Sheila Harvey

Title: Sales Executive
Company: Korson & Edgewood Furniture
Location: Kitchener, ON Canada

Sheila Harvey was young when she first started as a creative artist, and now, more than three decades later, she has grown and transitioned to the role of sales executive at Korson & Edgewood Furniture.  Her position includes servicing independent furniture stores and working with stagers and model home professionals. Ms. Harvey’s favorite part of her job is working with her clients; there are so many interesting and creative people in the industry. Over time, she has become very intuitive with regards to her customers’ visions, and knows exactly how to serve their individual needs.

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Colleen M. DeShazer

Title: Permitting Manager
Company: Mobilite
Location: Warren, OR United States

Aided by strengths in community development and public awareness, Colleen DeShazer joined Mobilite in February 2016. The telecommunications business works with venues and wireless carriers to ensure their customers are better connected. They are a global provider of complete wireless solutions, and they build, design and operate networks and infrastructure to deliver optimal coverage. As the company’s permitting manager, Ms. DeShazer is responsible for federal, state, and railroad permitting, as well as public speaking and community development.

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Candice Carter-Oliver, Ph.D.

Carter-Oliver, CandiceTitle: Assistant Superintendent
Company: Normandy Schools Collaborative
Location: St. Louis, MO United States

Candice Carter-Oliver comes from a long line of strong women in education, from her mother to her aunt to her grandmother. As a committed educational leader with a record of success in leading schools to academic excellence, she continues to follow in their footsteps. Dr. Carter-Oliver currently serves as the assistant superintendent of the Normandy Schools Collaborative, where her responsibilities relate to improving curricular career pathways and college-level course offerings, increasing achievement, and fostering positive relationships within the school and the community. She has certainly lived up to expectations, and some of her accomplishments include increasing the advanced placement and honors course offerings for high school 7th to 12th graders by 50 percent in one year, and increasing the annual performance report from 7 percent to 30 percent in one year, constituting the highest number of points earned in the last three years, as per the Missouri School Improvement Program Cycle 5.

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Christine Pizzulli

Pizzulli, ChristineTitle: Director of Clinical Operations
Company: UCLA Health
Location: Pacific Palisades, CA United States

With a personal interest in the profession and a desire to do work that is meaningful to her, Christine Pizzulli joined the health care industry in 1978. She has always had a passion for helping people on the front line, as well as learning and implementing the business acumen that she has obtained throughout her career. As the director of clinical operations at UCLA Health, Ms. Pizzulli is able to do just that.

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Margaret Hearn

Hern, MargaretTitle: Teacher
Company: Lakeview Child Care Center
Location: East Windsor, NJ United States

Following a long career in public school system, Margaret Hearn joined Lakeview Child Care Center. The goal of the facility is to provide a hands-on environment to stimulate creativity and discovery. Children are encouraged to be active and responsible, and are guided on their quest to gain independence, decision-making skills and a love for learning. As a teacher at the center, Ms. Hearn is responsible for teaching children ranging from 6 months to 5 years old social skills, letters, numbers, shapes, and their addresses and phone numbers. She is very open-minded, and is always looking for new ways to reach her students.

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