Katy Thoma, President & CEO of the Chico Chamber interviews Anastacia Snyder, Executive Director of Catalyst Domestic Violence Services about their programs and services. Anastacia also talks about how COVID-19 affected those survivors sheltering in place and any safety planning strategies to keep their employees and businesses safe. The post Ep # …

Katy Thoma, President & CEO of the Chico Chamber interviews Tyler Smith, CEO & Partner of local company Matson & Isom Technology Consulting about the challenges of having a hybrid of staff working remote and staff in the office. MITCS also offers technology support and training through their ClearIT Partner Program. The post Ep # 40 – Matson and Is…

Katy Thoma, President & CEO of the Chico Chamber interviews Brad Azevedo, Executive Director, The Terraces of Chico our Chamber partner and senior living community here in Chico. Brad shares how The Terraces community and staff (the heroes) have had to adjust during the COVID-19 pandemic. The post Ep # 38 – The Terraces – A Zoom Audio Interview wit…

So, who releases a book during a pandemic? Owners of Chico, CA marketing and advertising agency Half a Bubble Out, Michael & Kathryn Redman! In fact, they mention that the timing of the release of their new book “Fulfilled” was actually GOOD timing because whether you are coming out of this COVID-19 pandemic needing to re-build your business, build…

Our City of Chico Assistant City Manager, Chris Constantin joined Katy Thoma for a one on one Zoom interview. Chris is the key City of Chico contact to assist businesses on the City’s behalf. The City considers every Chico business as essential which is why they are focusing on reducing COVID-19 exposure. We thank Chris for his time and hope you ta…

Chico Chamber President & CEO, Katy Thoma got to share a few moments with Dr. Gayle E. Hutchinson, President, of California State University Chico. In this podcast you will hear Gayle talk about Chico State’s Master Plan and the 3 priorities of their Strategic Plan: Equity, diversity and inclusion, Civic and Global Engagement and Resilient and Sust…

The Chico Chamber and City of Chico co-hosted the 2020 Business Summit & State of the City Address Friday, January 24, 2020. In this podcast you will hear the State of the City Address by Chico Mayor, Randall Stone Chico City Manager, Mark Orme and City of Chico Public Works Director, Brendan Ottoboni addressing sale tax measure, roads and housing,…

November was the last Leadership Luncheon of the year for our Chico Chamber Young Professionals Organization with featured speaker, Matt York Executive Director of OMPT, One Mobile Projector Per Trainer. Branching out of his other company Videomaker Inc. in 2008, Matt founded OMPT because of his genuine passion to make a difference in the developin…

As you can imagine being a Chief of Police leaves little time for sitting down. But our CEO & President Katy Thoma managed sit down with Chico Chief of Police Michael O’Brien to catch up on how his department is fairing and how the community is fairing post Camp Fire. He adds that in the future, the department will be implementing some additional t…

Kathryn & Michael Redman, owners of local business Half a Bubble Out & HABO Village were recent guest speakers at the May Chico Chamber YPO Leadership Luncheon. According to Kathryn and Michael, the primary job of any leader is to Empower & Protect. Empower – giving your staff everything they need to be successful. Protect – making sure there are n…