Telle Whitney was a student at the University of Utah as she attempted to carve our her career path. There was just one catch, though: she had no idea what she wanted to do with the rest of her life! Close to admitting defeat, Telle took an interest test that gave her high compatibility scores…
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Cece Harris
If you’ve ever worked with a business and thought, “I just wish they understood me,” then Cece Harris would be your dream collaborator. With a love for client experience that feels right out of the playbooks of Disney and Nordstrom, Cece takes her role as customer and client advocate very seriously. In fact, she takes…
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Jakki Mohr
Teaching and technology is what makes Regents Professor Jakki Mohr tick. A senior faculty member in the University of Montana School of Business Administration, she’s built her career on being at the forefront of marketing high tech products and services. In fact, she’s received international acclaim for her educational book also authored by Sanjit Sengupta…
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Rebekah Iliff
A job in PR is all about connecting: making connections, keeping them and growing them. And any PR woman worth looking up to will tell you it’s the act of connection that leads to the biggest stories. Rebekah Iliff is one of those women — not only does she crave the act of connection with others,…
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Alice Steinglass
Alice Steinglass always knew she liked math and science. Bigger yet, she loved understanding how the world works. With a knack for taking things apart to figure out how they worked, Alice was a lover of the logic of math and science and how neatly everything fit together. But, at the same time, while growing…
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Vanessa Slavich
Vanessa Slavich likes to tackle her life with eyes wide open. After spending her senior year studying abroad in Copenhagen, Vanessa realized, “The world was big, and I needed to go see it.” So, after coming back home to the States, she was itching to leave again. This time that itch took her to London…
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Blake Irving
Ask people what word they often associate with “GoDaddy” and chances are it’s not very female-friendly. CEO and Board Director Blake Irving is out to change that. “I think that women will characterize GoDaddy’s last 10 years of advertising as misogynistic and not honoring women,” he says. “We’re going in a very different direction –…
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Elissa Murphy
When Elissa Murphy was first asked to join the GoDaddy team she thought, “GoDaddy?!” But when she arrived, she says, “I was struck by how different the company culture was from the brand. There was this massive gap. The environment was very embracing of diversity, but who would’ve guessed!” Now convinced as ever and chief…
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Vanessa Hurst
Vanessa Hurst entered the University of Virginia intending to major in biomedical engineering. Then, like all engineering students at her university, Vanessa was required to take a computer science class. That class ended up fascinating her and changing how she saw the world, and Vanessa quickly changed her major to computer science. “When I looked…
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Penny Herscher
If you had befriended Penny Herscher as a young girl, play dates would have been in a room with carefully crafted modeled airplanes hanging from the ceiling. It was her dream, after all, to become a member of the Royal Air Force. But, at the time women weren’t allowed to serve in combat forces in…