High Country PETS Agenda and Speakers
The High Country PETS committee has worked hard to build a fantastic event to prepare you to serve as president of your club.
Check out the 2025 PETS Schedule as a preview of what you will experience!  See you soon! 
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Friday Evening Plenary Session
T.J. Sullivan
Leadership Speaker, Author of Best-selling Book "Motivating the Middle"
Rotary Club of Denver Cherry Creek
 
T.J. Sullivan joined the Denver Cherry Creek Rotary Club in 2023. For more than 30 years, T.J. has been speaking on college campuses about student health and leadership, racking up more than 5-million airline miles and speaking to more than 3-million college students in all 50 states. His book Motivating the Middle: Fighting Apathy in College Student Organizations is used by more than 100 university leadership courses coast-to-coast. In 2019, he stopped traveling full-time and took a "real job." He serves as the President & CEO of the Parker Chamber of Commerce and Foundation, but he still speaks for a dozen or so college campuses each year. He lives in Denver and spends way too much time posting pictures of his chihuahuas, Jelly and Pickle, on Instagram.
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Saturday Morning Plenary Session
RIDE Wyn Spiller
Rotary Director-Elect for Zones 26 & 27 2024-25
Rotary Club of Grass Valley CA
 
Wyn Spiller is a proud member of the Rotary Club of Grass Valley CA.  Since joining in 1994, she has served in a variety of club, district, zone and RI roles including District 5190 Governor 2008-09.  She is the immediate past District Rotary Foundation Committee Chair, immediate past Zone 27 Endowment/Major Gifts Adviser, past Zone 27 Regional Rotary Foundation Coordinator and continues to serve on D5190’s Foundation Committee.   She also serves on the D5190 Community Fund Board and chairs District 5190’s Disaster Response and Visioning Committees. 
 
Wyn was honored to serve as the Rotary International 2022 Council on Legislation Trainer, the first Council to be presented both in-person and virtually.  With a long-standing interest in education and leadership development, she has served as an International Assembly learning facilitator, facilitator for Regional Leaders Global Institutes, and faculty for President-Elect Training (PETS) for a number of years. She assisted in bringing both Visioning and Rotary Leadership Institute to D5190 and has served at both at the District and regional levels of each. She is a long-time supporter and past chair of Rotary Youth Exchange.
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Saturday Noon Plenary Session
Representative Naquetta Ricks
State Representative of House District 40
Aurora, Colorado
 
Representative Naquetta Ricks is the first African immigrant to be elected to the Colorado General Assembly, and the first Liberian American to be elected to any state legislature. When she was only 13, she was forced to flee civil war in Liberia, and her family settled in Aurora, Colorado.
 
Representative Ricks received her undergraduate degree in accounting at MSU, and her MBA from the University of Colorado Denver.  In the summer of 2023, Rep. Ricks was selected to further her leadership education by attending the Harvard Kennedy School's Senior Executives in State & Local Government program.
 
She is the Chair of the House Committee on Business Affairs & Labor, and is a member on the State, Civic, Military & Veterans Affairs Committee; as well as the Colorado Black Caucus and Women’s Caucus. She is also the owner and operator of a successful small mortgage brokerage business and is the founder and President of the African Chamber of Commerce, Colorado USA.  read more 
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Saturday Evening Plenary Session
RIPE Mario Cesar Martins de Camargo 
Rotary International President-elect 2024-25
Rotary Club de Santo André, Brazil
 
Mario Cesar Martins de Camargo is business consultant to the printing industry and former director of Gráfica Bandeirantes, a printing company founded by his father. Under his leadership, he expanded the company to be a supplier of printed material for clients in Brazil and South America including Visa, Ford, Volkswagen, and Microsoft.

De Camargo attended military school and graduated from a high school in St. Paul, Minnesota, during a youth exchange program. He did a yearlong internship at MAN Roland, a printing press manufacturer in Offenbach, Germany, before earning his undergraduate degree at the Fundação Getulio Vargas School of Business Administration in São Paulo. He also received his law degree from the School of Law of São Bernardo do Campo.

He has led numerous professional associations, including as president of the Brazilian Association of Printing Technology (ABTG) and the Brazilian Printing Industry Association (ABIGRAF). He was also delegate director of the Federation of Industry of the State of São Paulo (FIESP) in the National Confederation of Industry (CNI), vice president of FIESP, and vice president of the Latin American Confederation of the Printing Industry (Conlatingraf). He received the Printing Leader of the Americas award from the Printing Association of Florida and the Global Presidential Print Award from NPES, The Association for Suppliers of Printing, Publishing and Converting Technologies.

De Camargo joined Rotary in 1980 at the age of 23. read more... 
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Sunday Morning Plenary Session
How to Rock Your Presidential Year
The DGEs of Rotary Districts 5440, 5450, 5470, and 5630
about the DGEs...
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