Multiple Boards of Directors

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area United States

My husband describes my career as "crime, slums, money, PR, speaking and entrepreneurship". Although those seem like very, very different careers, they share one common element. Helping leaders grow... and, change. Although I started undergraduate school as a "want-to-be-CPA" , I switched to economics when my professor told me I belonged in "management". From that kick start, I've been privileged to rise (almost) to the top in four very different fields: ---state government, where I advanced from being a classified Civil Servant Grants Administrator to appointment as the Deputy Commissioner of the MN Corrections Department; ---urban economic development, as VP of sales and marketin...