Thank Your for Making the 2025 Breakfast of Champions a Success.

We are deeply grateful to everyone who joined us for the 2025 Breakfast of Champions—a powerful morning of celebration, connection, and community. Your presence, partnership, and passion helped us bring this year’s theme—“Empowering Leaders, Celebrating Legends”—to life in the most inspiring way.

To our sponsors, honorees, speakers, volunteers, and every guest who showed up to support our mission: thank you.

Your commitment strengthens our work at the African American Chamber of Commerce of Wisconsin to elevate Black businesses, invest in emerging leaders, and champion economic opportunity across our state.

As we move forward, your continued engagement helps us expand our reach, deepen our impact, and ensure that our legacy of leadership endures. We look forward to working alongside you to build a more vibrant, inclusive, and empowered business community.

This is what a Champion looks like!

We are proud to recognize outstanding individuals making a lasting impact:

2025 Business Champion

Seyoum Mengesha

WEDC, Diverse Business Development Director

2025 Young Pioneer

Jeff Cannady

Pwr Fwd Media, Owner

2025 Rising Star

Melissa Blue Muhammad

Allah Mode, CEO

Program Highlights

Fireside Chat with influential voices shaping the future of our region
Chaired by Dr. Deborah N. Allen, CEO of DNA Network, LLC, and Judge Derek Mosley, Director at Marquette University Law School
Emceed by the incomparable Denise Thomas