders’ Lunch and Leadership Green Bay. American Tent also engaged in efforts to get out the vote, joining Civic Alliance and partnering with Coalition of Voting Organizations Brown County to register employees to vote. It is in the midst of developing a partnership program with local schools to help teens learn on-thejob manufacturing skills.

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NEXT GENERATION BEST PLACE TO WORK FINALIST KerberRose strives to be a positive influence and a helping hand in the communities it serves, both as a firm that is active in its community and a workplace that encourages community involvement with its team members.

From paid volunteer time to charitable event support, sponsorship and participation, the certified public accounting firm and its staff devote time and energy to nonprofits, chambers of commerce, schools, youth activities, clubs and Rotary groups. The firm hosts Recycle Fests, supports the United Way and is involved in organizations, including B.A.B.E.S., Inc., the Child Abuse Prevention Program, Junior Achievement, Give Kids the World, local churches and schools, fire stations and other extracurricular activities.

Beyond supporting the community, KerberRose believes in supporting employees and their families as well, with a strong people first mentality. They provide flexible scheduling with the opportunity to work remotely, as well as an Employee Assistance Program that supports team members and their families. Long before the pandemic, KerberRose allowed team members to arrange their schedules to best meet their needs, encouraged flexible time off for appointments and family needs and supported remote working that was preferred or fit better with personal and family schedules.

KerberRose offers a wide variety of benefits to support team members and their families, including those aligned to health and wellness as well as personal and professional development. The health and wellness offerings give all team members access to discounted fitness technology, financial incentives for wellness programs and mental and physical health support including gym memberships, fitness classes and weight loss or smoking cessation programs.

Continued development is core to the work KerberRose does daily and provides development opportunities both in and outside of the firm.

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committees, attend conferences and trainings and focus on professional development. KerberRose has an inclusive mentorship program open to all team members. In the past year, the company paired more than 60 team members across the 40+ year generational span of their staff to provide them with training and additional mentorship opportunities.

KerberRose has a set hierarchy of job roles paired with a competency model and review opportunities are held three times during the year in order to provide feedback and assess skills and job duties.

These conversations help team members align their goals to the strategic plan of the organization, provide feedback to their leaders and assess why team members stay with the firm. A wide variety of learning opportunities are provided to staff including targeted local office trainings and monthly “Lunch and Learns,” giving team members a deeper dive into niche expertise areas across the firm.

Other benefits, incentives and programs are geared toward attracting and retaining young talent.

This includes a student loan repayment program, continuing education at no or discounted costs, paid professional education and memberships, certification organizations and continued learning for the career field. The company provides a discount of 20% on undergraduate courses and 10% on graduate courses through Lakeland University. The firm also provides interest-free loans for study materials, pays all sitting fees for select certification exams and awards bonuses for completion of select designations emphasize the importance of obtaining certification within the profession.

KerberRose is passionate about the work they do for their clients and their communities. They believe in nurturing that passion through a culture that encourages and supports personal and professional development and work/life balance. The firm takes pride in their commitment to the local communities they serve and are proud to be a trusted advisor.

NEXT GENERATION BEST PLACE TO WORK FINALIST Core values of integrity, compassion, relationships and performance guide UnitedHealthcare in its mission to help people live healthier lives and make the health system work better for everyone.

The company fosters a workplace culture that values diversity, integrates employees with local, national, and international engagement, builds community and sets employees up for success. These priorities are on display through numerous initiatives and actions.

At UnitedHealthcare, cultural ambassadors help break down barriers by creating events and offering opportunities to connect in different environments, across positions and tenure.

An intranet site provides access to an Inclusion and Diversity Learning System, which provides resources on diversity, intergenerational collaboration and bridging gaps in relationships. The managed healthcare company’s Inclusion and Diversity Council published a sustainability report to showcase diversity at various levels and the commitment to ensuring a diverse leadership group.

A mentorship program encourages interaction on interests, goals, areas of strength and opportunity, and an annual Campus Talent Summit provides scholarships to diverse students pursuing health careers.

For its access to opportunities, UnitedHealthcare has been recognized by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation as one of the best workplaces for LGBTQ equality and was included on job site WayUp’s list of Top 100 internship programs. In 2019, UnitedHealthcare invested $8.25 million in a five-year partnership with four historically black colleges and universities to develop a new data science initiative in Atlanta.

UnitedHealthcare believes that no one knows the community better than individuals who live and serve there; that belief has led to the organization putting a premium on social responsibility. Employees receive 16 paid hours per year to volunteer for a nonprofit of their choice. Then, after completing 30 hours of volunteer work, they can donate $500 on behalf of the company. The company provides a 1:1 match of

donations as well. Plus, UnitedHealthcare and the health and children’s foundation provide grants to local and national organizations, invests in affordable housing, makes in-kind donations, participates in disaster relief and volunteer time and resources to providing highquality affordable health care for everyone around the world.

Locally, on-site initiatives have included donating 1,535 cans of soup and additional funds to Paul’s Pantry.

With proceeds from a carnation sale, basket raffle and chili cook off doubled by the organization, more than $4,000 was donated to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. Drives for school supplies, fundraising for a local VFW and other groups and awareness efforts have contributed to strong community relationships. In 2019 employees held fundraisers that totaled $18,201 for ALZ/Longest day and $31,206 for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.

Support of health equity and healthy lifestyles extends to support of employees as well. The company provides a wide variety of benefits programs and professional supports for employees’ personal and professional lives, including access to on-site wellness support from a licensed physician’s assistant, registered dietitians, a fitness coach and a free 24/7 fitness center.

The Human Capital Team ensures the company’s messaging and initiatives help to align individuals with the company and set them on a path for success by providing resources and opportunities that allow them to continue their development or address gaps in experience. An app houses free e-learnings and videos that provide instruction on different skills and employees can shadow other positions to learn more about the company’s different roles—emphasizing the role communication plays in talent management.

The feedback goes both ways as the company conducts employee experience surveys twice a year and additional random surveys. The work is an effort to remain in-tune with employees’ needs and experiences in order to continue to attract and retain talent.

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