Mission: Provides policy leadership and expertise on health issues that affect West Virginia with the goal of improving health systems and health status of its citizens.

• Worked with our health industry partners to provide increased opportunities for preventative care, low-cost insurance options and a health information network.
• Urging the state’s congressional delegation to enact legislation that would allow association health care plans.

Mission: Recommends programs and policies to promote the state’s tourism industry.

• Co-funded an economic impact study by WVU on the state’s tourism industry.
• Works with the state Tourism Commission, the Tourism Office and the West Virginia Hospitality and Travel Association to help advance the needs of the state’s travel and hospitality industries.
• Supports added funding for tourism promotion efforts.
• Collaborates on ongoing improvements in the travel & tourism industry 

Mission: Identifies, educates, communicates and advocates issues while promoting a positive climate that is conducive to small business in West Virginia.

• Helped craft HB 2878 in 2015, the One Stop Shop Business Portal, which will help small businesses in West Virginia by requiring the Secretary of State’s office to develop an online portal to help businesses maintain compliance with state regulations, laws and taxes.
• Worked to pass SB 352 of 2015, which expands the definition of cooperative associations in West Virginia.

Mission: Diversity in the workplace is beneficial. People with different backgrounds bring different perspectives and create a more robust, stimulating, and vibrant environment from which everyone can learn and grow. The Diversity Working Group works to promote diversity in the workplace, which leads to higher-quality decisions and improved performance.

• Played a key role in successfully opposing the passage of a RFRA law in West Virginia.

Mission: Provides leadership to effect change in education policy and practice as desired by members of the West Virginia Chamber of Commerce.

• Was instrumental in the successful passage of 2013’s SB 359, the Governor’s education reform bill.
• Helped with the passage of HB 2005 in 2015, which provides a pathway for career professionals to enter the classroom in critical need areas and teach students in the absence of a traditionally certified teacher.
• Working with members of the Legislature to improve education outcomes in West Virginia with comprehensive reform that benefits all students.

Mission: Provides leadership and serves as a forum in promoting development of the state’s energy resources and energy technologies, and recommends realistic, sound and workable policies and programs through consensus of diverse energy interests.

• Provides a mechanism for a collaborative dialogue among all segments of the state’s energy industry.
• Works collaboratively with business leaders and groups to establish legislative priorities.
• Working with state agencies to develop a state energy policy/plan.
• Supported industry-led efforts to enact co-tenancy legislation, which takes advantage of the state’s vast natural gas resources.

Mission: Promotes policies that help ensure all West Virginians have access to high speed internet services.

• Works to ensure high-speed internet access for all West Virginians.
• Supported the successful efforts to allow the deployment of wireless small cells in the state.

Mission: Recommends programs to enhance state and local industrial and community development and advocates for a sound infrastructure throughout West Virginia.

• Supports efforts to attract investment and job creation to West Virginia.
• Advocates policies that will ensure West Virginia has solid infrastructure to support the 21st Century economy.’

Mission: Works to maintain fair and financially solvent Workers’ Compensation and Unemployment Compensation programs; monitors decisions affecting these programs; and advises Chamber members and the public of the effect these decisions have on economic development and jobs in West Virginia.

• Developed the model that was used to transfer the state’s Workers’ Compensation program from a state-run monopoly to a fully competitive, privatized enterprise.
• Enacted critical Workers’ Compensation reforms and a long-term funding plan that has resulted in a nearly 50 percent, on average, reduction in Workers’ Compensation premiums.
• Hosted a series of “Chamber Network” meetings and provided regular communications to state employers on Workers’ Compensation reforms and the privatization changes.

Mission: Educates Chamber members and advocates in appropriate venues the consensus interest of the general business community in the matters of state and local taxation.

• Facilitates detailed research and analysis among the state’s leading tax experts and practitioners.
• Prepared a comprehensive policy paper on important changes needed to modernize the state’s tax system and to improve the competitiveness of state businesses.
• Analyzes proposals on tax reform to help weigh that benefits and costs.

Mission: To inspire, educate and engage women in leadership roles while empowering a diverse community and strengthening a network of allies to champion their work.

• Spearheaded a mentorship program targeting high school and college students, nurturing the next generation of female leaders.
• Supports and advances philanthropic initiatives at the annual Women’s Leadership Summit, amplifying the impact of community outreach efforts.
• Played a pivotal role in workforce initiatives, including advocacy for the childcare tax credit bill, enabling employers to establish on-site childcare facilities and facilitating workforce participation.
• Empowers women in leadership through inspiration, education and engagement, fostering a diverse community of allies.

Mission:  The place for young professionals, entrepreneurs, adventurers and those interested in West Virginia’s future to collaborate and share ideas for a more thriving tomorrow.