Award Winners

Brock Worley

Age: 32 Occupation: General Manager, Kenwood Records Management What’s the best advice you ever received? Instead of just treating others the way you would want to be treated, think...

Kyle Zimmerman

Age: 32 Occupation: President, Securian Advisors MidAmerica What was your first job? I was a summer janitor for the Cedar Rapids Community School District. What’s the best advice you ever...

Sarah Zimmerman

Age: 37 Occupation: Partner, BerganKDV  What’s the best advice you ever received? Tomorrow is not guaranteed; make the most of today. What do you consider your greatest professional achievement(s)? I have...

Mindy Olson

Age: 38 Occupation: Vice president, Paulson Electric, PEC Communications What’s the best advice you ever received? Never stop learning. Don’t be in a hurry, and listen more than you speak. What...

Meet 2017’s Women of Influence

The 2017 class of Women of Influence, shown before the April 20 awards ceremony at the Coralville Marriott.  PHOTO MIRANDA MEYER   By Angela Holmes [email protected] Now in...

LaSheila Yates

Executive Director, Cedar Rapids Civil Rights Commission Chief Diversity Officer, City of Cedar Rapids A chronic illness that intensified a few years ago has caused LaSheila...

Jennifer Welton

Jennifer Welton Vice President of Treasury Management, Bankers Trust The term “go-getter” hardly encompasses Jennifer Welton’s relentless drive to strengthen the Corridor community. Her volunteer credentials run...

Cathy Terukina

Executive Vice President Folience If there’s a theme that runs through Cathy Terukina’s life, it could very well be ‘alignment.’ Now the executive vice president of Folience,...

Christy Shipley

                  Construction Manager Iowa Valley Habitat for Humanity Christy Shipley knows what it’s like to grow up in a blue-collar family with difficulties securing stable housing. That’s...

Marsha Nieland

                  Founder/President Fusion Yoga Studio From the outside looking in, some people just seem to have more hours in their days than the average person and Marsha...

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