Wylie Area Chamber of Commerce
You don’t join a directory. You join a community.
Inside — The cover story: the 6th Annual East Collin County Women’s Conference · Also — Leadership Wylie, Class XXIII, registration now open · Plus — The business directory & member map, and how to belong
Connect
Grow
Flourish
In this issue
The argument
A chamber is not a membership list
Ask most people what a chamber of commerce is and they will describe a list — a roll of names, a logo on a window, a card in a drawer. That is the smallest possible version of the idea, and it misses the whole point.
The Wylie Area Chamber of Commerce exists for a plainer, larger reason: to create opportunities for Wylie area businesses to connect, grow, and flourish. Read that again. Not to be listed. To connect.
What that means in practice is a room — literal and figurative — where owners, professionals and newcomers meet each other, where a first handshake becomes a referral, and where a small business finds the advocacy and education it needs to last.
It means standing in partnership with the City of Wylie, the Economic Development Corporation, Collin College and the school district, so that what is good for business is good for the community too. Belonging, not listing. That is the whole idea.
6th Annual East Collin County Women’s Conference
Unbridled: Leadership Without Limits — lead boldly, think freely.
When: Thursday, June 4, 2026 — 8:30 AM – 4:00 PM CDT
Where: Collin College Wylie Conference Center, East Collin County
Tickets: $85 per person through May 4; Chamber members $70 per person through May 4
Departments
Every seat is a Wylie area business
Connect
Networking that puts owners, professionals and newcomers face to face — members and non-members alike, doing life and business alongside one another.
Grow
Advocacy for business-friendly policy and educational resources that give companies what they need to prosper across the Wylie area.
Flourish
Leadership development and civic engagement so that people, businesses and the wider community can genuinely thrive together.
Program · 04
Leadership Wylie builds the community’s next leaders
Leadership development for aspiring community leaders — the civic engagement that keeps the Wylie area moving forward, year after year.
Leadership Wylie — Class XXIII: The next cohort is forming now. Take your seat in the program that shapes local leaders. Registration is now open.
In partnership with
City of Wylie
Wylie Economic Development Corporation
Collin College
Wylie Independent School District
Belong to the Wylie business community
Join the recognized hub for the region’s businesses and start connecting, growing, and flourishing.
The team
The recognized leader and hub of the Wylie area business community.
Tina Stelnicki, IOM
CEO · tina@wyliechamber.org
Anna Robinson
Membership Coordinator · membership@wyliechamber.org
Melissa Young
Event Coordinator / Office Manager · events@wyliechamber.org
Leslie Howard
Communications Administrator · leslie@wyliechamber.org