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Nick Hill: The Floor, First
He started as Cottage Support Staff at Bethany Children's Home, then carried the work through the programs until the board named him President and Chief Executive Officer.
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Katie Holmes: Branding with Heart
Owners who had already built the business still could not get the brand to match it. Katie Holmes built Brand Studio Creative so the work starts with the person, then the mark.
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James Espey: Sixty Years Behind the World's Back Bar
Baileys remade, Malibu invented, Blue Label built, and a hundred-million-dollar demand that became five million cases of Chivas a year. The man who poured the modern drinks trade, at eighty-three, is still laying down stock.
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Joan Gillman: Forty-Four Years of Making Room for Wonder
From a blackboard at St. Angela Merici in 1982 to a SmartBoard at The Browning School, the science teacher who never changed the subject — only the tools.
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Dr. Nichole Pettway: Where You Have Been Does Not Decide Where You Are Going
Trauma, addiction, incarceration — then the table where decisions are made. The Deputy Director at BOSS California on lived experience as professional expertise.
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Kohila Sivas: Readiness Before Performance
Why do capable people stay stuck? The founder of Wholistic SuccessCodes built two decades of coaching on a single order of operations — and a question the systems around her never asked.
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Pallavi Pande: Twenty Million Plates Later
Banana leaves at home in India, a party sink in Portland, and ten years of supply chain in between. How a question that refused to drain away became DTOCS — and twenty million single-use pieces taken off the table.