Matt Colligan isn’t a psychiatrist, but he is an expert at dealing with people. As the division manager for Champion Windows of Colorado Springs, Colligan works with a variety of people — from sales managers to contract installers — during the course of a normal day at work. He relies on a strong customer service [...]
Continue reading …By fifth grade, while living in Japan, James M. Stewart knew he would join the Air Force and fly helicopters. But Stewart actually “fell in love with airplanes and speed” during his training, and ended up flying fighters — including F-4 Phantoms during the Vietnam War — throughout his 23-year Air Force career, before retiring [...]
Continue reading …Michael S. Koren grew up behind the Iron Curtain in Minsk, Belarus. After a childhood spent living under communism, he said he found self-determination when the Berlin Wall fell. He also found education — and his life’s work — in Belarus and in the United States. After graduating from medical school in his native country, [...]
Continue reading …Shawnee Huckstep started TechWise eight years ago in Colorado Springs as an IT training company. Within a few years, she had to refocus and restructure the company, while struggling to pay down $1 million in debt. Today, the company is vibrant and debt-free, with a dramatically different focus. “We used to teach people how to [...]
Continue reading …From an early career with the Ford Motor Co. to today’s role as head of a national advertising and marketing agency, Kirk Oleson has mastered the art of results-oriented communication. The upbeat CEO expects to not only weather the current economic storm, but to increase Graham Advertising’s market share nationally and in the Pikes Peak [...]
Continue reading …By age 5, Jean Sebben could “space-plan” and organize her brother’s snowball forts and tree houses. By eighth grade, Sebben knew she’d be a designer. These days, she eyeballs a space, immediately knowing how to improve the matrix and layout to benefit the people who work or live there — from dormitories to hospitals to [...]
Continue reading …Florida native Wynne Palermo moved to Colorado Springs during 1979. She experienced quick success as a real estate agent, and founded her own firm, Wynne Realty, six years later. She serves on the board of the Colorado Association of Realtors, and has been locally recognized as the Realtor of the Year. Palermo is serving a [...]
Continue reading …After growing up playing streetball and fighting neighborhood grass fires with brooms, being accepted to graduate school changed Thomas Duening’s life. Although he could out-jump his college teammates and dunk two-handed, these days he uses his highly analytical mind to study the theories of economics. Duening is fascinated by economic conditions and how wealth is [...]
Continue reading …People tend to look up when they talk to Mike Jorgensen of Red Noland Cadillac. The 6-foot, 7-inch auto dealer moved to Colorado Springs with his family during 1961 and returned to the area after graduating from college. Today his company is ranked among the nation’s top 100 Cadillac dealerships, but Jorgensen says credit for [...]
Continue reading …Lynne Telford joined Pikes Peak United Way during 2000 as chief financial officer after more than 25 years in corporate America. After taking a few months off from a job at a local high-tech company, she decided to import her financial management experience into a nonprofit setting — and has never looked back. Telford has [...]
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