Join the Wisconsin LGBT Chamber of Commerce for our next northeast Wisconsin "Food for Thought" featuring Bod Pedersen, President & CEO of Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin.
The objective of “Food for Thought” is to provide Chamber members an opportunity to have lunch and a discussion in a small group with a key community or business leader and hear their story.
Robert A. “Bob” Pedersen has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Goodwill Industries of North Central Wisconsin, Inc. since 1991. He provides executive leadership, vision, management and administration for this not-for-profit human services organization that since 2013, has helped to improve the lives of more than 63,300 people across north central Wisconsin annually, through 29 human services programs and employment services. Bob has more than 45 years of nonprofit leadership experience. Before joining Goodwill, he was Associate Executive Director of Programs and Services for the Brown County Association for Retarded Citizens in Green Bay, Wis., for 17 years. Before returning to Wisconsin in 1974, he was Director of Adult Services for the Pinellas Association for Retarded Children in St. Petersburg, Fla., after starting his professional career as a science teacher in a Green Bay elementary school.