Jim Holcomb – President & CEO of the Michigan Chamber, is joined by Neil Bradley – Executive Vice President, Chief Policy Officer and Lead for Strategic Advocacy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, to discuss free enterprise, the threats it faces, and what the business community can and must do about it!

Wendy Block, Senior VP of Business Advocacy for the Michigan Chamber, is joined by Lauren Sheets Jarrell, VP and General Counsel for The American Tort Reform Association to discuss why Lansing was put on the list and what we need to do to make sure it never happens again. She’s the lead analysist and author of the group’s annual Judicial Hellholes report and where our state’s ranking came from.

Jim Holcomb, president and CEO of the Michigan Chamber, is joined by Hilary Crow, the VP for civics at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, to discuss civic engagement and the business case for supporting it — a very important issue as our country struggles with fundamental civics knowledge and we enter a fast and furious election year.

Bob Thomas, chief operating officer of the Michigan Chamber, leads the discussion of a special time of year and segment of industry that may be small in how they’re described, but one that truly makes a BIG impact every day: our state’s 900,000+ small businesses and National Small Business Month that kicked off May 1. We’re going to celebrate these diverse entrepreneurs and dive into the changing landscape and core growth strategies and activities that can help.

Joining him in the discussion are Kristi Tabor, advertising account executive for Scripps Local Media/Broadcasting Co. and Fox 47, and Krista Moon, president and owner of Ascend Business Growth.