The CX offers programming designed to help the business professional enhance and fine tune their skills.

Professional Development
Focus on Business
Empowered Leader Series
Leadership Forum
Toastmasters
Marketing Roundtable

Professional Development Series

Hone your workplace skills. Area academics share updates on current best practices and innovations in business. Series sponsored by the Central Exchange Education Foundation.

Focus on Business Series

Developed with small and medium-sized business owners in mind, each program provides important business tactics sure to improve your process and profitability. Media partner: flourish! magazine. Series sponsored by the Central Exchange Education Foundation.

Empowered Leader Series:
Strategies for the 21^st Century Professional

Sponsored by the Bloch Executive MBA program at UMKC’s Bloch School of Business & Public Administration, this series provides a glimpse into some of the most important aspects of this nationally respected executive MBA program. It is designed to provide state-of-the-art information and strategies for women on how to overcome barriers in the workplace and excel in leadership positions.

The Leadership Forum

The Leadership Forum offers interactive meetings to resolve real life, real time leadership issues. Participants have leadership roles in organizations or are responsible for getting results through the efforts of others. Each month, participants select discussion topics or meet with guest speakers on specific issues.

Meets: 7:30 a.m., First Thursday of month / CX South
Facilitator: Donna Craig, Leadership Resources

Toastmasters

In a supportive environment, Central Exchange members learn to become more effective communicators by presenting prepared speeches, giving impromptu speeches and offering and receiving constructive evaluations.

Meets: 11:45 a.m., First Tuesdays of the month / CX Downtown. Fourth Tuesdays of month / CX South

Marketing Roundtable

If the day-to-day job of running your business gets in the way of making more money or bringing in more clients, the Marketing Roundtable will empower you to think outside the box. The group is designed for entrepreneurs, independent sales professionals, and independent commissioned contractors. So if you feel stuck in a marketing rut, aren’t sure if you have the right marketing mix, need to bounce some ideas or need accountability for your actions, the Marketing Roundtable will provide the support you need.

Meets: 7:30 a.m., first Wednesday of month / CX South
              8:00 a.m., fourth Thursday of month/Downtown
Facilitated by: Sherri Becker