Crest of the Wave

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode as well as what future content you might be interested in. Send us a message here! During the month of April each year, Jeep enthusiasts from around the world descend upon the Daytona Beach region. They participate in activities throughout the area, from a beach parade to an obstacle course built at Daytona International Speedway and much more, a...

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode as well as what future content you might be interested in. Send us a message here! In October 2025, Kristin Weiss joined the Daytona Regional Chamber as incoming President & CEO. She worked alongside her predecessor, Nancy Keefer, for a couple of months getting to know the organization and community. On January 1, she officially took the lead...

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode as well as what future content you might be interested in. Send us a message here! As temperatures warm across the Daytona Beach region, visitors descend on the area for a number of significant events. Speedweeks and the Daytona 500, Bike Week, Jeep Beach, Welcome to Rockville, and more entice locals and visitors alike. In this episode of Crest o...

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode as well as what future content you might be interested in. Send us a message here! In July of this year, Dr. Albert Mosley was inaugurated as the 8th President of Bethune-Cookman University. We sat down with Dr. Mosley recently to learn more about his journey to the helm of the institution founded by Daytona Beach’s own Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune. H...

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode as well as what future content you might be interested in. Send us a message here! The state of Florida recently became the 15th largest economy in the world, if it were a nation of its own, with a gross domestic product exceeding $1.7 trillion. That’s not just happening by chance. The Florida Chamber Foundation has set a long-term goal of making...

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode as well as what future content you might be interested in. Send us a message here! Downtown Daytona Beach is home to Jackie Robinson Memorial Ballpark. A setting rich in baseball and civil rights history as the exact location at which Jackie Robinson broke professional baseball’s color barrier in March of 1946. Home to the Daytona Tortugas for th...

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode as well as what future content you might be interested in. Send us a message here! In the last episode of Crest of the Wave, we learned about Readers to Leaders, a partnership of the Daytona Regional Chamber, Leadership Daytona Alumni Council, Early Learning Coalition of Flagler Volusia, and Volusia County Schools. It’s an initiative that emerged...

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode as well as what future content you might be interested in. Send us a message here! In spring of 2023, then-chair of the Daytona Regional Chamber, Nellie Lupoli of ICI Homes, was contemplating what challenge she would issue to the Leadership Daytona class later that summer. Reviewing data from the Florida Chamber’s “Florida Scorecard”, she discove...

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode as well as what future content you might be interested in. Send us a message here! May is National Mental Health Month. Mental health is becoming an increasingly important topic in the workplace as the wellbeing of company staff members becomes a critical component in employee retention. It is an important issue across an entire organization…from...

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode as well as what future content you might be interested in. Send us a message here! Ernie Audino is a retired Brigadier General following a lengthy career with the United States Army. Since retiring from the Army, he also spent time serving as District Director for Congressman Michael Waltz in Florida’s 6th Congressional District. When Waltz was a...

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode as well as what future content you might be interested in. Send us a message here! Advocacy is among the most important work of the Daytona Regional Chamber. Each year, the members of our Cornerstone Committee engage with our membership to determine the business-oriented priorities we share with the elected officials at the local, state, and fede...

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode as well as what future content you might be interested in. Send us a message here! There is a burgeoning entrepreneurial ecosystem thriving in the Daytona Beach region…with gatherings such as 1 Million Cups as well as incubators such as Volusia County’s UCF Business Incubator at Daytona Beach International Airport and Embry-Riddle’s John Mica Eng...

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode as well as what future content you might be interested in. Send us a message here! As we close out 2024, we’ll take a look back at the year that was in the City of Daytona Beach by chatting with Mayor Derrick Henry. We’ll talk about some of the highlights in economic development, tourism and hospitality, housing, and infrastructure. We also discu...

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode as well as what future content you might be interested in. Send us a message here! Our local school system is a primary provider of future community and business leaders. A 2022 study conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau and researchers at Harvard University found that at age 26, nearly 70% of the population lives within the commuting zone in whic...

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode as well as what future content you might be interested in. Send us a message here! Infrastructure planning is a complicated task balancing the immediate needs of the region while forecasting future use with the best data possible. On this episode of Crest of the Wave, we’ll speak with Colleen Nicoulin, Executive Director of the River to Sea TPO s...

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We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode as well as what future content you might be interested in. Send us a message here! In 2023, the Florida Legislature passed the REACH Act 2.0, a wide-reaching bill significantly impacting workforce & education throughout the state. In this episode, we’ll speak with Marci Murphy, Executive Director of the new CareerSource Brevard Flagler Volusi...

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode as well as what future content you might be interested in. Send us a message here! In August, the racing world will once again turn its eyes to Daytona Beach as the World Center of Racing hosts the Coke Zero Sugar 400. That’s one of many activities held at Daytona International Speedway each year. Many are racing oriented, while others bring musi...

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode as well as what future content you might be interested in. Send us a message here! June marks the beginning of hurricane season each year. It’s when Floridians look for predictions from weather experts and hope the state is spared from direct impacts. In this episode of the Crest of the Wave, we’ll talk with Volusia County Emergency Management Di...

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode as well as what future content you might be interested in. Send us a message here! In 2017, the volunteer leadership of the Daytona Regional Chamber started discussing what innovative Chamber facilities should look like. In this inaugural episode of the Crest of the Wave, we’ll talk with President & CEO Nancy Keefer and Chairman of the Board...