Event Title
Lunch Address: Two Roads Diverge: Expectations and Their Evolution
Location
Disney Dining Room
Start Date
29-3-2019 12:00 PM
End Date
29-3-2019 1:30 PM
Description
Katie Worthington Decker presents "Two Roads Diverge: Expectations and Their Evolution."
COinS
Mar 29th, 12:00 PM
Mar 29th, 1:30 PM
Lunch Address: Two Roads Diverge: Expectations and Their Evolution
Disney Dining Room
Katie Worthington Decker presents "Two Roads Diverge: Expectations and Their Evolution."
Comments
Katie is a 2005 graduate of the University of Central Florida's Rosen College. While in college Katie was on the opening team at The Ritz Carlton Orlando Grande Lakes in Front Desk Operations. Since graduating, she worked in insurance, banking, healthcare administration and strategic marketing and communications and community development.
She began her tenure as President/CEO of the Greater Winter Haven Chamber of Commerce in March 2014. Her community involvement, volunteerism and work in hospitality, marketing and economic development is what led her to this position. She founded the Winter Haven Young Professionals Group, served as the Winter Haven Chamber Foundation president for two terms, graduated Polk Vision's Leadership Polk Class VI and chaired Class IX. She served on the Board of Directors for the Humane Society of Polk County, has been an employee campaign coordinator and young leaders society member for the United Way of Central Florida and was a charity volunteer dancer for the 2010 Polk Education Foundation Stepping Out for Education "Dancing with the Stars" style event and celebrity lip syncer for a Winter Haven Public Education Partnership fundraiser. She also serves on the boards of Main Street Winter Haven and the Winter Haven Economic Development Council.
Over the last decade Katie has discovered a true passion for developing Winter Haven and Polk County through servant leadership, ingenuity, partnership and giving back to the community that has provided her with so many opportunities to learn and grow.