{"id":388908,"date":"2025-11-19T02:20:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388908\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T02:20:46","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T02:20:46","slug":"drc-ceo-dale-petrosky-on-what-makes-a-great-career-dallas-innovates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/388908\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC CEO Dale\u00a0Petrosky On What Makes a Great Career \u00bb Dallas Innovates"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

Dale Petrosky [Composite image: DI Studio; Source photo, DRC]<\/p>\n

Dale Petroskey<\/strong>
President and CEO\u00a0
Dallas Regional Chamber<\/p>\n

\u2026 on his advice to young leaders, via the Dallas Business Journal.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

CEO Dale Petroskey is stepping down at the end of the year after 12 years leading the Dallas Regional Chamber\u2014a tenure that saw the Dallas-Fort Worth region add a 33% increase in Fortune 500 companies and position itself to become the nation\u2019s third-largest metro by the 2030s. The Dallas Business Journal honored him with the Lifetime Achievement Award at its 2025 C-Suite Leaders Awards on November 13.<\/p>\n

Under Petroskey\u2019s leadership, the DRC was named National Chamber of the Year in 2022. He\u2019ll hand off to his successor, Brad Cheves, a longtime SMU executive, while heading into retirement closer to family.<\/p>\n

From his 26th-floor corner office in Ross Tower, the 70-year-old has watched Dallas\u2019 skyline transform\u2014the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge rising over the Trinity, the Goldman Sachs campus now blocking his view of American Airlines Center, and towers sprouting across Uptown, according to the DBJ. One \u201ccareer-defining\u201d moment? Getting called out by Press Secretary Larry Speakes in a Reagan White House meeting for not taking notes<\/a>, a lesson that led to 40 years of keeping a notepad in his pocket.<\/p>\n

For more on Petroskey\u2019s legacy and Dallas\u2019 economic transformation, read the Dallas Business Journal story here<\/a>. As he puts it: \u201cPeople have gotten the message and now understand that this is a pretty great place to be in and to do business.\u201d<\/p>\n

For more of who said what about all things North Texas, check out Every Last Word.<\/a><\/p>\n

Don\u2019t miss what\u2019s next. Subscribe\u00a0to\u00a0Dallas\u00a0Innovates.<\/p>\n

Track Dallas-Fort Worth\u2019s business and innovation landscape with our curated news in your inbox Tuesday-Thursday.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dale Petrosky [Composite image: DI Studio; Source photo, DRC] Dale PetroskeyPresident and CEO\u00a0Dallas Regional Chamber \u2026 on his…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":388909,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5135],"tags":[5229,185282,37699,1596,185283,37700,86525,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-388908","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-dallas","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-brad-cheves","10":"tag-dale-petroskey","11":"tag-dallas","12":"tag-dallas-business-journal","13":"tag-dallas-regional-chamber","14":"tag-southern-methodist-university","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115573976375345087","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388908\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}