The Michigan Business and Professionals Association boasts a statewide sphere of influence that no other organization of its kind can claim, leveraging a depth of programs and community initiatives that positively impact more than 150,000 businesses.

MBPA’s impact is felt by approximately one out of every three businesses in the state. The employees of these 150,000-plus businesses represent an untold number of additional lives positively affected by the organization’s mission and history of successful business partnership.

Through our organization’s programs, affiliates and sister companies, this translates to hundreds of thousands of professionals and leaders in our statewide business community, effecting transformative change with one collective mission and guiding priority—making your business better.

With over 30 educational workshops and conferences, 100 business programs and the 101 Best and Brightest series of recognition and educational programs, MBPA provides tangible, measurable and demonstrable improvement on business, profitability, employee welfare and economic stability in the state.  

MBPA’s reach further touches more than 20,000 individuals in our community, who we have been positively impacted by our substantial and meaningful charity initiatives. These programs notably include Metro Detroit Youth Day, as well as our work with several nonprofit organizations with whom we engage as an organization and as individual citizen partners.

MBPA’s representatives serve on more than 40 community-based boards that share our mission to improve our collective business and societal community.

MBPA also has a direct impact with thousands of individuals in print, broadcast and electronic media, as well as those within state government.  

Our depth of business partnerships and breadth of community involvement represent a collective, measurable and positive impact on individuals statewide that, all told, number in the hundreds of thousands—and growing!