Women to Watch: LDK Logistics' Liz Katkin
An active member of the community, Liz currently serves as Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees of Colorado Ballet, and is the author of “Conceivability”, an award-winning book on fertility.
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An active member of the community, Liz currently serves as Co-Chair of the Board of Trustees of Colorado Ballet, and is the author of “Conceivability”, an award-winning book on fertility.
Her business provides design, engineering and contract manufacturing services to the electronics and tech industry including PCB design and assembly, prototyping, full box builds, supply chain management and product fulfillment.
Karma Card Jewelry was started by a Greeley music teacher with the idea of making earrings from gift cards, beads, vinyl and other recycled materials.
Repurposing often begins with one's own waste stream. Caitlin Paul of Farmhouse Feedbags in Florissant started making a few tote bags from empty sacks of feed for her chickens in 2016.
The store opened their first location in Colorado Springs in 2015. It then expanded to open a second spot in Fort Collins a year later.
Jennifer Basch uses customers' used T-shirts from breweries and sports teams to repurpose into skirts. She once crafted a scarf from 30 ties a customer inherited from her late father.
Colorado sent nearly 10 million tons of waste to the landfill in 2017, according to the Colorado Public Interest Research Group. Meet the enterprising women are transforming that waste stream into a supply chain.
Rather than learning from books, Sinha says that the real sales education comes from from people, environment, situations, hardships and blunders.
Social media and the internet are changing the landscape for sales professionals, she says. "But I feel that it has impacted me the most in holding our team and myself accountable to deliver the best customer experience we can.”
She now leads the Federal Civilian Scientific team at Cisco Systems, which is responsible for $250 million in business. The team is made up of 10 sales professionals, nine systems engineers and 20 integrated team members across Cisco.
When Browning founded her first company in 1985, The Browning Group, “Female entrepreneurs in Colorado were few and far between,” she says.
Culture eats strategy, as evidenced by Comparably's annual list of Best Companies for Women to Work.
In a time when women supporting women is a topic at the forefront of organizations and social movements alike, how much of the preaching is practiced?
There’s plenty of progress to be made, but females seem to be paving the way one leader at a time.
The Downtown Denver Partnership focuses on bringing the right people to the table at the right time to make an impact.
Colorado is nearly last in the nation for number of women on publicly traded boards of directors.
The 2018 Women to Watch, Ronica Kirwin, owner of Moxie Med Spa builds bonds and business.
WholeMade® evolved from SALUS®, a handcrafted bath and body care company founded in 2004 by Elissa Klaver.
Since selling on Amazon Handmade, she has seen an increase in her business, especially around the holidays.
At Ginball Digital Marketing, the goal is to double the revenue of 2,000 businesses using digital marketing and social media in the next five years.
Through their daily actions and achievements they set a precedent of possibilities for the next generation of women in business to build upon.
With 20 years of developing potential in leaders and building cohesiveness on teams, Tara Powers has a few tips to share about sustainable success.
For 10.10.10's fifth program and for the first time in its history, the number of female entrepreneurs participating will outnumber male entrepreneurs.
These 10 inductees become the next group of extraordinary contemporary and historical women with significant ties to Colorado.