Daring Women Profiles

Seattle Credit Union Chief Operating Officer Tonita Webb Believes Leaders Should Champion Diversity and Inclusion

Seattle Credit Union Chief Operating Officer Tonita Webb Believes Leaders Should Champion Diversity and Inclusion

Webb also says great executives listen to and learn from the people they are charged with leading

As executive vice president and chief operating officer of Seattle Credit Union, Tonita Webb needs to keep her finger on the pulse of the organization, where she oversees day-to-day operations and works to implement the overall strategic goals of the lending institution. Webb is used to excelling under the pressure of leadership and watching out…

Entrepreneur and Restaurateur Suji Park Has Built a Global Business Connecting People Through Food

Entrepreneur and Restaurateur Suji Park Has Built a Global Business Connecting People Through Food

Parks Seattle-based food-distribution company brings the tastes of Korea to U.S. consumers

Suji Park is the founder and chief executive officer of Sujis Restaurant Group and Food Dreams Made Real (FDMR), which does business as Sujis Korean Cuisine. Through her companies, Park operates multiple restaurants outside the United States in Seoul and Tokyo. In addition, Seattle-based FDMR sells Sujis Korean Cuisine-branded food products through major retailers in…

Seattle Entrepreneur LeeAnn Baker Stedings Story Shows That Bouncing Back Is a Path to Success

Seattle Entrepreneur LeeAnn Baker Stedings Story Shows That Bouncing Back Is a Path to Success

The owner of the nearly 17-year-old LeeAnn Baker Interiors found the confidence to overcome a business failure early on in her career

LeeAnn Baker Steding, the founder of LeeAnn Baker Interiors Ltd., in Seattle learned a big lesson of entrepreneurship early on: Never give up. Her first business venture, a glossy New York magazine targeting professional decorators, succumbed to the vagaries of the publishing industry and breathed its last in 2001, after three years of publishing as…

Liz Dunn Has Blazed an Impressive Path as a Seattle Entrepreneur

Liz Dunn Has Blazed an Impressive Path as a Seattle Entrepreneur

Dunns career is defined by variety and marked by success across multiple disciplines, including tech, real estate and angel investing

Liz Dunn is the very definition of an entrepreneur. After spending the initial years of her career as a software developer at Microsoft, she changed gears and launched her own company in a completely different field: real estate. Through her company, Dunn & Hobbes, she has spent the past 21 years developing and managing real…

Fierce Inc. President Stacey Engle Makes a Career Out of Conversation

Fierce Inc. President Stacey Engle Makes a Career Out of Conversation

Engle encourages creativity and connection with colleagues, customers and family

Stacey Engle spent eight years in a variety of roles at Fierce Inc. before becoming president in November 2018. The Seattle-based business management consultancy works with individuals and companies large and small, teaching them how to achieve success in work and life, one conversation at a time. Clients include bank holding company Capital One, Walmart…

Daring Women: WEconnect CEO Daniela Luzi Tudor Says Great Leaders Are Driven by Confidence, not Their Egos

Daring Women: WEconnect CEO Daniela Luzi Tudor Says Great Leaders Are Driven by Confidence, not Their Egos

Tudor stresses that resiliency is critical to achieving your goals, a lesson she learned from her mother

Daniela Luzi Tudor, the co-founder and chief executive officer of WEconnect Health Management, began her journey into entrepreneurship in the wake of completing a 28-day treatment program for drug and alcohol addiction. After being discharged, Tudor was given a sheet of paper with a list of 10 things she needed to do every day for…

Daring Women: Hewitts Julia Nagele Leads by Emphasizing Strength and Humility

Daring Women: Hewitts Julia Nagele Leads by Emphasizing Strength and Humility

Hewitt's principal and director of design checks her ego at the door and and views criticism as an opportunity to grow

Julia Nagele watched quietly as throngs of investors and party-goers enjoyed the celebration. It was the topping-off party for The Emerald, a 40-story, 265-unit luxury-residential development near Seattles Pike Place Market slated to open next spring. Youd never know that Nagele had led the projects design team in her role as principal and director of…

Daring Women: Linda Styrk of the Puget Sound Pilots Is Used to Charting New Waters in Leadership

Daring Women: Linda Styrk of the Puget Sound Pilots Is Used to Charting New Waters in Leadership

She says the growth that comes from lived experience is what will enable future success

Linda Styrk with with Puget Sound Pilot, Andy Coe

Daring Women: Caiman Consultings Marci Marra Believes Self-awareness Is Critical to Effective Leadership

Daring Women: Caiman Consultings Marci Marra Believes Self-awareness Is Critical to Effective Leadership

She advises women pursuing leadership roles to be authentic to who you are and what you stand for

Marci Marra is a managing partner in the Seattle office of Redmond-based Caiman Consulting, a business consulting firm covering the West Coast, from Seattle to the Bay Area, with a small East Coast footprint as well. The company serves a range of clients, from startups to Fortune 500 corporations. Marra is a specialist in rapid…

Daring Women: Intertox Inc. Scientist and World-Class Mountain Bike Athlete Anne Galyean Believes in Embracing Fear

Daring Women: Intertox Inc. Scientist and World-Class Mountain Bike Athlete Anne Galyean Believes in Embracing Fear

She says fear can be a great tool in decision-making because it heightens our senses and sharpens our minds

Anne Galyean is a staff scientist and executive assistant with Intertox Inc., a Seattle-based scientific consulting firm that assesses the risks posed to public health and the environment by chemical and biological agents. Galyean has more than 11 years of laboratory research experience as well as experience coordinating multi-year projects, managing researchers and organizing collaborative…

Daring Women: Simplicity Consulting Founder Lisa Hufford Believes Leaders Must Discover Their Personal Brand

Daring Women: Simplicity Consulting Founder Lisa Hufford Believes Leaders Must Discover Their Personal Brand

She also advises that motivation, hard work and the little things matter when seeking to advance a career

Lisa Hufford has been on an amazing journey since launching her company, Simplicity Consulting, in 2006. The Kirkland-based company, which provides marketing, communications and business-operations consulting services, has worked with companies like Microsoft, Alaska Airlines, T-Mobile, Nordstrom and Amazon. Simplicity, through a team of 200 employees 70% of whom are women and an extended network…

Daring Women: Essentia Water Executive Karyn Abrahamson Strives to Be a North Star for Her Team

Daring Women: Essentia Water Executive Karyn Abrahamson Strives to Be a North Star for Her Team

Abrahamson says leaders must continue to learn, alongside everyone else every day

Karyn Abrahamson is the chief marketing officer at the bottled-water company Essentia Water. She joined the Bothell-based company in 2015 as vice president of marketing and brand innovation and was promoted to the chief marketing position three years later. Prior to joining Essentia, Abrahamsons served in executive marketing roles with Microsoft, Starbucks, T-Mobile USA and…

Daring Women: Hughes Media Law Group Founder Joleen Hughes Is a Leader Who Knows How to Rock

Daring Women: Hughes Media Law Group Founder Joleen Hughes Is a Leader Who Knows How to Rock

With guidance from some amazing female mentors, Hughes says she has learned how to better lead both men and women gracefully and with strength

Joleen Hughes is the founder and principal of Hughes Media Law Group, which was launched in 2008 and offers clients legal services across a range of areas, including strategic advising, business formation and corporate oversight, and media and entertainment. She also is the host of the The Lawyer Who Rocks podcast, which features guests ranging…

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