Kristin Glazner has guided initiatives at Wabash that helped the company increase workforce diversity, with 66% of hourly hires and 47% of salaried hires in 2023 being women and/or minorities.
As race engineer at Arrow McLaren, Kate Gundlach oversees race cars’ performance, with the goal of being the fastest car in the field in qualifying and finishing first.
Lee Ann Kwiatkowski is dean and vice president of the Klipsch Educators College at Marian University, and she also oversees the school’s K-12 outreach through the Center for Vibrant Schools.
Gina Miller joined the Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership as CEO in 2022 at a time when construction costs, housing prices and mortgage rates were all skyrocketing.
Dr. Jennifer Satterfield-Siegel, who has been a pediatric dentist for 32 years, specializes in care for infants with cleft lip and cleft palates or with craniofacial conditions.
Terry Stigdon has been a nurse volunteer with the Red Cross since September 2005 (because of Hurricane Katrina) and CEO of the Indiana Region for 2-1/2 years.
In eight years with the Madam Walker Legacy Center—four as board member and four as president and CEO—Kristian Stricklen has helped lead the organization into a new era of stability, visibility and cultural impact.
Beth Tharp was promoted to senior vice president, president of hospital services and network chief nurse officer at Community Health Network in February 2022.
Deborah Tobias is a member of the Indiana University Health Foundation, and she and her husband committed to a $10 million estate gift to help create the Tobias-Lechleiter Institute for Clinical Innovation at IU Health.
Eunice Trotter spent much of her career in journalism, but her role today is to uncover, document, preserve or restore and share Indiana Black history and heritage for Indiana Landmarks.
Since 2010, Alonya Yakovleva has built Indiana Ballet Conservatory from the ground up, establishing it as “an elite and highly respected training ground for both serious-minded ballet students and recreational dancers alike.”
“I would venture to say that every Woman of Influence—from the past through the current class—will tell you that there’s been a moment of weakness, that they’ve cried their selves to sleep, that there is a time when it was frustrating and it didn’t work,” said Mentorship Award winner Anne Hathaway. “And I know I still go through that.”
Indianapolis-based Roche Diagnostics said while the survey was conducted in Europe, its implications are global and reflect challenges in the United States.
