The Tulsa Regional Chamber’s HR Forum hit the road for its third and final gathering of the year. About 20 attendees participated Thursday in a bus tour providing a firsthand look at a George Kaiser Family Foundation initiative called InvestNorth. InvestNorth is a collaborative effort to drive transformational opportunities in historically Black, more»

A thought-intensive process that started in August and mobilized seven task forces that met a total of 21 times culminated Thursday at the Tulsa Regional Chamber’s OneVoice Regional Legislative Summit. Before about 225 people at Venue 918, collaborators and partners representing the OneVoice advocacy initiative settled on 30 legislative priorities more»

Close to 30 employers participated Monday in the Tulsa Regional Chamber’s first Workforce and Talent Council meeting at the Chamber offices. The Workforce and Talent Council, which will meet twice a year and next on Nov. 19, joins three other Chamber economic development councils: Manufacturers’ (which started in 2012), Aerospace (2020) and more»

The fact that Oklahoma’s marketing budget, at roughly $5.75 million, is about one-fifth the size of Arkansas’s doesn’t sit well with Oklahoma Lt. Gov. Matt Pinnell. “I’m getting really sick and tired of our legislature not moving on that,” Pinnell said Tuesday at the Tulsa Regional Chamber’s Leadership Retreat at more»

Tulsa Mayor G.T. Bynum’s address on Tuesday to a roomful of local business representatives was largely a 30-minute love letter to the Tulsa Regional Chamber and the way the nonprofit does its job. “Pretty much all the major achievements of which I am most proud that our community has been able to accomplish in the eight years that I’ve more»

The Tulsa Regional Chamber announced today the hiring of Kim Wilmes as senior vice president of economic development, effective Oct. 28. Wilmes will lead the Chamber’s economic development efforts through Tulsa’s Future, the Chamber-led public-private regional economic development partnership. A 22-year economic development veteran, she also more»

When national media coverage about Detroit’s money woes and public corruption scandals began to peak more than a decade ago, Detroit graphic designer Tommey Walker felt his city was being ambushed. So, he flipped the script in 2012, creating a “Detroit vs. Everybody” brand designed to help restore Motown’s identity. In December, more»

A glitch in a car’s instrument panel isn’t the easy fix it used to be. In 1970, the electronics system represented 5% of the vehicle’s total cost, said Glenn Stevens, executive director at MichAuto. That figure is expected to rise to 50% by 2030. “That’s mind-blowing,” Stevens said. Stevens addressed changes and more»