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Erik Ott and Joyce Hankins have spent nearly three decades helping Carolina Health Specialists build something increasingly rare in modern healthcare: a large, independent, physician-owned practice that competes effectively with hospital systems while protecting autonomy, efficiency, and access to care. As CFO and COO, they jointly lead the organization without a CEO, relying on a […]

Erica Seabaugh did not plan to build an 18-year career at a single organization, yet her professional life has unfolded alongside the growth and reinvention of CICOA Aging & In-Home Solutions, where she now serves as chief operating officer. What began as a frontline social work role has evolved into executive leadership shaped by operational […]

When a company commits to raising the industry bar, change is often incremental, requiring patience and tenacity. So it goes for security solutions visionary GardaWorld, the Canada-headquartered global firm responsible for the protection of people, property and assets across a wide range of environments. Security services are designed to mitigate risk, and hospital environments are […]

When Emma Horgan joined Questrade Financial Group in February 2017, remote work and hybrid schedules weren’t a part of the fintech’s vernacular, let alone its operations. However, Horgan, the chief people officer, says the COVID-19 pandemic is one of the factors that’s changed how the fintech operates—and solutions put in place, such as remote and […]

Texas schools are facing a significant teacher shortage, with educators leaving the profession in droves and 77 percent of those who remain saying they’re considering changing careers, according to the Houston Chronicle. Headlines like these are what keep Emre Altun up at night. As chief human resources officer at Harmony Public Schools, a Houston-based charter […]

When Elaine Ubakanma immigrated from Jamaica to the U.S., she was a little over 16, and her father abandoned her less than three months after she arrived. Years later, in 1989, she got a job with H. J. Russell & Company as a secretary. “I wanted to receive higher education, of course, but the cost […]

It’s the kind of question Ellen Ochoa has heard more times than she can count, from fans, press and peers alike: When you first flew into space, saw the earth looming like a huge swirling marble below, more removed from life than you’d ever been before, what did you think about? Those expecting some stirring […]

Growing up in Arvin, California, a modest town of 21,000 about 100 miles north of Los Angeles, Elia Quintana remembers driving past the hundreds of oil fields that dot the arid hills of nearby Bakersfield, their beams and heads bobbing like giraffes at a waterhole. To her, they were as much a part of the […]

Halfway through her nursing training, back when she still had designs on entering the profession, Carmen Wakeling was called upon to administer to a patient whose daily regimen involved 16 different medications. Oh, if only that man had followed the sound advice of including five servings of fresh vegetables or fruits into his daily diet, […]

His professional responsibility may be sustaining generational wealth, but that doesn’t curb Eric D. Bailey’s commitment to those not sharing in the prosperity. Indeed, the distinguished founder of Bailey Wealth Advisors in Silver Spring, Maryland, is as comfortable interacting with quasi-governmental agencies, community groups, fraternal organizations and churches in aiding the less fortunate, as he […]