Attorney and certified public accountant Gayle Acton managed her midlife crisis pretty well nearly eight years ago: she became a veterinarian. Read more

Jennifer Gooden graduated from Harvard. Read more

Stephanie Hill and Dewey Beene have sat around more bridal shows than they can count. Taking down names and numbers and handing out business cards at these events had become habit. Read more

Listening devices, mysterious cash payments and multimillion-dollar corporations hemorrhaging money while company executives publicly battle with their boards of directors. Read more

Susan McCalmont’s educational background is in art history. In her business life, she has lobbied on Capitol Hill. Now, after 19 years as the executive director of the Kirkpatrick Foundation, McCalmont is taking her unique skill set to Creative Oklahoma as its first president. Read more

Jim Gleason started in the sign industry when he was 12 years old, sweeping the floors in his dad’s sign shop in Salina, Kan. He worked for his father for 18 years at Gleason and Sons Signs before eventually coming to the metro area. Read more

A $6.7 billion economic impact. Some 51,000 jobs spread over an 11-county Central Oklahoma area. When it comes to the economy, the bioscience industry has established itself as a major player in the metro. Read more

On an unseasonably cold and blustery day in mid-May, Chester Whiteman looked out his office window in Concho and grinned ear-to-ear. Read more

City planners have long understood that without water, there are no cities.
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As heads of their respective associations, Roy Lindsey and Scott Dewald can argue all day whether pork or beef should be what’s for dinner. Read more

Some people take chamber of commerce jobs for the prestige. Others take them as stepping stones for their future. Read more

In the travel industry for 27 years now, Express Travel consultant Ann West says she’s always been one to try different marketing techniques to attract clients.
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When leaders from the U.S., Canada and Mexico convened in 1992 to sign the North American Free Trade Agreement, local pork producers figured trade opportunities soon would expand. Eighteen years later, they’re still waiting. Read more

If real estate is all about location, then new Oklahoma Association of Realtors CEO Lisa G. Noon says she and the 8,500 Realtors she now leads are in the perfect spot. Read more

As a Mid-America Christian University student, Kristi Hayes knew her future would be in ministry. But little did the Skyline Church youth pastor know that years later she would be an international retailer whose goal was to educate the world — one child at a time. Read more