Over 8,000 connections and counting
Since 2019, the North Bay and District Chamber of Commerce's award-winning #FiftyTwoCoffees program has connected hundreds of people for thousands of meetings in our community.
About
It's a league for networking
When Megan Gebhart graduated college in 2011, she knew she couldn't resign herself to life at an aimless 9-to-5 job climbing the corporate ladder. So instead, she challenged herself to have a single cup of coffee with a different person every week for a year to see what lessons she could learn about life and careers. The experiment turned into a global exploration filled with serendipity and stories that Gebhart published as a book titled “52 Cups of Coffee” in 2014. The chronicles feature conversations with the Co-Founder of Apple Computer Steve Wozniak and thought leader Seth Godin to name a few.It was Gebhart’s journey that inspired this initiative among community members in the City of North Bay — but with a twist.
This league for networking took registrations and, in the first year of the program, scheduled eighty-four participants to meet each other in round robin fashion, one week at a time, for fifty-two weeks. Over two thousand meetings were assigned with the goal of providing participants the opportunity to generate new customers, ideas, partnerships, and perspectives on life.Nowadays, over one hundred participants register annually for either twenty-six or thirteen meeting assignments per year.Since 2019 #FiftyTwoCoffee has directly benefitted over 300 individuals and created over 8,000 connections. The continued success of this initiative is thanks to the dedication of its participants.
#FiftyTwoCoffees participants must be members in good standing of the North Bay and District Chamber of Commerce.
Contact
Grow your network
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