Welcome to the 2026-2027 W.AC.E. Webinar Series! Designed specifically for chamber professionals, this upcoming series features interactive sessions tackling the most relevant challenges and opportunities facing our industry today. From maximizing your non-dues revenue and launching new advocacy toolkits to managing event risks, building community trust, and learning how to strategically scale back, these webinars are built to equip you and your team with actionable insights.
Webinar Pricing & Registration
Tier 2 and Tier 3 W.A.C.E. members receive the webinars at no cost, but must register to receive the login links. Tier 1 members receive a 50% discount from the general public price. (Unsure about which Tier is currently assigned to your Chamber? Click here to find out.)
Non-Members - Full Series (6 webinars): $600.00
Tier 1 Members - Full Series (6 webinars): $300.00
Tier 2 and 3 Members - Full Series (6 webinars): Included with membership (but you must register to receive login links)
Individual webinars can also be purchased ($75 for Tier 1 Members, $150 for Non-Members). Links to register/purchase individual webinars are included with their descriptions below.
Fall 2026
September 16th:Raise Your Revenue by 20%
Chambers are always searching for new revenue sources. Could your organization increase its financial comfort with a strong internal evaluation of new AND existing revenue strategies? With a series of moves – from right-pricing membership dues, trimming costs, offering more digital marketing investments, and expanding sponsorship opportunities – you might be able to improve that delta between income and expenses. If increasing your chamber’s profitability is a goal, and if you’re open to multiple strategies to get there, join us and make moves to strengthen your bottom line in 2027.
Presenters: Cathi Hight, President, Hight Performance Group Rich Millard, President & CEO, Royal Gorge Chamber Alliance
October 21st: Government Affairs Tool Kit – Getting Started on Advocacy
Chambers are looked to as trusted resources to get things done in their communities. Often that requires effectively partnering with, or influencing, elected officials and the professionals who work in our city, state, or federal agencies. If you haven't done that work, or are finding more frustration than results, there are some basic principles that can help. Over the past several months, WACE has partnered with ACCE to create a “Government Affairs 101” toolkit for chambers. If you have wanted to start or expand your advocacy efforts, but needed help getting started, this is for you.
November 18th:Risk Management – Are We Taking It Seriously?
Someone is over-served at your holiday event, then gets behind the wheel. Someone slips and falls at the golf tournament. A minor snatches a bottle of wine from your unsupervised beverage table. You’re transporting members in a rented van and there’s an accident. What risk management basics should chambers implement to mitigate the unpredictable situations that lead to loss, injury, and lawsuits?
March 17th: Building Trust and Partnerships with Communities of Color
We want to serve all sectors of our local business population, but it feels impossible to get participation and collaboration from our communities of color. We’ve tried to build programming, but it feels uncomfortably like “us” prescribing community and content for “them.” How do we bridge the chasm between communities of color and the chamber? In this session, we’ll discuss where to start, collaboration and co-creation over prescription, trust building as the foundation, and creating a leadership opportunity where ideas can grow organically.
Presenter:
Qy-Darrius McEachern, CEO, The Interconnected Group
April 21st: But Did You Have Fun? Putting the Chills and Thrills Back into Events
Events can be exhausting to plan – so much so that we forget to pay attention to the fun factor. Yeah, they showed up, but did they have fun? What are chambers doing, right now, to put the glitter back in their events? We will search for new ideas, new approaches, and new surprises to shake up those who show up.
May 19th: Making White Space – Fighting the Urge to Do Everything
Chambers can’t be everything to everyone, yet we seem to always be adding more to the pile – more events, more partnerships, more programs. How do we make white space by strategically reducing what we do? How do we approach the elimination of initiatives that might be outdated, a drain on resources, done better elsewhere, or simply unnecessary?
