Wesley Beary
Age:Â 33
Occupation:Â 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:Â 33
Occupation:Â 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...
Joe Horaney
Age:Â 38
Occupation:Â Communications Director, Cedar Rapids/Linn County Solid Waste Agency
What’s the best advice you ever received?
Nobody likes to be sold, but everyone loves to buy.
What do...
Justin Grobe
Age:Â 36
Occupation:Â Assistant Professor, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine
What do you consider your greatest professional accomplishments?
Over the last few years my collaborators and I...
Jason Grimm
Age:Â 31
Occupation:Â Food System Planner, Iowa Valley Resource Conservation and Development
What’s the best advice you ever received?
To never forget about your family, friends and community –...
Stephanie Gray
Age:Â 33
Occupation:Â Founder and Owner, Doctor of Nursing Practice, Nurse Practitioner at Integrative Health and Hormone Clinic
What do you consider your greatest professional accomplishments?Founding and growing...
Dustin Embree
Age:Â 36
Occupation:Â Executive Director, Jones County Economic Development
What’s the best advice you ever received?
Do the most difficult task or the one you dread the most first....
Brittney Clarke
Age:Â 31
Occupation:Â AVP, Retail Banking Manager, Cedar Rapids Bank & Trust
What do you consider your greatest professional accomplishments?
I started working in banking as a teller 10...
Devin Carney
Age:Â 32
Occupation:Â Automation Support Manager, Van Meter Inc.
What’s the best advice you ever received?
I wasn't a model student in high school. I was unmotivated, aloof and...
Chad Brandmeyer
Age:Â 38
Occupation:Â Senior Manager, RSM US LLP
What’s the best advice you ever received?
Give people more than they expect, and be positive and work hard.
What do you...