Title: Operations Senior Consultant

Company: Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Location: Appleton, Wisc.

With hands-on transformational mindedness and progressive growth, Betsy Haase continues in her 18^th year at Kimberly-Clark Corporation, currently as operations senior consultant. There she is responsible for creative solutions development for practical implementation of operating systems for financial profitability and customized business processing. As well, she improves the functionality for critical full cycle implementation through implementation of systems strategies and integrated methodologies. Initially, Ms. Haase became involved in this career path through a natural progression of skills and knowledge as applied to company needs and growth initiatives for innovation and new methodologies of research and development initiatives.

As a woman in today’s world, Ms. Haase feels that the strong support of her family has contributed to her success. Both parents supported her to pursue all her dream. She was taught to find ways around barriers and not to give up. She has a strong sense of giving back. She was fortunate to have a community and supportive family, friends so she gives back to the less fortunate who do not have that support. The advice Ms. Haase can share with the younger generation of women entering the workforce is, “Network early on in your career. Find mentors that you are comfortable with.”