2025 Building Bridges Diversity And Leadership Summit Held Last Week

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The Florence Chamber held its 2025 Building Bridges Diversity and Leadership Summit on Monday. Community participants were welcomed by City of Florence Mayor Lethonia Barnes and Les Echols from the Florence Chamber.

Several speakers addressed the day-long gathering, including Rhonda Midgette of InsightfulHR, Dr. Louis Venters from Francis Marion University and keynote speaker Julian Williams, Vice President of Access and Opportunity for the University of South Carolina.

The program featured a women in leadership panel moderated by Edith Robinson of QVC and an Executive Roundtable featuring executives from MUSC Health Florence, McLeod Health, SC Cancer Alliance and iHeart Media.

The mission of Building Bridges is to enable our community to address diverse issues through a process of changing attitudes & hearts through education and issue awareness.

Building Bridges was sponsored by Duke Energy, Assurant, HopeHealth and Spherion.

To see more photos from the day, click here.