Ninja Leadership

By Paula Redmann  What defines a leader? Is it a title, the number of direct reports, being a celebrity, being “famous,” (whatever that means to you), years of success, a diploma, or a series of capitalized letters after a name? Trying to define leadership kind of...

Look What She Did: Peggy Netzer

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. And for the staff at Ruth Meiers, the same applies when it comes to feminine hygiene products. Last spring, they received a truck and trailer filled with feminine hygiene products and have been brainstorming ways to share...

Look What She Did: Nina Loeks

Nina Loeks is pretty confident she was put on this earth to teach art. The past few months have reaffirmed that. “I have worked most of my life in education. I have taught art, but last spring I was teaching preschool and missed teaching art. So I put up a website and...

Look What She Did: Mary DuBord

Behind every good man is a good woman. Mary DuBord would argue that oftentimes behind a good woman, there’s another good woman. Mary started her business, The Wife’s Wife, in the spring of 2017. “My husband was trimming hedges for someone and they asked if he cleaned...

Lead By Example

By Jody Kerzman ⼁Submitted Photo Of all the challenges I’ve faced in my 42 years of life, raising daughters might be the toughest one yet. Tougher than that economics class I had to take in college. Tougher than recovering from knee surgery in my late 20s. Tougher...