By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
After 25 years at Harvard University, where she taught business and public health, Barrett left academia to start a foundation called the Fledgling Fund. Barrett says she made the decision to switch careers the day after 9/11. She was teaching a class about Martin...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
In 1986, after years as a respected psychotherapist, Gerald Gray was stunned when one client, a refugee, recounted a harrowing story of seeing a photo at a friend’s house of a man who had tortured him. Gray was shocked to learn that torturers and other human...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Ronne Froman’s transition from military to civilian life was relatively easy. The first woman to command the six-state southwest region of the U.S. Navy, she retired as a rear admiral in 2001 after a 31-year naval career. Then she quickly took on a series of executive...
By Gary Hume | Apr 26, 2023
Linda Johnson didn’t want to be another statistic. After retiring at age 60 in 2007 with 39 years of service in education – including 22 as an elementary school principal – Johnson struggled to reduce her adjustable rate mortgage from nearly 12...