Women of Influence

Here’s a compliment from Tiffany Tauscheck, the first recipient of the Business Record’s Emerging Woman of Influence, to this year’s honoree, Emily Abbas.

“There is simply no other young woman in our community who has …

When Nora Everett began college at Iowa State University, she initially chose physical education as a major because she wanted to be a coach. But after she got a less-than-desired B in soccer while earning …

Early in her career, Monica Friedman took on her first major volunteer commitment when she joined the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s Diversity Committee. That opportunity led to her first board appointment, to the Willkie House …

Stories of women leading with their strengths are common. Diane Glass has led with strength, but she may have achieved more by leading with her vulnerabilities.

Glass was vice president of marketing for The Des …

When Cathy Lacy was going to school, her grandmother would constantly encourage her by telling her: “Education is the one thing that nobody can take away from you.” 

Later, when her two children were young, …

A little more than 21 years ago, Barb Kniff McCulla stood in front of a group of employees of KLK Construction and knew she had to make a decision then and there about her future, …

For Dawn Martinez Oropeza, recalling how her father was stripped of his cultural identity drives her to make sure that doesn’t happen to 600 middle and high school students her organization mentors in Des Moines …

Collaborative, progressive, energetic, hardworking. Complimentary adjectives all, and difficult to beat after a 16-year political career that has followed a guiding principle that you can’t please all of the people all of the time.

Carlisle …

Eileen Wixted tells her staff to make friends wherever they go, whether they are at the McDonald’s drive-thru or navigating the security check at an airport. “It will enrich your life because a rich, rewarding …