Jennifer Pruden
Age: 32
Occupation: Executive Director, Czech Village/New Bohemian Main Street District
What’s the best advice you ever received?
Focus on what you can do right now.
What do you...
Christopher Hummer
Age: 38
Occupation: President, Don Hummer Trucking Corp.
What’s the best advice you ever received?
Not really one piece of advice, but having the opportunity to spend...
Akwi Nji
Age: 37
Occupation: Founder and Executive Director, The Hook; Licensed Realtor, Coldwell Banker Hedges Realty
What’s the best advice you ever received?
Don't try to please everyone – it's...
Aaron Horn
Age: 36
Occupation: Director - Information Technology, Iowa Interstate Railroad; President - Beat Cancer Today
What’s the best advice you ever received?
Be the note taker in...
Tracey Myers
Age: 29
Occupation: Executive Director, Zach Johnson Foundation
What’s the best advice you ever received?
You're never wrong if you do the right thing.
What do you consider your...
Emily Mulbach
Age: 32
Occupation: Communications Coordinator - City of Cedar Rapids
What’s the best advice you ever received?
Speak truth to power, take your vacation days, and don’t try...
Christina Kimerle
Age: 32
Occupation: Executive Director, Friends of the Animal Center Foundation
What’s the best advice you ever received?
If you love what you do you'll never work...
Kyle Faille
Age: 27
Occupation: Mechanical/ Electrical Group Leader, Electrical Engineering at Shive-Hattery Architecture & Engineering
What’s the best advice you ever received?
"Keep your idealism practical” via a Hy-Vee fortune...
Wesley Beary
Age: 33
Occupation: Hacker Laureate, Heroku
What’s the best advice you ever received?
My inheritance, not through words but through actions, from my parents. Curiosity, the hacker mindset, a...
Bill Daly
Age: 33
Occupation: Attorney and Vice President, Shuttleworth & Ingersoll PLC
What do you consider your greatest professional accomplishments?
Becoming partner as well as being fortunate to work at...