Merging for Success
Meet Our Speakers
CEO, Lynchburg Regional Business Alliance
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Megan Lucas is a seasoned community and economic development professional. Her career in the industry spans more than 17 years and includes the states of Tennessee, Nebraska and Virginia.
Megan is currently the CEO and Chief Economic Development Officer at the Lynchburg Regional Business Alliance. She is charged with leading the work of the Alliance, focusing on regional job creation and capital investment. She serves as an entrepreneurial business and economic development thought leader in our region and provides innovative, forward-thinking leadership for the organization and the Alliance Board.
Megan is a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Institute Board of Trustees and Chair of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Curriculum Committee. She has been a U.S. Chamber Institute Instructor for six years teaching: Volunteer Management, Marketing Strategies and Economic Development. She also sits on the Virginia Economic Developers Association Board of Directors and the Southern Economic Development Council. Megan is a Certified Economic Developer and a Certified Chamber Executive as well as the recipient of Consultant Connects “Top 50 Economic Developers in the Country.”
Christine Kennedy, IOM, CPC, ELI-MP
COO/EVP, Lynchburg Regional Business Alliance
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Christine Kennedy’s leadership journey started over 15 years ago when she was hired at the Lynchburg Regional Chamber (now the Lynchburg Regional Business Alliance) to oversee their Leadership Lynchburg program.
In 2015, she led the Chamber into a successful merger with its regional economic development organization, eliminating competition and creating regional collaboration that had been non-existent for years. During her tenure at the Alliance, Kennedy also has launched several initiatives, including the Business at Breakfast program, the Biz Forward Task Force, the Work Healthy coalition, the Women’s Luncheon Series and the Women of Worth event where the international ATHENA Award is presented.
Christine serves on several boards, including the U.S. Chamber’s Board of Regents, the board of the Virginia Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives and the local Workforce Development Board. In 2010, she was appointed to the Governor’s Workforce Council, serving a three-year term for the state of Virginia.
Join us at AREVA’s Core Training Room
3315 Old Forest Road
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Lunch sponsored by AREVA NP
Time: 12 – 1:30 p.m.
Non- Members – $35
(Lunch included with cost)
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