Employers Leading in Connection
The collapse of social connection and trust is reshaping what it means to lead. Employees are more isolated than ever. Communities are fracturing. And AI is accelerating the distance between people.
Companies that get ahead of it will have a strategic advantage as an employer, a brand, and a civic leader.
The question isn't whether connection matters to your business.
It's how you're going to lead on it.
Collaborating Partners
"Connection is quickly becoming a core business strategy."
Three Ways to Lead on Connection
1. Build Connection Inside Your Organization
FOR SOCIAL IMPACT & HR LEADERS
A third of employees rarely have a real conversation with a colleague in a given week. Gen Z workers are 8x more likely than Gen X to feel lonely at work. Disconnection is driving turnover, absenteeism, and the erosion of mentorship and collaboration that make organizations work.
It won't fix itself. It requires intentional infrastructure.
DESIGNING FOR CONNECTION ACROSS WORKPLACE EXPERIENCES
Whatever your team is already doing (offsites, volunteer days, onboarding, ERG gatherings), we help you make it genuinely connective. Works across your offsites, onboarding, ERG events, all-hands, volunteer days, and company gatherings.
Connected Conversations™
Behaviorally-grounded, facilitated prompts that move people beyond small talk into real sharing. Layerable onto almost any existing event in about 30 minutes. Created and licensed by the US Chamber of Connection.
Six Points of Connection Workshops
Training that teaches employees how to build a connected life, developing the social skills and intentionality that make them better colleagues, neighbors, and leaders.
Employee Welcome Letter Writing
Employees write handwritten letters to new employees to help them transition into your culture and accelerate belonging. Bookable in-person or virtually through Goodera.
Invite-a-Thons
The majority of people are disconnected simply because they weren’t invited in. In an hour, employees reflect on the people they want to connect with inside and outside the organization and send the invite to join them for a meal, walk, conversation, activity, or event.
VOLUNTEER FOR CONNECTION
Connection happens in small moments: a handwritten letter, a neighbor you finally meet, a block party that becomes a tradition. We give employees the structure, the tools, and the community to make those moments happen.
Connection Letter Writing
A powerful starting point for companies new to connection-focused volunteering. Employees write handwritten letters to neighbors going through life transitions: newcomers, new parents, retirees, people navigating health or career changes. Emotionally resonant and turnkey. Bookable in-person or virtually through Goodera.
Welcome Committee
Employees become Neighborhood Leaders, taking on a named, identity-driven role in their community. Welcome Committee volunteers are the human infrastructure for social connection. The role builds the human skills AI can't replace: empathy, trust, the ability to bring people together.
Turnkey onramps · Volunteer training and toolkits · Peer community · Stories and data that show impact
Created and licensed by the US Chamber of Connection
2. Invest in Social Connection in Your Communities
FOR SOCIAL IMPACT LEADERS
The neighborhoods where your employees recruit, your customers live, and your brand operates are becoming less trusting, less connected, and less resilient. That's not just a social problem. It's a business risk.
52% of Americans are at-risk or vulnerable for social isolation, and lower-income communities are twice as disconnected. Companies that invest in rebuilding connection aren't just doing good. They're protecting the conditions that individuals, businesses, and communities need to thrive: the talent pipelines, customer trust, and civic goodwill that can't be taken for granted.
Carrie Varoquiers
Chief Impact Officer
"We are committed to investing in connection as a cause, and that includes supporting our employees to strengthen social connection in their neighborhoods. Partnering with the Chamber of Connection has made it easy for our people to play a meaningful role in this work."
WELCOME COMMITTEE
We have Welcome Committee Neighborhood Leaders across 80 cities and 25 states, and we're growing.
When your company partners with us, your employees join a national movement. Your company publicly leads on one of the defining challenges of our time. And the neighborhoods they call home become measurably more connected.
CITY ANCHOR PARTNER
Become the civic anchor for connection in your headquarters city or a major employee hub.
City Anchor Partners fund the local infrastructure that makes connection possible at scale: chapter leadership and coordination, a growing network of Welcome Committee volunteers across neighborhoods, citywide convenings and activations, and visible partnerships across business, government, and community organizations.
Your company is named as the founding partner in every neighborhood, event, and civic partnership the chapter touches.
You become the company that decided connection in your city was worth investing in, before anyone else did.
Built for companies ready to make a multi-year commitment.
3. Be National Leader in Connection
FOR EXECUTIVE TEAMS
The collapse of social connection is reshaping every dimension of business: how people work, how customers relate to brands, how communities respond to the companies operating within them. And artificial intelligence is accelerating the stakes.
A small group of executive leaders are thinking about this differently. Not as a social impact question. As a strategic one.
THE FOUNDERS CIRCLE
The Founders Circle is an invitation-only group of senior leaders working with the Chamber of Connection to understand what it means to build a genuinely connected organization, brand, and community presence in this moment.
Members work directly with Aaron Hurst, founder and CEO of the US Chamber of Connection and one of the country's leading architects of the reconnection movement, alongside a peer cohort of C-suite and senior executives from some of the country's most forward-thinking organizations.
This is not a sponsorship. It's a founding partnership in the infrastructure for connection in America.
Reserved for a small number of organizations each year.
ABOUT US
Your Partner for Connection
The US Chamber of Connection is the national nonprofit building the infrastructure for connection in America: in neighborhoods, workplaces, and the marketplace.
We don't deliver programs. We build the systems, train the leaders, and create the conditions that make connection possible at scale and measurable.
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