IN-PERSON | CEO Series with Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce CEO Joe Reardon!

The CEO Series is back! Initially established in 2001, the CEO Series will allow members and guests to connect with Kansas City CEOs as they share their leadership journeys and walk away with insights from their business experience and the latest business trends. Whether you want to learn how to enhance your own personal and professional performance or simply just hear from the best in the business, you will not want to miss this!

Join us August 27th for lunch at Union Station, as we hear CEO, Joe Reardon. 

Joe Reardon, former Mayor/CEO of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas, is President and CEO of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, the area's oldest and only regional chamber of commerce. Reardon assumed his post on March 1, 2016.
 

• Currently serves on the KC2026 Executive Committee, the group of sports executives, government officials and civic representatives from across the region that delivered a strategic vision for securing the 2026 World Cup - the largest event in Kansas City history in collaboration with many key stakeholders, including proposed training sites, hotel partners and Fan Fest locations.
• Co-led the successful 'Better KCI' business-focused campaign for a new airport, speaking to more than 100 businesses and organizations.
• Convened the Public Safety Coalition of 15 business, civic, and interfaith organizations that work together to improve public safety outcomes; this included putting together 7 citywide community listening sessions for the Kansas City Police Chief search.
• Serves on the Board of Directors for the American Chamber of Commerce Executives, a group of 9,000 chamber of commerce executives leading more than 1,300 chambers, tourism bureaus, and economic development agencies nationwide.
• Organized the Chamber's August 2019 Governors Summit where Missouri Governor Mike Parson and Kansas Governor Laura Kelly signed a Memorandum of Understanding which formally ended the economic incentive border war between their two states, a longtime priority issue for the Chamber and regional leaders.
• Established new Chamber initiatives focusing on workforce development, supporting small businesses, inclusive prosperity, crime and violence, and diversity and inclusion.

• Reardon developed a seamless regional transit system by negotiating and implementing strategic partnerships to manage service in Johnson County and Independence.
• Successfully negotiated and entered into a Cooperative Agreement with Jackson County to acquire the 17-mile Rock Island Rail Corridor for future public and transit use.
• Developed the first of its kind public/private partnership to deploy Bridj, an app-based micro-transit system in Kansas City. He also currently serves on the Kansas Early Childhood Education taskforce, appointed by Governor Laura Kelly.