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2024 Business Leaders of the Year

A collage of five business people dressed in business attire.
Photos | Matt Wright The 2024 Business Leaders of the Year (clockwise from upper left): Ulysses Youngblood, Connie Askin, Chris Coghlin, David Connell, and Kevin Holmes

Being a true business leader is much more than just understanding profits and losses, dealing with customers, creating a vibrant employee culture, or even growing your company.

To be a true force in the Central Massachusetts economy, you need to understand the community your business operates in and develop ways to improve that community to the mutual benefit of its population and your bottom line. Each of the 2024 WBJ Business Leaders of the Year embody this quality and have become essential to the region’s successful function.

WBJ will celebrate these five Business Leaders of the Year and induct the WBJ Hall of Fame, Class of 2024 in a special evening ceremony March 26 at the AC Hotel by Marriott Worcester. If you’d like a masterclass in becoming a true business and community leader, I invite you to come learn from the best.

- Brad Kane, editor

WBJ Web Partners

Business Leaders of the Year

  • Ulysses Youngblood
    Ulysses Youngblood
    Small Business Leader of the Year
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  • Kevin Holmes
    Kevin Holmes
    Large Business Leader of the Year
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  • Chris Coghlin
    Chris Coghlin
    Family Business Leader of the Year
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  • Connie Askin
    Connie Askin
    Small Nonprofit Business Leader of the Year
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  • David Connell
    David Connell
    Large Nonprofit Business Leader of the Year
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