I like to say that Winston Churchill had a mother -- and I admire her.

I love watching as my own children carve out success, on their own terms. The risks my children are willing to take reflect my devotion to their development.

I think it was being their mom that naturally led me to a ten-year career as a corporate talent specialist for a Ecolab, a company that has long been among the 100 most ethical companies in the world.

These days I have moved on. Still with Ecolab, I am a Sr. Business Systems Analyst and leading projects for Human Resources as Ecolab prepares to be a twenty billion dollar company by 2020.

I am a passionate professional, excited to go to work everyday because I have a service dog that assists me. When we are not working, we enjoy long distance running and writing (Sadie sleeps, I write).