New Jersey Business & Industry Association

Michele Siekerka, president and CEO of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association
May 15, 2023

Checking in on the ‘Year of the Business Owner’

“We take for granted our businesses. And more importantly, we take for granted our business owners. We need to understand and personalize the business owner and what their daily plight is," Michele Siekerka, president and CEO of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association told NJBIZ.

NJBIA legislative panel
Dec 12, 2022

NJBIA holds annual policy forum amid worrying economic times

“We’re going to identify, we’re going to talk about, and we’re going to stare down some of those challenges that you all told us about,” said Michel Siekerka, president and CEO of the New Jersey Business & Industry Association’s 2023 Public Policy Forum in Woodbridge and examined the economic challenges facing both the nation and the Garden State.

Welder/fitter Kevin Minella, left, working with Carl Hosterman, group leader, at Komline Sanderson in the NJMEP Apprentice Program.
Feb 24, 2022

NJ business groups forge partnership to boost manufacturing

The New Jersey Business & Industry Association and New Jersey Manufacturing Extension Program established Manufacturing Counts “to unite, broaden and strengthen the support of manufacturing businesses throughout the state."