We are happy to announce Q Casino as the home for the 2022-2023 YP Monthly Luncheons. The July and August luncheons will be held in the former Dog Track Lounge. Please enter through the Hilton Hotel.

Gary Dolphin

Voice of the Hawkeyes &

Owner, Gary Dophin Bar

Jim Collins

President

Loras College

Tama-Lea Lorenzen

Entrepreneur, Contract Trainer & UD Adjunct Instructor

Taryn Kafer

Board President

Alicia Connolly

Vice President

Kevin Meyers

Immediate Past President

Margaret O'Reilly

Co-Director of Marketing

Tara Colley

Co-Director of Marketing

Arantxa Martinez Resendiz

Director of Social media

Olivia Burger

Co-Director of

Programs

McKenzie Kline

Co-Director of

Programs

Codi Putnum

Director of 

Signature Events

Justin Gonner

Co-Director of 

Membership

Jeremy Gerardy

Co-Director of 

Membership

Wes Hartig

Co-Director of

Sponsorship

Brock Renbarger

Co-Director of

Sponsorship

Nicole Mensen

Co-Director of

Student Outreach

Matt Thole

Co-Director of 

Student Outreach

Whitney Sanger

Co-Director of

Volunteer Outreach

Brien Nugent

Co-Director of

Volunteer Outreach

Lisa Schaefer

Coach & Consultant

Shine with Schaefer

Unstoppable Mindset



KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Stop focusing on what you know you don’t want, and decide on what you want.

• Decide what you want. Focus on what you want. Let people know what you want.

• Are you willing to give up what you have to get what you want? 

• Share your shine.

• Shine where you are until you are ready to shine where you belong. 

• Network, network, network!

• It isn’t always what you know, but who you know. And, it isn’t always who you know, but who knows you.

• Remove energy vampires from your life.

• Within the first 90 seconds, you meet someone; they want to know if you care about them, if you can help them, and if they can trust you.



• Be open to change and believe in yourself.

Young Professoinals Dubuque is a program of the Dubuque Area Chamber of Commerce