Brittany Lamont, 30

Brittany Lamont knew she wanted to do something in business from a young age, going back to watching her mom, a successful saleswoman, outwork and outhustle the competition.

What she didn’t expect was to find her passion for one workplace so quickly: the Greater Sarasota Chamber of Commerce. From an internship in 2012 to a pair of promotions, Lamont is now vice president of the chamber, second-in-command to the CEO. “I basically grew up in the chamber,” she says.

That means a combination of internal and external work. On the external, Lamont is one of the public faces of the chamber, shuttling between events and constantly networking. On the inside, she was a key player on a team that recently overhauled the chamber’s model to a tiered system of dues, a complicated project she calls one of her proudest work moments at the chamber. “We single-handedly changed the way we operate,” she says. “This touches so many things we do.”