Women of Influence

Sara Kurovski believes she’s where she is today because of key moments in her life — specifically, those moments when someone believed in her.

She remembers one person in particular: David Maxwell, a former teacher …

Whenever someone tells Katie Roth, “Gee, I’d love to own my own business,” Roth thinks, “You want to own it, but you don’t want to run it.” 

In other words, running your own small business …

Iowa Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds wasn’t the girl in seventh grade who one day aspired to run for office. However, throughout her career, Reynolds learned that in order to be a change agent, involvement is …

Kathryn Kunert is not one of those executives who sat down and mapped out a 40-year plan for their careers. She basically got her degree in public administration and set out to work hard. Her …

Perhaps not surprisingly, Mashal Husain considers herself a citizen of the world. She was born in Karachi, Pakistan, but moved around a lot as her father followed his job as an employee of an American …

Ann Campbell is testament to the fact that things don’t always turn out the way you plan.

Campbell has been mayor of Ames since 2006. At the end of her current term in 2017, she …

Elisabeth Buck will tell you she is nothing without the people around her.

Whether it’s reaching a goal with co-workers or serving fellow Iowans, Buck said she finds the most success and satisfaction in seeing …

Pat Boddy’s world is as big as the great outdoors and as small as a Scrabble board, but her challenge at the moment is plucking a harp around a campfire.

It could be argued that …

Early on, Susan Beck thought she would become a dentist like her father. 

“I was going to follow in his footsteps,” recalled the Des Moines native, who had already been accepted to dental school when …